Pepinot and Capucine

Pepinot and Capucine (French title, Pépinot et Capucine) was a Canadian children's television series which aired on Radio-Canada from 1952 to 1954, and on the English CBC Television from 1954 to 1955.

Pepinot and Capucine
Also known as	Pépinot et Capucine
Genre	children's puppetry
Written by	Reginald Boisvert
Composer	Neil Chotem
Country of origin	Canada
Original languages	French English
No. of seasons	1
Production
Producer	Jean-Paul Ladouceur
Production location	Montreal
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	Radio-Canada CBC Television
Release	7 September 1952 (1952-09-07) – 19 June 1955 (1955-06-19)

Premise

This series was produced at Radio-Canada's Montreal studios. The title characters were the puppets Pepinot and his sister Capucine. Other regular characters included Mr. Black, a pet bear, known as l'Ours in French. Mr. White, an inventor, was known on the French series as Monsieur Blanc.^[1]

Scheduling

The series was broadcast on Radio-Canada since 7 September 1952 until 1954. After this, the series was simply titled Pépinot which was produced in several runs until 1972. Episodes continued to be rebroadcast through mid-1973.^[2]

The half-hour English version appeared on CBC Television on Sundays at 5:30 p.m. in two seasons, first from 3 January to 27 June 1954 and secondly from 19 September 1954 to 19 June 1955.

See also

• Jeanne Auclair, artist who created puppets used on the show