Nic and Pic () is a Canadian children's television show, which aired during the 1970s.Peter Kenter and Martin W. Levin, TV North: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Canadian Television. Whitecap Books, 2001. . p. 119. Its stories revolved around the adventures of puppet mice Nic and Pic as they travelled around the world in a hot air balloon.Television/Radio Age, Volume 27. Television Editorial Corporation, 1980. p. 123.
The series aired in French on Télévision de Radio-Canada from 1972 to 1977,Dictionnaire des artistes du théâtre québécois. Québec-Amérique, 2008. . Entry "Pierre Régimbald", p. 1990. and a dubbed English version aired on CBC Television from 1975 to 1977.
The French version was voiced by Jocelyne Goyette as Nic and Louise Matteau as Pic, while the English version was voiced by Joan Stuart as Nic and Madeleine Kronby as Pic. The puppeteers were Pierre Régimbald and Michel Fréchette.
The series was spun off to a number of children's books, written by Michel Cailloux and illustrated by Claude Poirier and Serge Wilson.Françoise Lepage, La littérature pour la jeunesse, 1970-2000. Les Editions Fides, 2003. . p. 326. The puppets also hosted the first francophone broadcast of the Toronto Santa Claus Parade in 1973.Steve Penfold, A Mile of Make-Believe: A History of the Eaton's Santa Claus Parade. University of Toronto Press, 2016. .
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