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The married couple Maritie (December 12, 1922 – November 23, 2002) and Gilbert (March 20, 1920 – September 18, 2000) Carpentier were producers of very popular TV shows in France and in many French-speaking countries, from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Carpentier, born in 1920, is the grandson of the French inventor Jules Carpentier (manufacturer, with the Lumière brothers, of the first cinematographe device) and the French acoustician Gustave Lyon. Alumni from the Conservatoire de Paris, he is a pianist, organist and composer.

Just after World War II, Gilbert Carpentier starts working at the French radio Radio-Luxembourg (which will later become RTL) as an orderly, before becoming a radio technician. From 1946, he composes musical illustrations, then, with the help of his wife who writes the texts, they start to produce radio soaps. From the 1950s, Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier realize popular radio shows in France. On Radio-Luxembourg, they host six shows : "L’heure musicale", "Le Club des Vedettes", (presented by Maurice Biraud), "Musique à la Clay" (presented by Philippe Clay), "Les contes de l’aigle", "L’heure exquise" (presented by Anne-Marie Carrière) and "Le miroir aux Etoiles" presented every Sunday by a different artist.

In 1957, they create a Babar disc series for the children. Maritie Carpentier adapts the texts from Jean de Brunhoff while Gilbert Carpentier composes the musics. Those discs were awarded the Grand prix du disque in 1957 from the Académie Charles Cros, the French equivalent of the US Recording Academy.

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