4 March – The
BBC Television Service broadcasts one of the first plays to be written especially for television, Condemned To Be Shot by R. E. J. Brooke. The production is notable for the use of a camera as the first-person perspective of the play's unseen central character.
27 March – The BBC Television Service broadcasts the entirety of Magyar Melody live from
His Majesty's Theatre, London. The 175-minute broadcast is the first showing of a full-length
musical on television.
April
No events.
May
May – The BBC Television Service broadcasts the entirety of the musical Me and My Girl live from the
Victoria Palace Theatre, London; it is rebroadcast in July.
June
No events.
July
8 July – The BBC Television has no more coverage of Wimbledon until 1946.
31 August – 18,999 television sets have been sold in Britain before manufacture stops during
World War II.
September
1 September – The anticipated outbreak of
World War II brings television broadcasting at the
BBC Television Service to an end at 12:35pm after the broadcast of a
Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickey's Gala Premier and various sound and vision test signals. It is feared that the
VHF waves of television would act as a perfect homing signal for guiding enemy bombers to central London: in any case, the engineers of the television service would be needed for the war effort, particularly for
radar. The BBC Television Service will resume its broadcasting with the same Mickey Mouse cartoon after the war in
1946.
October to December
No television is broadcast for the remainder of the War.
Date unknown
Future presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter
Bruce Forsyth makes his first on-screen appearance at the age of eleven on the BBC talent show Come and be televised.[1]
4 March – The
BBC Television Service broadcasts one of the first plays to be written especially for television, Condemned To Be Shot by R. E. J. Brooke. The production is notable for the use of a camera as the first-person perspective of the play's unseen central character.
27 March – The BBC Television Service broadcasts the entirety of Magyar Melody live from
His Majesty's Theatre, London. The 175-minute broadcast is the first showing of a full-length
musical on television.
April
No events.
May
May – The BBC Television Service broadcasts the entirety of the musical Me and My Girl live from the
Victoria Palace Theatre, London; it is rebroadcast in July.
June
No events.
July
8 July – The BBC Television has no more coverage of Wimbledon until 1946.
31 August – 18,999 television sets have been sold in Britain before manufacture stops during
World War II.
September
1 September – The anticipated outbreak of
World War II brings television broadcasting at the
BBC Television Service to an end at 12:35pm after the broadcast of a
Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickey's Gala Premier and various sound and vision test signals. It is feared that the
VHF waves of television would act as a perfect homing signal for guiding enemy bombers to central London: in any case, the engineers of the television service would be needed for the war effort, particularly for
radar. The BBC Television Service will resume its broadcasting with the same Mickey Mouse cartoon after the war in
1946.
October to December
No television is broadcast for the remainder of the War.
Date unknown
Future presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter
Bruce Forsyth makes his first on-screen appearance at the age of eleven on the BBC talent show Come and be televised.[1]