This is a list of British television related events from 1946. British television broadcasts resumed this year. They had been suspended during World War II, for fear that the signals would help German bombers. Events January – May No events. June 1 June – The first television licence is introduced in the United Kingdom, costing £2. 7 June – The BBC Television Service begins broadcasting again. The first words heard are "Good afternoon everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh?". The Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Gala Premier that had been the last programme transmitted seven years earlier at the start of World War II, is reshown after Bligh's introduction. June – BBC Wimbledon returns. It was the longest running pre-war programme since it debuted in 1927. It brings back the longest tennis tournament after the end of World War II and the reintroduction of the BBC Television Service. July 7 July – The BBC's children's programme For the Children returns, one of the few pre-war programmes to resume after the reintroduction of the BBC Television Service. August 4 August – Children's puppet Muffin the Mule makes his first appearance in an episode of For The Children. He is so popular he is given his own show later in the year on a new service Watch with Mother. September No events. October 19 October – The first live televised post-war football match is broadcast by the BBC. Twenty minutes of Barnet's home game against Wealdstone were televised in the first half and thirty five minutes of the second half before it became too dark. 22 October – Telecrime, the first television crime series from the 1930s, returns for the final run on the BBC Television Service, retitled Telecrimes. November 29 November – Pinwright's Progress, British television's first sitcom, is broadcast for the first time on the BBC Television Service. December 31 December – The BBC ends the day's television broadcasting with Seeing the New Year In. Debuts 5 May – Rory The Tiger and Friend (1939-1965, 1974-1981) 7 June – The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (1946) 2 July – Jeannie (1946) 7 July – Frieda (1946) 21 July – The Shop at Sly Corner (1946) 4 August – Muffin the Mule (1946–1955, 2005–2006) 9 August – The Playboy of the Western World (1946) 20 August – The Man with the Cloak Full of Holes (1946) 27 August