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.
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.
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.
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]