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.
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?". Twenty minutes later, the Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Gala Premiere that had been the last programme transmitted seven years earlier at the start of World War II, is reshown.
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.
4 August – Children's puppet "Muffin the Mule" debuts 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.
22 October – Telecrime, the first television crime series from the 1930s, returns for the final run on the BBC Television Service, retitled Telecrimes.
29 November – Pinwright's Progress, British television's first sitcom, debuts on the BBC Television Service.
4 August – Muffin the Mule (1946–1955, 2005–2006)
2 November – Kaleidoscope (1946–1953)
29 November – Pinwright's Progress (1946–1947)
Picture Page (1936–1939, 1946–1952).
For the Children (1937–1939, 1946–1950)
Telecrime (1938–1939, 1946)
Telecrime (1938–1939, 1946)
1 February – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress, Doctor Who (died 2011)
5 February – Charlotte Rampling, English actress
7 February – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (died 2011)
16 February – Ian Lavender, actor
18 February – Michael Buerk, journalist and news presenter
20 February – Brenda Blethyn, English actress
21 February – Alan Rickman, English actor (died 2016)
21 March – Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor
28 March – Tricia Ingrams, journalist and television presenter (died 1996)
5 April – Jane Asher, actress
11 April – Bob Harris, radio and television presenter
18 April – Hayley Mills, actress
19 April – Tim Curry, English actor, vocalist, and composer
May – Jock Brown, football commentator
1 May – Joanna Lumley, actress
10 May – Maureen Lipman, actress, columnist and comedian
15 June – Noddy Holder, English singer (Slade)
5 July – Gwyneth Powell, English actress
14 July – Sue Lawley, broadcaster
19 September – Michael Elphick, actor (died 2002)
25 September – Felicity Kendal, actress
28 September – Helen Shapiro, singer and actor
29 September – Patricia Hodge, English actress
10 October – Chris Tarrant, broadcaster and television presenter
14 October – Katy Manning, English actress
17 October – Vicki Hodge, English actress
22 October – Kelvin MacKenzie, media executive
31 October – Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor
18 November – Andrea Allan, Scottish actress
20 December – Lesley Judd, English actress and television presenter
27 December – Janet Street-Porter, English broadcast journalist
14 June – John Logie Baird, 57, engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system.
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