 This cartoon was the last thing to be broadcast on BBC television on  1 September 1939, two days before the United Kingdom declared war on  Germany. It was thought that the VHF signal from the broadcast would  serve as a homing beacon for the enemy planes closing in on London.  This cartoon was also the first thing broadcast when BBC television  resumed broadcasting on 7 June 1946. The continuity announcer,  Jasmine Bligh (qv), introduced the cartoon by saying, "Now then,  as we were saying before we were so rudely interrupted."