The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979 film) video. The CBS program had 37 million viewers. It would win an Emmy Award. The only actor to appear in both versions was Stephen Thorne (who portrayed Aslan). The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979 film) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is an animated television film that was broadcast on CBS in 1979, based on the novel of the same name by C. S. Lewis. When four children Lucy, Susan, Edmund and Peter stumble into an old Wardrobe they find themselves in a magical land called Narnia with talking animals, fauns, hags, the Wicked White Witch and
The Lyin', the Watch and the Wardrobe The Lyin', the Watch and the Wardrobe "The Lyin', the Watch and the Wardrobe" is an episode from the dramedy series "Ugly Betty", which aired on October 26, 2006. Internationally, it is the sixth episode overall, but in the United States and Australia it aired as the fifth due to the delayed airing of "Swag." The episode name is a play on words of the novel and subsequent film titled "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" in the "Chronicles of Narnia" series, which incidentally was produced by The Walt Disney Company, the parent company of "Ugly Betty"s co-producers, ABC