The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988 TV serial) the four Pevensie children have arrived in Narnia, she will stop at nothing to prevent them from fulfilling this prophecy. However, the Great Lion Aslan is on the move to help the four children to save Narnia. Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are siblings who are sent to live with Professor Digory Kirke in the country side during World War 2. Whilst exploring the house one day, Lucy who is the youngest discovers a mysterious wardrobe and on entering it, finds herself in the middle of a snowy wood with a lamp post. She encounters a faun who introduces
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe ever". He stated that "nothing is more fun to write" than the Doctor at Christmas, as he considered it "his kind of day. Everything's bright and shiny, everybody's having a laugh, and nobody minds if you wear a really stupid hat". The story is partly inspired by "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (from "The Chronicles of Narnia") by C. S. Lewis. Moffat said that "Doctor Who" and the Narnia stories "come from the same impulse that children have of escaping to another world." The scene in which the Doctor is showing the Arwells around the house originally included