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 Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Davies and Yolande Brown. In 2011, a two-actor stage adaptation by Le Clanché du Rand opened Off-Broadway in New York City at St. Luke's Theatre. The production was directed by Julia Beardsley O'Brien and starred Erin Layton and Andrew Fortman. As of 2014, the production is currently running with a replacement cast of Abigail Taylor-Sansom and Rockford Sansom. In 2012 Michael Fentiman with Rupert Goold co-directed "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" at a Threesixty 'tented production' in Kensington Gardens, London. It received a "Guardian" three star review. Multiple audio editions have been released, both straightforward readings and dramatizations.