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
Adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia Fox and Walden Media co-produced "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", released in December 2010. A fourth film, "The Silver Chair", is currently in the works, with the Mark Gordon Company producing. On October 3, 2018, the C.S. Lewis Company announced that Netflix had acquired the rights to new film and television series adaptations of the Narnia books. The Chronicles of Narnia are all available on audiobook, read by Andrew Sachs. These were published by Chivers Children's' Audio Books. In 1979, Caedmon Records released abridged versions of all seven books on records and cassettes, read by