The Chronicles of Narnia (TV serial)
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| Created by | C. S. Lewis (novel) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 18 |
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25–30 min per each episode 505 min total for series (estimate) |
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| Original network | BBC |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Original release | 13 November 1988 – 23 December 1990 |
25–30 min per each episode
The Chronicles of Narnia is a BBC-produced television serial that was aired from 13 November 1988 to 23 December 1990 and is based on four books of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series. The first series aired was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1988, the second series aired was Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 1989 and the third series aired was The Silver Chair in 1990. This television serial was produced by Paul Stone and teleplayed by Alan Seymour. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was directed by Marilyn Fox, while Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair were directed by Alex Kirby.
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are siblings who are evacuated from London in 1940, and sent to the countryside to stay with Professor Digory Kirke because of the air raids in World War II.
Soon after arriving at the Professor's house, the four children are exploring when Lucy enters a wardrobe in a spare room and finds herself in the middle of a snowy wood. She meets a faun named Mr. Tumnus, who explains that she is in the land of Narnia. He invites her back to his cave for tea, and tells her stories about what life was once like in Narnia, until it became an "endless winter". He then plays his flute and Lucy goes to sleep, but when she wakes up Tumnus is crying and he confesses that he is in the pay of the White Witch, who rules over Narnia and makes it "always winter and never Christmas". She had ordered him and all the other Narnians that if they ever saw a Son of Adam or Daughter of Eve in Narnia, they were to catch them and hand them over to her, but Tumnus realises that he cannot go through with it and he walks back to the lamp-post with Lucy to make sure she returns safely to her own world.
When Lucy returns to her siblings, they do not believe her story about Narnia, especially because Lucy claims to have been gone for hours, while for her siblings no time has passed. Edmund is particularly cruel to her.
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