It was adapted by Snoopy and Charlie Brown animator Bill Melendez.

[1] When the Pevensie Children Lucy, Susan, Edmund, and Peter go to Professor Kirke's mansion due to the air raids of World War 2, they stumble into an old wardrobe which transports them to a magical land called Narnia with talking animals, fauns, hags, the oppressive White Witch and the great lion Aslan.

There they meet the friendly Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, who help them on their quest to find Aslan the great lion.

Dr. Ted Baehr was elected President of the Episcopal Radio TV Foundation as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was preparing to be broadcast by CBS, and he supervised the distribution of the subsequent video.

The CBS program had 37 million viewers and won two Emmy Awards.