I think it was on my local PBS channel that I first watched the BBC series in 1988 when the series was first broadcast.  A few years later on a rebroadcast I taped it with a VCR and a few years after that I bought the professionally made tapes. I watched each of the three series (they were broadcast as three long movies here in the U. S.)  a few months after they first were completed. There were two DVD sets that I owned and the newer one had more bonus features.  I still have those sets.  I was much more pleased with BBC production than the 1979 cartoon since it had real people and not some animation that looked like the 1970’s. I didn’t care that much if the special effects were low budget, and I actually liked the puppet that was used for Aslan.

What was your first impression of the BBC Narnia and did you like it on the first viewing?