For those of you who don’t know, the BBC and Wonderworks released the LWW, PC / VDT, and SC in serial form on TV. LWW and SC were divided into three parts of roughly 1 hour each. PC was only one segment but was released with VDT to make a set of three (VDT thus being two segments).

The serials were actually made as 30-minute episodes.
LWW had 6 (plus a wonderful 30-min introduction, all of which I have on video from the original showing on BBC television), PC/VDT had six (two for PC, four for VDT), and SC had 6.

Oops. I guess I should have done a little more research. I assumed that since the ones I have taped off of TV were done in hour long segments they were done in hour long segments everywhere.

Actually there are versions with the serpent AND versions without. The DVD versions I got have the serpent scene in them, but the VHS versions I had previously did not.

The scene with the kids at the beach in LWW wasn't included in the VHS versions I saw. It went straight from the coronation to the adults in the woods.

Weird.....we have the VHS and it has those scenes. Was there more than one VHS release?

There must have been more than one release. Time for people to check their VHS for version info (company? a date perhaps, maybe pictures on covers?). I have never seen the (any of the?) VHS version(s). We recorded them off of the TV. I hadn't seen the beach scene until I got the DVDs. I'm going to go back through the versions we taped and my DVD versions and look for differences. I know in SC one of my versions has one part of the "evidence" they give LotGK and the other one has a different part. One has the lamp / sun and the other has something different. I can't remember exactly what. I wonder if the difference has to do with BBC vs. Wonderworks or US vs England.
*scurries off to find video tapes*

The BBC version of Prince Caspian/Voyage of the Dawn Treader that did not have the sea serpant was from VHS at my library. It was about 8 years ago so I don't think they have it anymore.

I voted "I haven't seen them," though that's kind of untrue. The only one that I've seen the whole thing of was LWW, which I saw in my fourth-grade class right after we read the book. I don't remember much except the fact that Lucy wasn't how I imagined her and that I didn't like the White Witch's "reindeer" (horses with fake antlers --humph ).
But I do like the BBC version of the White Witch better.
Since I haven't seen the others, I can't really say anything about them.

The BBC version of Prince Caspian/Voyage of the Dawn Treader that did not have the sea serpant was from VHS at my library. It was about 8 years ago so I don't think they have it anymore.

No problem. I don't want anybody to go to a lot of trouble. So, if the information is handy people can go ahead and post it. If it isn't handy, don't worry about it.

My first experience with Narnia was getting those from the library. I was pretty young, so I didn't really pay attention to things like special effects and acting, I just liked the sword fights. I remember I hated Reepicheep(must have the cotume or something) and the whole Silver Chair episode(I think it may have been because of Puddleglum. Remember, I was young). I haven't seen 'em in years, but looking back on what I remember, I'd probably think they were hilariously bad today. I'm sorry, I just can't get over the talking animal costumes.

That's odd, because The Silver Chair is easily the best done of the lot (although none of them are particularly exciting).

I voted "I like them". I first saw the BBC versions soon after I first read the books, when I was very young. I basically grew up with them, like many have said. When I watch them now, I can't help laughing at the terrible acting - to me that's the worst part, because I can live with bad graphics any day if the acting is good. Still, while their a bit silly, I have a fondness for them. I watched the Prince Caspian version several times while waiting for PC movie to come out; I'll probably do the same with VDT as it gets closer to release.

I've been watching the BBC Narnia films for as long as I can remember! I absolutely loved them (When I got over being scared of the white witch). LWW was my favorite. But I loved the others as well. In fact, I loved them so much that when I heard there was going to be a new Narnia movie made, I was skeptical and pretty much thought it would be an epic fail!
Contrary to my foolish beliefs I now LOVE the new films too! I know they are better made then the BBC and the new Lucy is miles better(The old Lucy was my worst part about the old ones.) I still like the BBC versions a lot for sentimental reasons and for the way they stayed ultra faithful to the books. But overall I guess I have to say the new ones are better. But I'm not condemning the BBC or leaving them in the dust becuase I surely like them as well! You don't have to convince me twice to sit down and watch them.

I loved the BBC series when I was little, but as soon as I reached the age of 11 or 12 I began to become disappointed in it. Probably because the effects weren't that great compared with what we're used to now, and when I grew older I lost my suspension of disbelief.

Some other reasons I am not really fond of it anymore are that it was shot in Video format instead of Film, which basically means it looks like a home movie (not shot wise or acting wise, mind you. Just makes it look less of a movie and more like a fairytale theater or a play that was taped.) Also the random animated ghouls and such at certain parts, and the lack of Aslan's mouth matching up to what he was saying...

I remember not being able to relate to Lucy because they cast an older actress who was slightly plump and had VERY short hair, and I thought she didn't look anything like her. They also made Susan blond, which was strange....but the thing I really had a hard time with was the animals being simply people in costumes. I know CGI was just a dream back then and they couldn't have done anything else, but it made it seem more like a play than an actual made-for-tv adaptation. I have nothing against the acting in the series (the way Lucy sounded when she talked about Narnia and Aslan was very magical and heartwarming), but it's hard to enjoy it when the main characters look so different from what you had envisioned.

I do remember really liking the Silver Chair, and it made a world of difference to be able to grow up being able to watch Narnia "movies" like that. I didn't have anything else to compare the BBC series to, so I swallowed the stuff that bugged me about it and was ok with it for the most part. But I don't watch it anymore, though I do own most of them on VHS somewhere.

I have nothing but good things to say about the music, regardless of how I feel about the lame effects or cameras they used. <3

I voted: I like them.
I've watched LWW a million times - the dubbed Japanese version. When I was younger, the kids at church had some kind of obsession over it and we would put it on after church practically every week. I still see some kids watching it occasionally. I loved watching it, despite the ridiculous (lack of) special effects, etc. They don't really bug me because when I was younger I didn't care about that kind of stuff.

I've seen PC, VDT and SC once each. I don't remember that much, and since I saw them far more recently and could compare them with Walden's versions and so on, they kind of bored me after a while.

The thing that annoys me the most is just how totally untrue Lucy's character is to the book. Ugh.. especially in PC.

Nevertheless, LWW will always have a place in my heart.

I like them. I think they are very faithful. They may not be perfect- casting for some characters is not ideal, nor is Aslan's voice. But I do think they are a good effort. And I wish they had filmed all 7 books in the series. And I like how they did the Dryads in the BBC series better than in the Hollywood movies.

I watched Walden Media's Chronicles of Narnia first.. enough said

I especially didn't like how the White Witch was always yelling. it makes her, in my opinion, less scary! she just seems like a grumpy old lady who's hard to please. but in Walden's movie of LWW, the White Witch is scary because she is so quite and almost too calm so it's unnerving because she is just scary if you know what I mean. Andrew Adamson wanted it that way: for her to be almost nice, but since she is not nice, it comes off as a cold creepy apearance. but in BBC's version, she's just the steriotype witch who yells at peoeple and casts spells - the kind of witch Andrew was trying to avoid having Jadis in the Walden LWW be.

^exactly. The only thing I liked better about that witch was she matched the book description, though I liked Tilda's looks better

Agreed and agreed. Tilda's portrayal of Jadis was one of the most deliciously unsettling and creepy things I've witnessed in a movie (and I've seen some pretty terrifying and disturbing movies).