TV Mini Series · 1988 · TV Mini Series · 1980s
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Scored from 45 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 1980s (94 peers).
Summary
Four children discover a magical wardrobe in their new home that transports them to the fantasy world of Narnia, where they must help overthrow the tyrannical White Witch.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a 1988 adventure, drama and family miniseries. It was made in the United Kingdom.
93 other miniseries from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 45 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 46 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Mini Series · 1980s (94 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 45.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 1980s
