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This page lists adaptations of Pratchett’s works. It’s divided up into lists for different media, though as there are so many of them, we have a separate list just for [[audiobooks]]. Most of the [[games]] are not direct adaptations of books, so we have given them their own page as well.

== Screen adaptations ==
=== Official films and television series ===
These are officially licensed productions, usually made with Pratchett or a trusted friend as an executive producer, or in later years co-produced by Narrativia.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Title 
! Release Date<ref name="releasedate">For series, this is the first broadcast date, or streaming release date, of the first episode. For films, this is the first wide release date. Basically we’re trying to indicate when the adaptation was first made available to a wide audience, but we’ll make notes where the dating is a bit unclear.</ref>
! Abbr.<ref name="shortcuts">A template using this abbreviation has been set up to make linking to this adaptation easier. Type the acronym in braces, e.g. <nowiki>{{GOTV}}</nowiki> will produce {{GOTV}}. By convention, we’re hiding the parenthetical distinctions like “(TV series)” for adaptations that use the same name as the original work; where it’s not obvious in context, use a regular wiki link and be explicit, e.g. “unlike in [[Good Omens (TV series)|the television adaptation of Good Omens]]”.</ref>
! Based on 
! Format
! Produced by
! #<ref name="Order">Use this column to sort adaptations into publication order by source work series. Discworld stories are numbered; other series use letter prefixes.</ref>
|-
| {{TTV}} || 1992-01-10 || TTV || {{T}} || Stop-motion animated television series || Cosgrove Hall || B1
|-
| {{JATDTV}} || 1995-04-04 || TTV || {{JATD}} || Live-action television mini-series || London Weekend Television || J2
|-
| {{WTTD}} || 1996<ref>Never broadcast, but released on the DVD for {{SMTV}}.</ref> || WTTD || {{RM}} || Animated short film || Cosgrove Hall || 11
|-
| {{WSTV}} || 1997-05-11<ref name="AnimatedDates">There’s a lot of conflicting information around when the Cosgrove Hall animated adaptations were broadcast on Channel 4, for whom they were originally produced, but it seems correct that {{WSTV}} was in May 1997. Some sources then have {{SMTV}} not being broadcast until December 1999, which seems far too late, especially when those same sources say the DVD was released in 1997! So we’re guessing this one, and are continuing to investigate.</ref> || WSTV || {{WS}} || Animated television mini-series || Cosgrove Hall || 7
|-
| {{SMTV}} || 1997-12-27<ref name="AnimatedDates" /> || SMTV || {{SM}} || Animated television mini-series || Cosgrove Hall || 16
|-
| {{JATBTV}} || 2006-01-15 || JATBTV || {{JATB}} || Live-action television mini-series || Childsplay Television || J3
|-
| {{HTV}} || 2006-12-17 || HTV || {{H}} || Live-action television mini-series || The Mob || 20
|-
| {{COMTV}} || 2008-03-23 || COMTV || {{COM}} and {{TLF}} || Live-action television mini-series || The Mob || 1
|-
| {{GPTV}} || 2010-05-30 || GPTV || {{GP}} || Live-action television mini-series || The Mob || 33
|-
| {{TBF}}<ref>While more-or-less a fan film, {{TBF}} had official permission from Pratchett and is such a huge production it feels more appropriate to list it with the other official screen adaptations.</ref> || 2019-01-16 || TBF || {{TB}} || Live-action short film || Snowgum Films || 
|-
| {{GOTV}} || 2019-05-31<ref>This is the streaming release date for all episodes on Amazon Prime. It was later broadcast weekly on BBC Two, beginning on 15 January 2020.</ref> || GOTV || {{GO}} || Live-action television series || Amazon Prime/BBC || 
|-
| {{TWTV}} || 2021-01-03<ref>This is the streaming release date for the first two episodes on BBC America in the US and Stan in Australia. It was released on BBC iPlayer on 1 July 2021, and eventually broadcast on BBC Two from 12 August 2021.</ref> || TWTV || [[The Watch]] books<ref>Rather than adapting a single book, {{TWTV}} creates a new story drawing primarily on ideas from {{G!G!}}, {{NW}} and {{T!}}.</ref> || Live-action television series || BBC America || 
|-
| {{TAMF}} || 2022-12-16<ref>This was the premiere on Sky Movies; it had a limited premiere at the Manchester Animation Festival on 13 November 2022.</ref> || TAMF || {{TAM}} || Animated feature film || Ulysses FilmProduktion et al || 28
|}

=== Fan films ===
Some of these were produced with explicit permission; others under an assumption they’d be okay since they were clearly student or amateur work.<ref>From a money-making perspective; we aren’t suggesting some of these aren’t very good!</ref> The L-Space wiki has a single [[lspace:Fan Films|fan films]] page that lists all of these.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Title 
! Release Date<ref name="releasedate" />
! Based on 
! Format
! Produced by
! External link
|-
| ''Mort'' || 2001 || {{M}} || Short stop-motion animation || Garrett Gilchrist || YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ_0z_a0LI0 Episode 1] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZGte6z2Vsk Episode 2] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08b0xqD5C0 Episode 3]
|-
| ''Terry Pratchett’s Lords and Ladies''<ref>The trailer doesn’t give the German title, but presumably it’s ''Lords und Ladies'', the German title of the book.</ref> || 2004 || {{LL}} || Feature-length fan film || Almost No Money Productions || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHT9ncKQ_no YouTube] (trailer only)
|-
| ''Run Rincewind Run'' || 2007 || Original story || Short live-action film || Snowgum Films || [https://vimeo.com/1331679 Vimeo]
|-
| ''Nation'' (extract) || 2009 || {{N}} || Short stop-motion animated fan film || Billy Godfrey || N/A
|-
| ''Poslední odměna''<ref>The Czech title literally translates to “The Final Reward”.</ref> || 2013 || {{FR}} || Short live-action student film || Lasidlav Plecitý || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI_NGeXoYnc YouTube]
|-
| ''Terry Pratchett's The Duel'' || 2015 || Original story || Short animated student film || Giant Animation Studios || [https://vimeo.com/77104562 Vimeo]
|}

== Radio and Audio Drama ==
As mentioned above, [[audiobooks]] have their own page; this section is only for full-cast dramatic productions and other audio versions for broadcast or which involve adaptation.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Title 
! Release Date<ref name="releasedate"/>
! Abbr.<ref name="shortcuts"/>
! Based on 
! Format
! Produced by
! #<ref name="Order"/>
|-
| ''The Colour of Magic''<ref name="earlyreadings">These broadcasts are credited in {{ALWF}} as being major boosts to the success of Discworld in the early years.</ref> || 1984 || || {{COM}} || Serialised reading || BBC (on ''Women’s Hour'') || 1
|-
| ''Equal Rites''<ref name="earlyreadings"/> || 1987 || || {{ER}} || Serialised reading || BBC (on ''Women’s Hour'') || 3
|-
| {{GGR}} || 1992 || GGR || {{G!G!}} || Radio drama series || BBC || 8
|-
| {{WSR}} || 1995 || WSR || {{WS}} || Radio drama series || BBC || 7
|-
| {{OYR}} || 1996 || OYR || {{OY}} || Radio drama series || BBC || J1
|-
| ''The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents'' || 2002 || || {{TAM}} || Serialised reading || BBC (on ''The 4 O’Clock Show'') || 28
|-
| {{TAMR}} || 2003 || TAMR || {{TAM}} || Radio drama series || BBC || 28
|-
| {{MRAD}} || 2004 || MRAD || {{M}} || Radio drama series || BBC || 4
|-
| {{SGR}} || 2006 || SGR || {{SG}} || Radio drama series || BBC || 13
|-
| {{NWR}} || 2008 || NWR || {{NW}} || Radio drama series || BBC || 29
|-
| ''Nation'' || 2010 || || {{N}} || Serialised reading || BBC ||
|-
| {{ERAD}} || 2013 || ERAD || {{E}} || Radio drama series || BBC || 9
|-
| {{GOR}} || 2014 || GOR || {{GO}} || Radio drama series || BBC || 
|-
| {{UAA}} || 2018 || UAA || {{UA}} || Audio drama || Audible || 37
|}

== Theatre and Other Live Performance ==
Many of the novels have been adapted for the amateur stage by [[Stephen Briggs]]; these are generally very faithful to the books and the popular ones (in particular {{M}} and {{WS}}) have been staged hundreds of times. See Briggs' article for a full list of his adaptations; we'll only include professional and particularly noteworthy ones here. You'll find more information about stage performances in the Adaptations section of the book they're based on. 

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Title 
! First Production<ref name="stagedate">Where possible we've listed the specific date of the first public performance, not including previews. Otherwise we'll just give the year.</ref>
! Based on 
! Adapted by
! Directed by
! Produced by
! #<ref name="Order"/>
|-
| ''Truckers''<ref>See also "[[The Big Store]]", the republished version of Pratchett's notes for the theatre programme.</ref> || 2002 || {{T}} || Bob Eaton || Bob Eaton || Belgrade Theatre, Harrogate Theatre, the Theatre Royal || B1
|-
| ''Nation''<ref>''Nation'' was famously not well-received, including by Pratchett himself. [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/nov/25/theatre-review-nation-olivier-pratchett ''The Guardian'' gave it two stars] (out of five). [[Neil Gaiman]]'s children's work has been much more successful on stage, most notably ''The Ocean at the End of the Lane''.</ref> || 2009 || {{N}} || Mark Ravenhill || Melly Still || National Theatre || 
|}

''More details to be added.''

== Comics ==
These are generally pretty faithful to the source novels, and are not often covered separately, so at present we're only intending to reference these in the Adaptations section of book articles.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Title 
! Release Date
! Based on 
! Format
! Adapted by
! Publisher
! #<ref name="Order" />
|-
| ''The Colour of Magic'' || 1991 || {{COM}} || Comic book series || Scott Rockwell and Steven Ross || Innovative Corporation/Corgi (collected editions) || 1
|-
| ''The Light Fantastic'' || 1992 || {{TLF}} || Comic book series || Scott Rockwell and Steven Ross || Innovative Corporation/Corgi (collected editions) || 2
|-
| ''Mort: A Discworld Big Comic'' || 1994 || {{M}} || Graphic novel<ref name=BigComic>These volumes are described as “big comics”, with the {{M}} adaptation going so far as to put that into the title.</ref> || Terry Pratchett and Graham Higgins || Gollancz || 4
|-
| ''Guards! Guards!'' || 2000 || {{G!G!}} || Graphic novel<ref name=BigComic /> || Stephen Briggs<ref>The book is based on Briggs’ stageplay</ref> and Graham Higgins || Gollancz || 8
|-
| ''Small Gods'' || 2016 || {{SG}} || Graphic novel || Terry Pratchett and Ray Friesen || Doubleday || 13
|-
| ''Good Omens: the Official (and Ineffable) Graphic Novel'' || 2024<ref>Kickstarted in 2023, coinciding with the release of the second season of the TV adaptation.</ref> || {{GO}} || Graphic novel || Colleen Doran || Dunmanifestin || 
|}

== Music ==
This is for albums which aren't soundtracks for other adaptations. There are only two (so far), but we're not sure where else to put them!
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Title 
! Release Date
! Abbr.<ref name="shortcuts"/>
! Based on 
! Format
! Artist
! Genre
! Label
! #<ref name="Order" />
|-
| ''From the Discworld'' || 1994 || FTD || Various || Concept album || Dave Greenslade || Progressive rock || Virgin Music || 
|-
| {{WSES}} || 2013-10-28 || WSES || {{W}}<ref>Also references {{WFM}}, {{HFOS}} and {{ISWM}}.</ref> || Concept album || Steeleye Span || British folk rock || Park Records || 35
|}

== Footnotes ==
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