The Watch (TV series)

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The Watch is a 2021 BBC America television series "inspired by characters created by Terry Pratchett". It began as an attempt to make a fairly straightforward translation of the City Watch books characters into a procedural crime drama, but ended up somewhere quite different after many years in development. It has been quite divisive, with many fans - including celebrity ones - disowning it.

Blurb

Episodes

The Watch has had one season of eight episodes.

# Broadcast Date[1] Episode Title Synopsis
1 2021-01-03 "A Near Vimes Experience" Captain Sam Vimes of the Ank-Morpork City Watch has a near-Death experience when he tracks down Carcer Dun, a criminal from his past, who he saw die twenty years ago.
2 2021-01-03 "Ook" Carcer uses a magical book to summon a Noble Dragon. The Watch investigate the Unseen University to find out who stole it for him, while confronting their fears of actively fighting actual crime.
3 2021-01-10 "The What?" TBA
4 2021-01-17 "Twilight Canyons" TBA
5 2021-01-24 "Not On My Watch" TBA
6 2021-01-31 "The Dark in the Dark" TBA
7 2021-02-07 "Nowhere in the Multiverse" TBA
8 2021-02-14 "Better to Light a Candle" TBA

Podcast episodes

Major appearances

These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this series.

Date Show Episode Topic External link
2020-10-20 Radio Morpork Bonus Episode: Discussing the trailer for BBC America’s The Watch The trailer radiomorpork.wordpress.com
2021-01-16 Who Watches the Watch "WE WATCH THE WATCH" Episodes "Near Vimes Experience" and "Ook" who-watches-the-watch.pinecast.co
2021-01-20 Who Watches the Watch "The Elon Musk of Bean Dads" Episode "The What?" who-watches-the-watch.pinecast.co
2021-01-28 Who Watches the Watch "Please Clap" Episode "Twilight Canyons" who-watches-the-watch.pinecast.co
2021-02-04 Who Watches the Watch "Marginalised Cops" Episode "Not On My Watch" who-watches-the-watch.pinecast.co
2021-02-12 Who Watches the Watch "Direct Me to the Gender Button" Episode "The Dark in the Dark" who-watches-the-watch.pinecast.co
2021-02-18 Who Watches the Watch "Captain Planet of Media Podcasts" Episode "Nowhere in the Multiverse" who-watches-the-watch.pinecast.co
2021-02-20 The Death of Podcasts TDOP B3 The series N/A (Patreon-exclusive bonus episode)
2021-02-26 Who Watches the Watch "The Watch? Completed it m8" Episode "Better to Light a Candle" who-watches-the-watch.pinecast.co
2021-08-13 The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret "Bonus: The Watch feat. Marc Burrows (Machina Ex Deus)" The series thetruthshallmakeyefret.com

More to be added?

Other appearances

Episodes where this series is discussed, but not as the main topic.

To be added.

Footnotes

  1. This is the original broadcast date on BBC America. Episodes were also released on the Australian streaming platform Stan on the same day (local Australian time). The entire season was released in the UK on BBC iPlayer on 1 July, 2021.