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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.

Screen adaptations

Official adaptations

The below table is sortable. We’ve by default listed the adaptations in release order.

Title	Release Date^[1]	Abbr.^[2]	Based on	Format	Produced by	#^[3]
Truckers	1992-01-10	TTV	Truckers	Stop-motion animated television series	Cosgrove Hall	B1
Johnny and the Dead	1995-04-04	TTV	Johnny and the Dead	Live-action television mini-series	London Weekend Television	J2
Welcome to the Discworld	1996^[4]	WTTD	Reaper Man	Animated short film	Cosgrove Hall	11
Wyrd Sisters	1997-05-11^[5]	WSTV	Wyrd Sisters	Animated television mini-series	Cosgrove Hall	7
Soul Music	1997-12-27^[5]	SMTV	Soul Music	Animated television mini-series	Cosgrove Hall	16
Johnny and the Bomb	2006-01-15	JATBTV	Johnny and the Bomb	Live-action television mini-series	Childsplay Television	J3
Terry Pratchett's Hogfather	2006-12-17	HTV	Hogfather	Live-action television mini-series	The Mob	20
Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic	2008-03-23	COMTV	The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic	Live-action television mini-series	The Mob	1
Going Postal	2010-05-30	GPTV	Going Postal	Live-action television mini-series	The Mob	33
Troll Bridge^[6]	2019-01-16	TBF	“Troll Bridge”	Live-action short film	Snowgum Films
Good Omens	2019-05-31^[7]	GOTV	Good Omens	Live-action television series	Amazon Prime/BBC
The Watch	2021-01-03^[8]	TWTV	The Watch books^[9]	Live-action television series	BBC America
The Amazing Maurice	2022-12-16^[10]	GPTV	Going Postal	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.^[11] The L-Space wiki has a single fan films page that lists all of these.

Title	Release Date^[1]	Based on	Format	Produced by	External link
Mort	2001	Mort	Short stop-motion animation	Lasidlav Plecitý	YouTube: Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3
Terry Pratchett’s Lords and Ladies^[12]	2004	Lords and Ladies	Feature-length fan film	Almost No Money Productions	YouTube (trailer only)
Run Rincewind Run	2007	Original story	Short live-action film	Snowgum Films	Vimeo
Nation (extract)	2009	Nation	Short stop-motion animated fan film	Billy Godfrey	N/A
Poslední odměna^[13]	2013	“Final Reward”	Short live-action student film	Lasidlav Plecitý	YouTube
Terry Pratchett's The Duel	2015	Original story	Short animated student film	Giant Animation Studios	Vimeo

Footnotes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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.
↑ A template using this abbreviation has been set up to make linking to this adaptation easier. Type the acronym in braces, e.g. {{GOTV}} will produce Good Omens. 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 the television adaptation of Good Omens”.
↑ Use this column to sort adaptations into publication order by source work series. Discworld stories are numbered; other series use letter prefixes.
↑ Never broadcast, but released on the DVD for Soul Music.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 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 Wyrd Sisters was in May 1997. Some sources then have Soul Music 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 continuig to investigate.
↑ While more-or-less a fan film, Troll Bridge had official permission from Pratchett and is such a huge production it feels more appropriate to list it with the other official screen adaptations.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Rather than adapting a single book, The Watch creates a new story drawing primarily on ideas from Guards! Guards!, Night Watch and Thud!.
↑ This was the premiere on Sky Movies; it had a limited premiere at the Manchester Animation Festival on 13 November 2022.
↑ From a money-making perspective; we aren’t suggesting some of these aren’t very good!
↑ The trailer doesn’t give the German title, but presumably it’s Lords und Ladies, the German title of the book.
↑ The Czech title literally translates to “The Final Reward”.

[releasedate-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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.

[shortcuts-2] A template using this abbreviation has been set up to make linking to this adaptation easier. Type the acronym in braces, e.g. {{GOTV}} will produce Good Omens. 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 the television adaptation of Good Omens”.

[3] Use this column to sort adaptations into publication order by source work series. Discworld stories are numbered; other series use letter prefixes.

[4] Never broadcast, but released on the DVD for Soul Music.

[AnimatedDates-5] 5.0 ^5.1 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 Wyrd Sisters was in May 1997. Some sources then have Soul Music 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 continuig to investigate.

[6] While more-or-less a fan film, Troll Bridge had official permission from Pratchett and is such a huge production it feels more appropriate to list it with the other official screen adaptations.

[7] 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.

[8] 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.

[9] Rather than adapting a single book, The Watch creates a new story drawing primarily on ideas from Guards! Guards!, Night Watch and Thud!.

[10] This was the premiere on Sky Movies; it had a limited premiere at the Manchester Animation Festival on 13 November 2022.

[11] From a money-making perspective; we aren’t suggesting some of these aren’t very good!

[12] The trailer doesn’t give the German title, but presumably it’s Lords und Ladies, the German title of the book.

[13] The Czech title literally translates to “The Final Reward”.

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-This page lists [[adaptations]] of Pratchett’s works for film, television or the web. Videogames appear in the separate list of [[games]], and there (or will be) are separate lists for [[audiobooks]], [[audio drama]] (including radio) and [[comics]].
+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]].
-== Official screen adaptations ==
+== Screen adaptations ==
+=== Official adaptations ===
 The below table is sortable. We’ve by default listed the adaptations in release order.
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 |}
-== Fan films ==
+=== 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" />
-! Abbr.<ref name="shortcuts" />
 ! Based on
 ! Format
 ! Produced by
-! L-Space wiki link
+! External link
+|-
+| ''Mort'' || 2001 || {{M}} || Short stop-motion animation || Lasidlav Plecitý || 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]
 |}