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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.

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]	TAMF	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	Garrett Gilchrist	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

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.

Title	Release Date^[1]	Abbr.^[2]	Based on	Format	Produced by	#^[3]
The Colour of Magic^[14]	1984		The Colour of Magic	Serialised reading	BBC (on Women’s Hour)	1
Equal Rites^[14]	1987		Equal Rites	Serialised reading	BBC (on Women’s Hour)	3
Guards! Guards!	1992	GGR	Guards! Guards!	Radio drama series	BBC	8
Wyrd Sisters	1995	WSR	Wyrd Sisters	Radio drama series	BBC	7
Only You Can Save Mankind	1996	OYR	Only You Can Save Mankind	Radio drama series	BBC	J1
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents	2002		The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents	Serialised reading	BBC (on The 4 O’Clock Show)	28
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents	2003	TAMR	The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents	Radio drama series	BBC	28
Mort	2004	MRAD	Mort	Radio drama series	BBC	4
Small Gods	2006	SGR	Small Gods	Radio drama series	BBC	13
Night Watch	2008	NWR	Night Watch	Radio drama series	BBC	29
Nation	2010		Nation	Serialised reading	BBC
Eric	2013	ERAD	Eric	Radio drama series	BBC	9
Good Omens	2014	GOR	Good Omens	Radio drama series	BBC
Unseen Academicals	2018	UAA	Unseen Academicals	Audio drama	Audible	37

Comics

Title	Release Date	Based on	Format	Adapted by	Publisher	#^[3]
The Colour of Magic	1991	The Colour of Magic	Comic book series	Scott Rockwell and Steven Ross	Innovative Corporation/Corgi (collected editions)	1
The Light Fantastic	1992	The Light Fantastic	Comic book series	Scott Rockwell and Steven Ross	Innovative Corporation/Corgi (collected editions)	2
Mort: A Discworld Big Comic	1994	Mort	Graphic novel^[15]	Terry Pratchett and Graham Higgins	Gollancz	4
Guards! Guards!	2000	Guards! Guards!	Graphic novel^[15]	Stephen Briggs^[16] and Graham Higgins	Gollancz	8
Small Gods	2016	Small Gods	Graphic novel	Terry Pratchett and Ray Friesen	Doubleday	13

Footnotes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 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.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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”.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 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”.
↑ ^14.0 ^14.1 These broadcasts are credited in Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes as being major boosts to the success of Discworld in the early years.
↑ ^15.0 ^15.1 These volumes are described as “big comics”, with the Mort adaptation going so far as to put that into the title.
↑ The book is based on Briggs’ stageplay

[releasedate-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 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] 2.0 ^2.1 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”.

[Order-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 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”.

[earlyreadings-14] 14.0 ^14.1 These broadcasts are credited in Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes as being major boosts to the success of Discworld in the early years.

[BigComic-15] 15.0 ^15.1 These volumes are described as “big comics”, with the Mort adaptation going so far as to put that into the title.

[16] The book is based on Briggs’ stageplay

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