Adaptations

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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. ↑ 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.
  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.
  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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