Watch Series

The Watch Series is one of several subseries of the Discworld Series. The stories star the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, led by Sam Vimes, chronicling its transition from being a run-down useless organisation to being a modern police force. The main setting is Ankh-Morpork.

Stories

• Guards! Guards! (also adapted as a graphic novel)
• Theatre of Cruelty (short story)
• Men at Arms
• Feet of Clay
• Jingo
• The Fifth Elephant
• Night Watch
• Thud!
• Snuff

Major characters

• Sam Vimes (main character)
• Carrot Ironfoundersson
• Fred Colon
• Nobby Nobbs
• Angua von Überwald
• Cheery Littlebottom
• Sybil Ramkin
• Havelock Vetinari

In other media

• The Watch books serve as inspiration for the 2021 BBC America series The Watch.