Pratchett's Watch has been described as part of a longstanding fantasy tradition where the characters of the city watch would 'rush in and die, or run away', with Pratchett's approach to that tradition ranging from parody in the earlier novels to 'deeper satire' in the later ones. The Watch is also the loose inspiration for the 2021 fantasy police procedural television series, The Watch. Besides these main stories, the Watch, and individual members thereof, appear in some form in many of the other Discworld novels, especially those set in Ankh-Morpork. In order of publication, they are Guards! Guards! (1989), ' Theatre of Cruelty' (1993) (a short story), Men at Arms (1993), Feet of Clay (1996), Jingo (1997), The Fifth Elephant (1999), Night Watch (2002), Thud! (2005) and Snuff (2011). These novels generally feature as the protagonist, the Watch Commander Sam Vimes, and take on the general shape of a crime novel, in which the Watch are called on to solve a mysterious crime. The Watch, its growth and development, and its inner workings are explored through a series of eight fantasy novels and one short story.

The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is the police force of the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld series by the English writer Terry Pratchett. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( January 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. This article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style.

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