The Watch

Synopsis

A group of misfit cops rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe. Inspired by the characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett’s famous “Discworld” novels.

First Air Date: 2021-01-03

Last Air Date: 2021-02-14

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 8

Created By: Simon Allen

Networks: BBC America

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Top Cast

Richard Dormer as Captain Sam Vimes
Lara Rossi as Lady Sybil Ramkin
Marama Corlett as Corporal Angua von Uberwald
Adam Hugill as Constable Carrot Ironfoundersson
Joni Ayton-Kent as Constable Cheery
Samuel Adewunmi as Carcer Dun
Bianca Simone Mannie as Wonse
Craig Macrae as Death
Anna Chancellor as Lord Vetinari
Wendell Pierce as Death (voice)

Seasons

Season 1 (2021)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: A Near Vimes Experience (2021-01-03)

Capt. Sam Vimes' life in the City Watch is changed forever when a figure from his past returns to Ankh-Morpork.
Ep. 2: Ook (2021-01-03)

The Watch connects Carcer's evil plan to strange goings-on at a magical institution.
Ep. 3: The What? (2021-01-10)

The Watch must rob the city's most secretive institution in a desperate effort to find the artifact.
Ep. 4: Twilight Canyons (2021-01-17)

Carcer is willing to do anything to find a sword and the Watch is close on his tail.
Ep. 5: Not on My Watch (2021-01-24)

The Watch must trek through the Unreal Estate to destroy the sword in a magical lake.
Ep. 6: The Dark in the Dark (2021-01-31)

In the race against Carcer for the second mystical artifact, Cheery, Angua and Carrot venture into the Mines of Tak. Cheery must confront the darkness in her past. Vimes and Sybil defend the besieged Watch House from Doctor Cruces and her Assassins.
Ep. 7: Nowhere in the Multiverse (2021-02-07)

Sam Vimes wakes up in an alternate universe where he's a prisoner in the middle of a jailbreak.
Ep. 8: Better to Light a Candle (2021-02-14)

Carcer's got everything he needs to control the Noble Dragon and destroy Ankh-Morpork.