Ankh-Morpork City Watch

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The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is a fictional police force appearing in Terry Prattchett's Discworld series. The Watch primarily functions out of the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork, but some stories do include members of the watch elsewhere in the world.

The watch and its members are the primary topic of 8 novels and one short story, listed below in order of publication.

• Guards! Guards! (1989);
• "Theatre of Cruelty" (1993) (short story)
• Men at Arms (1993);
• Feet of Clay (1996);
• Jingo (1997);
• The Fifth Elephant (1999);
• Night Watch (2002);
• Thud! (2005);
• Snuff (2011)

The novels generally feature Watch Commander Sam Vimes as protagonist and often draw on the conventions of crime novels. The Watch and its individual members also appear as secondary characters in many other stories in the Discworld series, especially those set in Ankh-Morpork.

The Watch was also a loose inspiration for the 2021 fantasy police procedural television series The Watch^[1][2].