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The Watch

Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · 2021 · Rated 6.6/10

Last aired: S1 E8, Better to Light a Candle · 2021-02-14

Inspired by the characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett's famous "Discworld" novels, The Watch follows an unlikely group of misfits, The City Watch, who are forced to find the guts to save the world, surprising even themselves in the process. The comedic yet thrilling series pits trolls, werewolves, wizards and other improbable heroes against an evil plot to resurrect a great dragon which would lead to the destruction of life as they know it.

Cast

Wendell Pierce Death

Richard Dormer Captain Sam Vimes

Joni Ayton-Kent Corporal Cheery

Adam Hugill Constable Carrot Ironfoundersson

Marama Corlett Corporal Angua von Uberwald

Lara Rossi Lady Sybil Ramkin

Sam Adewunmi Carcer Dun

Bianca Simone Mannie Lupine Wonse

Anna Chancellor Lord Havelock Vetinari

Matt Berry Gawain / Wayne

Ingrid Oliver Doctor Cruces

Ruth Madeley Throat Dibbler

Hakeem Kae-Kazim Captain John Keel

James Fleet Archchancellor of Unseen University

Season 1

E1 A Near Vimes Experience 2021-01-03 · 60 min Captain Sam Vimes' life in the City Watch is changed forever when an impossible figure from his past returns to Ankh-Morpork. 20 years ago, Vimes watched his street brother and gang-leader Carcer Dun fall from a fatal height. Somehow, Carcer is back.

E2 Ook 2021-01-03 · 60 min Using the policing know-how of Constable Carrot, the Watch connects Carcer's evil plan to strange goings-on at the magical institution called Unseen University. Perhaps a missing library book has something to do with the dragon attacks in the city.

E3 The What? 2021-01-10 · 60 min The Watch must rob the city's most secretive and dangerous institution in a desperate effort to find the magical artifact known as Gawain.

E4 Twilight Canyons 2021-01-17 · 60 min Carcer is willing to do anything to find the sword for Gawain; the Watch is close on his tail, following him to Twilight Canyons, a place where the elderly residents await death; death patiently waits for them to draw their last breaths.

E5 Not on My Watch 2021-01-24 · 60 min The Watch must trek through the Unreal Estate to destroy the sword in a magical lake.

E6 The Dark in The Dark 2021-01-31 · 60 min In the race to obtain the second artifact, Cheery, Angua and Carrot venture into the Mines of Tak, where Cheery must confront the darkness in her past; meanwhile, Vimes and Sybil defend the Watch House from Doctor Cruces and her Assassins.

E7 Nowhere in the Multiverse 2021-02-07 · 60 min Sam Vimes wakes up into an alternate universe where he's a prisoner in the middle of a jailbreak; in Ankh-Morpork, the alternate-version of Vimes is leading The Watch straight into Carcer's trap.

E8 Better to Light a Candle 2021-02-14 · 60 min Carcer's got everything he needs to control the Noble Dragon and destroy Ankh-Morpork. With hysteria on the streets and DEATH preparing himself for a very busy day, can The Watch, this band of misfits, step up and save the city from annihilation?

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