Ankh-Morpork City Watch

The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is a fictional police force appearing in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. The Watch is based in the city of Ankh-Morpork, though some stories feature its members elsewhere in the Discworld.

The Watch and its members are the central focus of eight 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 members also appear as secondary characters in other Discworld books, particularly those set in Ankh-Morpork.

The Watch was a loose inspiration for the 2021 fantasy police procedural television series The Watch.