Guards! Guards! - Adaptations

Adaptations

The novel has been adapted as:

• a 6-episode serial on BBC Radio 4 (23 November - 28 December 1992) dramatised by Michael Butt and starring John Wood (Vimes), Melvyn Hayes (Nobby), Robert Gwilym (Carrot), Crawford Logan (Vetinari), Helen Atkinson-Wood (Lady Ramkin), Brett Usher (Supreme Grand Master), Martin Jarvis (narrator).
• a stage play for the amateur stage scripted by Stephen Briggs (1993) (script later published in book form 1997).
• a professional stage play scripted by Geoffrey Cush and starring Paul Darrow (1998).
• a "Big Comic" (Graphic novel) drawn by Graham Higgins and based on Briggs' script (2000).
• an audio play presented live at Dragon*Con in 2001, adapted by David Benedict and performed by the ARTC (Atlanta Radio Theatre Company). In appreciation, the ARTC made a donation to the Orangutan Foundation International.
• a video game loosely based on the plot of the book, with Rincewind substituted for Sam Vimes.
• a Board Game - officially launched at Titancon, Belfast 24 September 2011 by Backspindle Games (Designers: Leonard Boyd & David Brashaw) in conjunction with Z-Man Games, USA. The game includes 90 character Discworld character illustrations drawn by Stephen Player and respective text quotes from over twenty Discworld novels.