[1] It was first broadcast from June 6 to July 18, 1997 and released on DVD in 2001, alongside Wyrd Sisters in a box set entitled "Soul Music", by Vision Video.
[6] Terry Pratchett said "Rock and Roll is sung about and talked about as though it is some kind of a living thing – it won’t fade away, it’ll never die.
It has a meaning quite apart from a particular type of musical sound, and then consider the large number of people to whom it offered tremendous fame for a few years and then sudden death, as if there was some kind of devil’s bargain going on.
In Sto Lat, they sound like the Jimi Hendrix Experience or Bad Company, but are dressed in clothes similar to the Beatles on the cover of the Sgt.
It said that both adaptions would please fans of the Discworld franchise, even though certain content had to be left out due to time, resources, and the different medium - and also that in-jokes and recurring characters would be unfamiliar to newcomers.
It said "oftentimes Pratchett’s clever language jokes [such as homonyms] are lost in the dialogue of the screen since the visual cue of the printed words is necessary to cotton on.
[6] NeedCoffee spoke highly of the choice of voice overs, especially Christopher Lee as Death, whose performance was described as "urbane, polite, and somewhat weary".
[8] Rambles said "Besides Lee, the vocal talents are adequate without being exceptional -- and the Liverpudlian accent sported by Glod the dwarf is a bit over the top.