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  ==Production==
  The episode was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.
  This episode adapts content from the ''A Storm of Swords'' chapters Jon VII, Jon VIII and Jon IX.
  "The Watchers on the Wall" marks the return of director Neil Marshall, whose previous episode for the show as director was "Blackwater". Marshall also makes a cameo appearance in the episode as an archer on the Wall.