diff --git a/web/ajax/watch.php b/web/ajax/watch.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e8c551643
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/ajax/watch.php
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+<?php
+//
+// This is simplified version of the logic from ajax/events.php
+// For efficency, sorting and and pagination functionality have been exlcuded
+//
+
+$message = '';
+$data = array();
+
+//
+// INITIALIZE AND CHECK SANITY
+//
+
+if ( !canView('Events') ) $message = 'Insufficient permissions for user '.$user['Username'];
+
+// Mid specifies the monitor id we are searching on
+if ( empty($_REQUEST['mid']) ) {
+  $message = 'Must specify a monitor Id';
+} else {
+  $mid = $_REQUEST['mid'];
+}
+
+// Limit specifies the number of rows to return
+if ( ( !is_int($_REQUEST['limit']) and !ctype_digit($_REQUEST['limit']) ) ) {
+  $message = 'Invalid value for limit: '.$_REQUEST['limit'];
+} else {
+  $limit = $_REQUEST['limit'];
+}
+
+if ( $message ) {
+  ZM\Error($message);
+  ajaxError($message);
+  return;
+}
+
+// Sort specifies the name of the column to sort on
+$sort = 'Id';
+if ( isset($_REQUEST['sort']) ) {
+  $sort = $_REQUEST['sort'];
+}
+
+// Order specifies the sort direction, either asc or desc
+$order = (isset($_REQUEST['order']) and (strtolower($_REQUEST['order']) == 'asc')) ? 'ASC' : 'DESC';
+
+//
+// MAIN LOOP
+//
+
+$where = 'WHERE MonitorId = '.$mid;
+$col_str = 'E.*';
+$sql = 'SELECT ' .$col_str. ' FROM `Events` AS E '.$where.' ORDER BY '.$sort.' '.$order. ' LIMIT ?';
+ZM\Debug('Calling the following sql query: ' .$sql);
+$rows = dbQuery($sql, array($limit));
+
+$returned_rows = array();
+foreach ( $rows as $row ) {
+  $event = new ZM\Event($row['Id']);
+
+  $scale = intval(5*100*ZM_WEB_LIST_THUMB_WIDTH / $event->Width());
+  $imgSrc = $event->getThumbnailSrc(array(), '&amp;');
+  $streamSrc = $event->getStreamSrc(array(
+    'mode'=>'jpeg', 'scale'=>$scale, 'maxfps'=>ZM_WEB_VIDEO_MAXFPS, 'replay'=>'single', 'rate'=>'400'), '&amp;');
+
+  // Modify the row data as needed
+  $row['imgHtml'] = '<img id="thumbnail' .$event->Id(). '" src="' .$imgSrc. '" alt="Event '.$event->Id().'" width="' .validInt($event->ThumbnailWidth()). '" height="' .validInt($event->ThumbnailHeight()).'" stream_src="' .$streamSrc. '" still_src="' .$imgSrc. '"/>';
+  $row['Name'] = validHtmlStr($row['Name']);
+  $row['StartDateTime'] = strftime(STRF_FMT_DATETIME_SHORTER, strtotime($row['StartDateTime']));
+  $row['Length'] = gmdate('H:i:s', $row['Length'] );
+
+  $returned_rows[] = $row;
+} # end foreach row matching search
+
+$data['rows'] = $returned_rows;
+ajaxResponse($data);
+?>
diff --git a/web/skins/classic/views/js/watch.js b/web/skins/classic/views/js/watch.js
index 42da61fac..8b7d0c769 100644
--- a/web/skins/classic/views/js/watch.js
+++ b/web/skins/classic/views/js/watch.js
@@ -37,16 +37,19 @@ var params =
 // Called by bootstrap-table to retrieve zm event data
 function ajaxRequest(params) {
   // Maintain legacy behavior by statically setting these parameters
-  params.data.order = 'desc';
-  params.data.limit = maxDisplayEvents;
-  params.data.sort = 'Id';
-  if ( auth_hash ) params.data.auth = auth_hash;
+  var data = params.data;
+  data.order = 'desc';
+  data.limit = maxDisplayEvents;
+  data.sort = 'Id';
+  data.view = 'request';
+  data.request = 'watch';
+  data.mid = monitorId;
+  if ( auth_hash ) data.auth = auth_hash;
 
-  $j.getJSON(thisUrl + '?view=request&request=events&task=query'+filterQuery, params.data)
+  $j.getJSON(thisUrl, data)
       .done(function(data) {
         var rows = processRows(data.rows);
-        // rearrange the result into what bootstrap-table expects
-        params.success({total: data.total, totalNotFiltered: data.totalNotFiltered, rows: rows});
+        params.success(rows);
       })
       .fail(logAjaxFail);
 }