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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997): Season 1: Episode 12 -- As the Spring Fling dance approaches, Giles discovers an ancient book foretelling the Slayer's death at the hands of The Master.
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997): Season 1: Episode 12 -- When Willie (ROBERT ENGLUND) is critically injured, Donovan (MARC SINGER) and Ham (MICHAEL IRONSIDE) kidnap a Visitor doctor who's sympathetic to the Rebels and reveals that the Visitors are smuggling armaments into the city; Kyle (JEFF YAGHER) suspects that the computer image of Nathan Bates (LANE SMITH) is not really his father.
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997): Season 1: Episode 11 -- As Cordelia prepares for Sunnydale High's May Queen competition, an invisible force starts attacking her closest friends.
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997): Season 1: Episode 11 -- Aliens posing as Rebels stage a terrorist attack on Science Frontiers hoping to turn public opinion against the Resistance; Chaing (AKI ALEONG) and Charles (DUNCAN REGEHR) form an alliance and decree that one Resistance sympathizer a day will be executed until Rebel leaders surrender; swept up in the mass arrests, Robin (BLAIR TEFKIN) falls for a seemingly heroic compatriot.
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997): Season 1: Episode 10 -- The nightmare world of a comatose child sends Buffy and her friends into a realm where their worst nightmares become reality.

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Overview

User Rating:
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Creator:

Joss Whedon
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Contact:

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Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 full episode list

Release Date:

10 March 1997 (USA) more

Genre:

Action | Drama | Fantasy more

Tagline:

Get home before dark. more

Plot:

After the traumatizing ordeal in the movie with the same name, Buffy Summers and her mother move to Sunnydale, only to discover that L.A. was just a walk in the park... full summary

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 34 wins & 99 nominations more

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Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 7 of 172)

Sarah Michelle Gellar ... Buffy Summers / ... (145 episodes, 1997-2003)

Nicholas Brendon ... Xander Harris (145 episodes, 1997-2003)

Alyson Hannigan ... Willow Rosenberg (144 episodes, 1997-2003)

Anthony Head ... Rupert Giles (123 episodes, 1997-2003)

James Marsters ... Spike (97 episodes, 1997-2003)

Emma Caulfield ... Anya (85 episodes, 1998-2003)

Michelle Trachtenberg ... Dawn Summers (66 episodes, 2000-2003)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

BtVS (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
Buffy (USA) (short title)
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: The Series (USA) (long title)
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Runtime:

44 min (144 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

UK:12 (some episodes) | UK:15 (some episodes) | Australia:PG (some episodes) | Portugal:M/12 | New Zealand:M | USA:TV-14 | Australia:M | Israel:PG | Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) (season 7) | Singapore:PG | USA:TV-14 (some episodes) | USA:TV-PG (some episodes)

Company:

Mutant Enemy more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Originally, the third member of the sixth season's nerdly Trio was to be Tucker, who appeared in the third season as a student who wanted to kill everyone at the prom. Plans fell through with that, so the writers replaced him with Andrew, Tucker's younger brother. more

Quotes:

Andrew Wells: Get out of my brain! more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Charmed: The Power of Two (#1.20)" (1999) more

Soundtrack:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Theme more


FAQ

I read that clues to Dawn's arrival can be found as early as the third season, but she doesn't actually show up until the fifth; is this true?
When Anyanka's necklace is smashed in "The Wish," we're told all her wishes will be reversed. But in "Hell's Bells," a guy that she cursed back in the 1920s is still a demon.
Which is the real world in "Normal Again?"
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5 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
Best Thing To Happen To TV, 12 July 2008
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Author: Dark Princess from United Kingdom

buffy the vampire slayer, great fun to watch if you've never seen it and you have an hour to spare, full of action and kick ass lines.

but all changes if you've been watching obsessively, the kick ass action and the cheesy lines give way to something far more important, the extreme symbolism, when i watch it im still shocked at how well joss has used the whole show to sum up the teenage girls struggle through life, all the characters merge together showing characteristics of a whole person, the demons show all bad people in life and how they concure them and the relationships show how hard it is at that age and how teenagers feel alone.

when watching even after the amount I've watched it through i still find new bits that amaze me, and so people who say buffy is a load of rubbish, obviously don't get its deeper side and just see a girl fighting off demons while tryng to date.

plus there's a musical episode :P what more could you want lol

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