Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
Seasons: 7,
episodes: 144
Average rating:
8.1/10
221 807
Status
Completed
Creators
Scenario
Jane Espenson
Author
Producer
Sandy Gallin
Actors
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Buffy Summers
Nicholas Brendon
Xander Harris
Alyson Hannigan
Willow Rosenberg
Emma Caulfield
Anya
Charisma Carpenter
Cordelia Chase
Anthony Stewart Head
Rupert Giles
Michelle Trachtenberg
Dawn Summers
Short description
Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.
Seasons
| Season | Episodes | Release date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
Season 1 After moving to Sunnydale, California, Buffy Anne Summers just wants to be a normal teenager. Back in Los Angeles, her first Watcher had died; she inadvertently burned down the gymnasium at her old high school; and her parents got a divorce. The move to Sunnydale is supposed to give both her and …
|
12 | 1997-03-10 | 7.6 |
Season 2 New vampires Spike and Drusilla come to town along with the new slayer, Kendra Young, who was activated as a result of Buffy's brief death in the season one finale. Xander becomes involved with Cordelia, while Willow becomes involved with witchcraft and Daniel "Oz" Osbourne becomes a werewolf aft…
|
22 | 1997-09-15 | 7.9 |
Season 3 Buffy returns from the big city to find her friends have been battling the forces of evil without her. As she struggles to regain her mother's and her friends' trust, a new slayer named Faith arrives in town, quickly winning over all of Buffy's friends. But Faith's arrival is just the beginning o…
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22 | 1998-09-29 | 8.1 |
Season 4 Buffy begins college feeling completely overwhelmed...but once the monsters show up, it's just like old times. Then she starts dating Riley, a handsome commando battling the same monsters. He's part of a secret organization called The Initiative, and Buffy is all too happy to join the team. But s…
|
22 | 1999-10-05 | 7.5 |
Season 5 After an unsettling encounter with the Dracula, Buffy asks Giles to once again be her Watcher. Luckily he agrees, for Buffy is about to face mortal problems far more threatening than the undead.
|
22 | 2000-09-26 | 7.8 |
Season 6 Elated with having Buffy back from the dead, her friends never wonder if she may have been in a better place.
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22 | 2001-10-02 | 7.7 |
Season 7 As Buffy accompanies Dawn on her first day at the new Sunnydale High, Giles continues Willow's magic education in England. But while Buffy is surprised to be offered a guidance counselor job, Willow is shocked to experience a horrific future vision of the Hellmouth.
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22 | 2002-09-24 | 7.7 |
What's left behind the scenes
- It was originally intended that Angel would actually die at the end of the second season, but Joss Whedon was approached with a proposal to film a spin-off, and Angel was brought back to life in the third season for the creation of the series 'Angel' (1999-2004).
- One of the first series to use the phrase "Google it." The line was spoken by Willow, played by Alyson Hannigan.
- Joss Whedon wanted the vampires to look like ordinary, normal people until it was time to feed, so applying the makeup before filming took an hour and 20 minutes, and it took just as long to remove it afterward.
- The actors disliked filming the library scenes because there was so much fussing with the set dressing, which took up a lot of time; so when the library blew up in the plot, it became a reason for a small celebration.
- According to director and writer Joss Whedon, the idea to create "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was inspired by the numerous horror movies he had seen, in which the helpless young blonde almost always dies first. At some point, Whedon decided that young blondes deserved a better fate.
- In the unreleased pilot of the series, the role of Willow was played by another actress, Riff Regan, but they eventually decided to replace her with Alyson Hannigan.
- James Marsters read only the parts of the script that pertained directly to his character. As a fan of the project, he did not want to spoil the experience by finding out all the plot twists in advance.
- Actor Nicholas Brendon has a twin brother. In the episode where Xander was split in two, the actor's brother played the second half. Additionally, his brother filled in for the actor on set a couple of times when he was sick.
- The show's creators told Nicholas Brendon to stop going to the gym so that his character would not look too muscular.
- Katie Holmes and Selma Blair auditioned for the role of Buffy.
- In the third season, Seth Green disliked spending the entire day on set when his character only had a couple of lines for the whole episode.
- Ryan Reynolds was originally cast as Xander Harris. The role subsequently went to Nicholas Brendon.
- Spike's coat was purchased from an expensive store for $2,000; to give the garment the appropriate look, it was thrown onto the asphalt and run over by a truck several times.
- According to Alyson Hannigan, at the very beginning of filming, Joss Whedon asked her, Charisma Carpenter, and Sarah Michelle Gellar (all three actresses are dark-haired) who wanted to play the redhead, and Hannigan said she did.
- It is known that Joss Whedon plans plotlines well in advance, so hints at Dawn's return are present as early as the third season, while she herself does not appear until the fifth.
- The London accent spoken by Spike was coached for James Marsters by Anthony Head. In the actor's own speech, the London accent is noticeably more distinct than it is in the speech of his character.
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