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Unaired Buffy pilot
The non-broadcast pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was produced by 20th Century Fox in 1996 to pitch a series to networks. The thirty-minute production was written and directed by Buffy creator Joss Whedon.
After having burnt down her...
Original air date:
- 1996
Episode number:
- 0
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Welcome to the Hellmouth
"Welcome to the Hellmouth", the first in a two-part series opener, is episode 1 of season 1 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. See also List of Buffy (series) episodes. This episode, as well as the next, are the basis for the Buffy...
Original air date:
- Mar 10, 1997
Episode number:
- 1
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The Harvest
"The Harvest" is episode 2 in season 1 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was written by series' executive producer Joss Whedon and directed by John T. Kretchmer. The episode originally aired on March 10, 1997, along with "Welcome...
Original air date:
- Mar 10, 1997
Episode number:
- 2
Writer:
Witch
"Witch" is episode 3 of Season One of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy tries out for the cheerleading squad when a witch appears to be targeting competitors to take them out of the running.
Despite Giles' misgivings, Buffy...
Original air date:
- Mar 17, 1997
Episode number:
- 3
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Teacher's Pet
"Teacher's Pet" is episode 4 of season 1 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was written by David Greenwalt and directed by Bruce Seth Green. The episode originally aired on March 25, 1997, attracting 2.0 million viewers.
One...
Original air date:
- Mar 25, 1997
Episode number:
- 4
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Never Kill a Boy on the First Date
"Never Kill a Boy on the First Date" is episode 5 of season 1 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The Master reads an ancient prophecy to his minions:
And there will be a time of crisis, of worlds hanging in the balance. And in this...
Original air date:
- Mar 31, 1997
Episode number:
- 5
Director:
The Pack
"The Pack" is episode 6 of season 1 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
It's a terrific day to be out of school, except that Buffy and her Sunnydale High classmates are technically on a field trip to the zoo. A gang of four kids taunt...
Original air date:
- Apr 7, 1997
Episode number:
- 6
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Angel
"Angel" is episode 7 in season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The Master, displeased that Buffy is killing his vampires, sends a trio of warrior vampires called "The Three" after her. The Three ambush Buffy on her way home from the Bronze, but Angel...
Original air date:
- Apr 14, 1997
Episode number:
- 7
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I, Robot... You, Jane
"I, Robot...You, Jane" is episode 8 of season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The episode begins in a castle in Cortona, Italy, in 1418. We see Carlo, a young Italian man, looking at Moloch, a lizard-looking demon, his master. Moloch promises Carlo...
Original air date:
- Apr 28, 1997
Episode number:
- 8
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The Puppet Show
"The Puppet Show" is episode 9 in season 1 of the television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. See also List of Buffy (series) episodes.
The episode begins with a typical horror-movie shot from the POV of the villain, seeing a ballet dancer (Emily)...
Original air date:
- May 5, 1997
Episode number:
- 9
Director:
Nightmares
"Nightmares" is episode 10 of season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was written by David Greenwalt and directed by Bruce Seth Green. The episode originally aired on May 12, 1997, attracting 2.4 million viewers.
A comatose boy in the hospital...
Original air date:
- May 12, 1997
Episode number:
- 10
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Out of Mind, Out of Sight
"Out of Mind, Out of Sight", also known as "Invisible Girl", is the eleventh and penultimate episode in the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
An invisible forces is attacking people around school and Cordelia may be in danger; Buffy and...
Original air date:
- May 19, 1997
Episode number:
- 11
Director:
Prophecy Girl
"Prophecy Girl" is the season finale of the WB Television Network's first season of the drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the twelfth episode of the series. The episode first aired on June 2, 1997 with the series acting as a...
Original air date:
- Jun 2, 1997
Episode number:
- 12
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When She Was Bad
"When She Was Bad" is the first episode in the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy returns from her summer vacation showing textbook symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, brought on by her encounter with The Master in the Season...
Original air date:
- Sep 15, 1997
Episode number:
- 1
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Some Assembly Required
"Some Assembly Required" is episode 2 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy and Angel discover graves with missing bodies and evidence of grave robbing; some Sunnydale High students are constructing a girl from body parts. Giles and Jenny...
Original air date:
- Sep 22, 1997
Episode number:
- 2
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School Hard
"School Hard" is episode 3 of season 2 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
A new vampire by the name of Spike arrives in Sunnydale with his girlfriend, Drusilla, and is bent on killing Buffy. Principal Snyder makes Buffy set up for...
Original air date:
- Sep 29, 1997
Episode number:
- 3
Director:
Inca Mummy Girl
"Inca Mummy Girl" is Episode 4 of Season 2 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
To prepare for Sunnydale High's cultural exchange program, Buffy visits an Incan exhibit with her schoolmates. She is paired with an exchange student with...
Original air date:
- Oct 6, 1997
Episode number:
- 4
Director:
Reptile Boy
"Reptile Boy" is episode 5 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
A girl jumps out of a second-floor window of a frat house and chased into a cemetery, where she is caught. Meanwhile, Buffy's gang are happy with the apparent lack of activity on...
Original air date:
- Oct 13, 1997
Episode number:
- 5
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Halloween
"Halloween" is episode 6 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy and Angel finally agree to a date, but Buffy is delayed at Pop's Pumpkin Patch by a vampire. Another vampire films while hiding. As Angel waits at The Bronze, Cordelia shows up...
Original air date:
- Oct 27, 1997
Episode number:
- 6
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Lie to Me
"Lie to Me" is episode 7 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The episode opens on a playground with a little boy whom Drusilla approaches, intending to feed on him. Angel stops her and sends the boy home; realizing that if Drusilla and Spike...
Original air date:
- Nov 3, 1997
Episode number:
- 7
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The Dark Age
"The Dark Age" is episode 8 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
A man tries to get into the library to see Giles, but a demon woman shows up and strangles him to death. He falls to the floor, and she turns into a puddle of green slime.
At...
Original air date:
- Nov 10, 1997
Episode number:
- 8
Director:
What's My Line, Part One
"What's My Line, Part One" is episode 9 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In this episode, Buffy endures Career Week at school as a fierce fighter who identifies herself as "Kendra, the Vampire Slayer" shows up in Sunnydale. See also List of...
Original air date:
- Nov 17, 1997
Episode number:
- 9
Director:
What's My Line, Part Two
"What's My Line, Part Two" is episode 10 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy encounters another vampire slayer, while Angel is taken by Spike for a ritual in which Drusilla is restored to health. See also List of Buffy (series) episodes....
Original air date:
- Nov 17, 1997
Episode number:
- 10
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Ted
"Ted" is episode 11 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy, Xander and Willow walk to Buffy's house. Misinterpreting an odd situation, they find Joyce kissing a strange man. Joyce introduces her friend, Ted Buchanan, a salesman. He tells...
Original air date:
- Dec 8, 1997
Episode number:
- 11
Director:
Bad Eggs
"Bad Eggs" is episode 12 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy and her mother Joyce are at a mall discussing how inappropriate a dress is to wear. Joyce, realizing the stores are closing and she still has some necessary shopping to do,...
Original air date:
- Jan 12, 1998
Episode number:
- 12
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Surprise
"Surprise" is Episode 13 in Season 2 of the television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy has a vivid dream (a very undead Drusilla dusts Angel) which she fears is prophetic. Willow remembers why she can't go on a date with Oz and invites him...
Original air date:
- Jan 19, 1998
Episode number:
- 13
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Innocence
"Innocence" is Episode 14 of Season 2 on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. See also List of Buffy (series) episodes. This is renowned as the highest rated episode in the Series, attracting 8.2 million viewers
After making love with Buffy earlier that night,...
Original air date:
- Jan 20, 1998
Episode number:
- 14
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Phases
"Phases" is episode 15 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"Phases" begins with Willow's increasing frustration that Oz shows no sign of wanting to get serious — not to mention physical — with her. Cordelia is frustrated with Xander because he...
Original air date:
- Jan 27, 1998
Episode number:
- 15
Director:
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" is episode 16 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Cordelia decides to dump Xander when her friends mock her. Xander retaliates by attempting a love spell.
On her night patrol through a cemetery, Xander shows...
Original air date:
- Feb 10, 1998
Episode number:
- 16
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Passion
"Passion" is episode 17 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Learning that Angelus, with murderous intent, is circling closer to her friends and family, Buffy feverishly seeks ways to protect them. Though still ostracized, Jenny Calendar gives...
Original air date:
- Feb 24, 1998
Episode number:
- 17
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Killed by Death
"Killed by Death" is episode 18 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
After flu lands Buffy in the hospital, she rescues fevered children from Der Kindestod, a demon that turns out to have killed her cousin when she was younger and which gave her...
Original air date:
- Mar 3, 1998
Episode number:
- 18
Director:
I Only Have Eyes for You
"I Only Have Eyes for You" is episode 19 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A ghost possesses high school boys (and Buffy) while his school teacher-lover possesses high school girls (and Angelus).
This ghostly episode starts out at The Bronze...
Original air date:
- Apr 28, 1998
Episode number:
- 19
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Go Fish
"Go Fish" is episode 20 of season 2 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Xander goes undercover on the Sunnydale swim team after members begin turning up dead, after apparently being skinned alive. The swim-team coach gives fish...
Original air date:
- May 5, 1998
Episode number:
- 20
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Becoming, Part One
"Becoming" is the season finale of the WB Television Network's second season of the drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, consisting of the twenty-first and twenty-second episodes. They are also the thirty-third and thirty-fourth...
Original air date:
- May 12, 1998
Episode number:
- 21
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Becoming, Part Two
"Becoming, Part Two" is episode 22 of season 2 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is the second of a two-part season finale.
Buffy argues with her mother, is accused of Kendra's murder, and is expelled from school. Angelus'...
Original air date:
- May 19, 1998
Episode number:
- 22
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Anne
"Anne" is the first episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy has fled both Sunnydale and her duty; the Scoobies try to carry on without the Slayer.
Back in Sunnydale, lacking a Slayer, the Scooby gang tries to...
Original air date:
- Sep 29, 1998
Episode number:
- 1
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Dead Man's Party
"Dead Man's Party" is episode 2 of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy struggles with life back in Sunnydale; tension simmers with those around her; Joyce's mask does not help.
Joyce is hanging up a Nigerian mask given by...
Original air date:
- Oct 6, 1998
Episode number:
- 2
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Faith, Hope & Trick
"Faith, Hope & Trick" is the third episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The episode begins with Willow babbling to Oz about how they are seniors and now allowed to go off school campus for lunch. Still, it takes...
Original air date:
- Oct 13, 1998
Episode number:
- 3
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Beauty and the Beasts
"Beauty and the Beasts" is the fourth episode of Season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The night before a full moon, Willow reads from "Call of the Wild" to an agitated Oz, who is in his werewolf form and has been locked up in...
Original air date:
- Oct 20, 1998
Episode number:
- 4
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Homecoming
"Homecoming" is episode 5 of season 3 of the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The young Scoobies decide to share a limo for their last Homecoming dance. Buffy and Scott decide to go together. She takes an early leave to bring food to Angel, who is...
Original air date:
- Nov 3, 1998
Episode number:
- 5
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Band Candy
"Band Candy" is the sixth episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Sunnydale High students are coerced by Principal Snyder into selling chocolate bars to raise funds for the school band. As it turns out, Ethan Rayne is...
Original air date:
- Nov 10, 1998
Episode number:
- 6
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Revelations
"Revelations" is the seventh episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Gwendolyn Post shows up as Faith's new Watcher. She is British, strict, arrogant, and looks down on all the Scoobies and especially Giles. Despite this...
Original air date:
- Nov 17, 1998
Episode number:
- 7
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Lovers Walk
"Lovers Walk" is episode 8 of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing in a Series.
A lovelorn Spike returns and kidnaps Willow and Xander. Oz and Cordelia discover...
Original air date:
- Nov 24, 1998
Episode number:
- 8
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The Wish
"The Wish" is the ninth episode of season 3 on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Following Xander and Willow's kiss in "Lovers Walk", Oz has called a time-out on his relationship with Willow and Cordelia is decidedly avoiding any contact with Xander....
Original air date:
- Dec 8, 1998
Episode number:
- 9
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Amends
"Amends" is episode 10 of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
It's Christmas in Sunnydale and Angel is haunted with dreams of the people he murdered over the years as Angelus, but when Buffy starts getting dragged into his...
Original air date:
- Dec 15, 1998
Episode number:
- 10
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Gingerbread
"Gingerbread" is Episode 11 of Season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Haunted by her discovery of two murdered children, Joyce leads the town in a witch hunt.
While on the nightly patrol, Buffy not only encounters a vampire, but...
Original air date:
- Jan 12, 1999
Episode number:
- 11
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Helpless
"Helpless" is the twelfth episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy feels weak and is unable to carry out her duties as a slayer. When she goes to Giles for help he seems distracted. This is because he is, on the...
Original air date:
- Jan 19, 1999
Episode number:
- 12
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The Zeppo
"The Zeppo" is episode 13 of season 3 on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup in a Series.
Feeling left out by the gang, Xander befriends a psychotic student named Jack O'Toole. Meanwhile, the rest of...
Original air date:
- Jan 26, 1999
Episode number:
- 13
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Bad Girls
"Bad Girls" is Episode 14 of Season 3 of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Written by Douglas Petrie and directed by Michael Lange, it was originally broadcast on February 9, 1999 on the WB network. In "Bad Girls", Buffy gets a new Watcher,...
Original air date:
- Feb 9, 1999
Episode number:
- 14
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Consequences
"Consequences" is the 15th episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Faith's plan to hide her accidental murder in the last episode fails when Finch's body is quickly found. Wesley Wyndam-Price orders her and Buffy to...
Original air date:
- Feb 16, 1999
Episode number:
- 15
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Doppelgängland
"Doppelgangland" is episode 16 of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Episode 16 of season 3 revisits the alternate reality from episode 9, "The Wish," in which Buffy Summers never arrived in Sunnydale and vampires ruled the...
Original air date:
- Feb 23, 1999
Episode number:
- 16
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Enemies
"Enemies" is the 17th episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Faith plots to seduce Angel and remove his soul.
Buffy and Angel went to see a movie, Le Banquet D'Amelia (not a real film) which was very steamy and both are...
Original air date:
- Mar 16, 1999
Episode number:
- 17
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Choices
"Choices" is the 19th episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The gang ponder their future; Buffy tries to disrupt the Mayor's plans.
The Mayor gives Faith a knife for a gift in exchange for picking up a box at the...
Original air date:
- May 4, 1999
Episode number:
- 19
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The Prom
"The Prom" is Episode 20 in Season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy struggles to cope with Angel leaving her, as she tries to stop a student unleashing deadly hellhounds on Senior Prom night.
Buffy wakes up in Angel's bed at...
Original air date:
- May 11, 1999
Episode number:
- 20
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Graduation Day, Part One
"Graduation Day, Part One" is the 21st episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
While the Mayor prepares for his Ascension, Buffy battles Faith to save Angel's life.
As Graduation Day approaches, Sunnydale High enjoys a...
Original air date:
- May 18, 1999
Episode number:
- 21
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Graduation Day, Part Two
"Graduation Day, Part Two" is the 22nd episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy and the students of Sunnydale High battle the Mayor during their senior graduation.
After stabbing Faith, Buffy stands stunned for a...
Original air date:
- Jul 13, 1999
Episode number:
- 22
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Earshot
"Earshot" is the 18th episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
After coming into contact with the blood of a demon, Buffy develops the ability to hear other people's thoughts.
On patrol, Buffy runs into two demons that...
Original air date:
- Sep 21, 1999
Episode number:
- 18
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The Freshman
"The Freshman" is the first episode of season 4 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. While Willow blossoms in the college environment, Buffy has a difficult time adjusting and her Slaying suffers because of it.
Episode one of season four...
Original air date:
- Oct 5, 1999
Episode number:
- 1
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Living Conditions
"Living Conditions" is the second episode of season 4 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy becomes convinced that her annoying roommate is evil, but her friends think she is crazy.
Episode two of season four opens in Buffy's dorm...
Original air date:
- Oct 12, 1999
Episode number:
- 2
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The Harsh Light of Day
"The Harsh Light of Day" is the third episode of season 4 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Written by Jane Espenson and directed by James A. Contner, it originally aired on the WB network on October 19, 1999. In "The Harsh Light of...
Original air date:
- Oct 19, 1999
Episode number:
- 3
