Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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| creator = Joss Whedon | starring = Sarah Michelle Gellar
Alyson Hannigan
Nicholas Brendon
Anthony Stewart Head
James Marsters
Emma Caulfield
Amber Benson
Michelle Trachtenberg
Charisma Carpenter
David Boreanaz
Seth Green
Marc Blucas | country = United States | network = The WB (1997-2001), UPN (2001-2003) | first_aired = March 10, 1997 | last_aired = May 20, 2003 | num_episodes = 144 | imdb_id = 0118276
|}}Template:Portal Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American television series loosely based on the 1992 movie of the same name. The original concept, screenplay, and TV series were created by writer/director Joss Whedon. It was the first product of Whedon's company, Mutant Enemy Productions. The show's title is often abbreviated simply to Buffy or BtVS.
The series follows the day-to-day life of Buffy Summers, a teenage girl chosen by fate to battle against vampires, demons, and other supernatural foes. She is often aided by her Watcher and her loyal circle of misfit friends.
The first five Seasons of the series aired on The WB; after a network change, the final two seasons aired on UPN. The series now airs daily in worldwide syndication. The series finale aired in May 2003.
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Origins
Image:TVGuidebuffy.jpg Writer Joss Whedon developed Buffy as an intentional departure from the traditional horror film formula. Typical horror movies include young blonde girls as helpless, hysterical victims. Whedon's vision featured a young woman who was not only an exceptional fighter but also a powerful leader, without sacrificing her femininity. By reversing the cliché of the helpless female victim, Buffy presented an alternative paradigm embraced by many as an emblem of female power - in Whedon's narrative, Buffy's male friend Xander is more likely to need rescuing, while Buffy is more than capable of looking after herself and those around her. However, her personal life is as painful and confusing as any teenage girl's. This combination of empowerment and empathy has earned Buffy a passionate following among fans, earning the show a cult status.
Whedon's other "mission statement" was to employ supernatural elements as metaphors for personal anxieties, particularly those associated with adolescence and young adulthood. Throughout its run, the show developed a substantial contemporary mythology, and addressed a large number of common emotional and cultural themes.
On the basis of the unaired Buffy pilot, the WB Network bought the show. The WB advertised the show with a History of the Slayer promotional video clip. Buffy the Vampire Slayer first aired on March 10, 1997 on the WB network; after five seasons it transferred to the United Paramount Network (UPN) for its final two seasons. The last episode aired on May 20 2003. Buffy is credited with playing a key role in the growth of the Warner Bros. television network in its early years. The show maintained relatively low ratings (typically lower than 90th place per week), but attracted a great deal of attention and performed well in key youth demographics.
Format and themes
The series tells the story of Buffy and her friends as they battle demons and other supernatural evils while negotiating their own complicated social and romantic lives. Buffy is told in a dual arc serialized format, with each episode both telling a single story and contibuting to a larger overall storyline, which on Buffy is distinctinly broken down into season-long narratives marked by the rise and defeat of a powerful antagonist (the "Big Bad"). Individual episodes usually contain one or more villians, monsters, or supernatural phenomena which are defeated (or driven away) by the episode's end. Though many elements and relationships are explored and many ongoing subplots are included, the show's primary focus throughout is on Buffy and her role as an archetypal hero.
The show is noteworthy in part for its blending of genres, including horror, martial arts, romance, melodrama, farce, screwball comedy, and even (in one memorable episode) musical comedy. Unlike the movie, which, for the most part, was poorly received and practically disowned by Whedon, the TV series achieved great popular and critical success, appreciated equally by mainstream TV critics and its target audience of young viewers. Fans of the show attribute its success to smart writing, a strong sense of ongoing story, and a sense of deeper meaning lacking in most television products. Whedon has said "I designed Buffy to be an icon" and "the shows are intentionally designed to create cults" The show and characters inspire an unusually strong emotional connection with fans.
Buffy has also been noted for taking risks with both its format and content. The 1999 episode "Hush" included 26 minutes without any spoken dialog, and received an Emmy Award nomination for best teleplay. The 2001 episode "The Body" revolved around the death of Buffy's mother, and was filmed in a stark Dogme inspired style and with no musical score, only diegetic music; it was included in over 100 major critics' Ten Best lists that year. The fall 2001 musical episode "Once More, with Feeling", which was accidentally left off the Emmy ballots, also received many plaudits. [1] All three episodes were written and directed by Joss Whedon, and are frequently cited as fan favorites.
Monsters
The most prominent monsters in the Buffy bestiary are vampires, who are presented in the show in a variety of ways, selectively following traditional myths, lore, and literary conventions. Buffy and her companions also fight a wide variety of demons, shape-shifters, ghosts, gods, zombies, witches, and each other. They are called upon to save the world from annihilation so often that they find themselves, as the character Riley Finn puts it, "needing to know the plural of apocalypse". [2] The mythology of the show is often inspired by classical supernatural tales and other cultural, fictional, and religious sources. In its seven-year run, the series also developed an extensive contemporary mythology of its own. The supernatural elements of the show almost always have a clear metaphorical or symbolic aspect (see Metaphorical nature and moral connotations for more on this).
Buffy and her friends battle dark forces using a combination of physical combat, magic, detective-style investigation, and extensive research of ancient and mystical reference books. Hand-to-hand combat is chiefly undertaken by Buffy, Angel and later, Spike. Willow eventually becomes an adept witch, while Giles contributes his extensive knowledge of demonology and supernatural lore. Xander, whose primary responsibility may appear to be fetching doughnuts, is an Everyman character who provides perspective and grounding for the others.
Setting
The show is set in the fictional California town of Sunnydale (roughly analogous to Santa Barbara), whose suburban Sunnydale High School rests on the site of a "Hellmouth", a gateway between our world and the realm of demons. The Hellmouth serves as a nexus for a wide variety of evil creatures and supernatural phenomena, and lies directly beneath the school library (later, in a reconstructed school, beneath the Principal's office).
In addition to being an open-ended plot device, Joss Whedon has cited the Hellmouth as one of his primary metaphors in creating the series, suggesting that a large number of contemporary teenagers feel that their own high school is a sinister, threatening place.
The high school used in the first three seasons is actually Torrance High School, in Torrance, California. The school exterior is frequently used in other television shows and movies, most notably Beverly Hills 90210, Bring It On, and the spoof, Not Another Teen Movie.
In addition to the high school and its library, action frequently takes place in many of the town's cemeteries, local nightclub The Bronze, and Buffy and her mother's home, where many of the characters also live at various points in the series.
Continuity
Whedon has professed to be a fan of serialized fiction, and, to this end, each season follows a largely self-contained story arc with its own unique villain. This "Big Bad" is often preceded by a "Little Bad", a minor villain introduced to throw viewers off-track. The writers paid close attention to continuity and consistency within Buffy's universe; references to events of earlier seasons occur both as throwaway jokes and as major plot devices.
Metaphorical nature and moral connotations
Many Buffy stories are thinly veiled metaphors for the anxieties and ordeals of adolescence or young adulthood. In "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" invisibility is used as a metaphor for being ignored. In "The Pack", Xander and other teens become possessed by hyenas, which allegorizes the pack mentality that often results from negative peer pressure. The tragic love affair between the vampire Angel and Buffy was fraught with metaphorical elements, the most noteworthy of which occurred when their first sexual consummation resulted in the vampire losing his soul and becoming a murderous villain. As Sarah Michelle Gellar puts it:
"That's the ultimate metaphor. You sleep with a guy and he turns bad on you."
— Bye-Bye Buffy on 2003-05-20 at CBS News
The show has also garnered criticism for this and other ostensibly "puritanical" subtexts. [3] However, Whedon argues that rather than endorsing a particular moral stance, the show is much more concerned with consequences and the role they play in gratifying the audience's emotional investment in the story — though this gratification is seldom a simple matter of wish fulfilment:
[ I ] Don't give people what they want, [ I ] give them what they need.
He continues:
What they want is for Sam and Diane to get together. [...] Don't give it to them. Trust me. [...] No one's going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce. People want the tragedy. [...] Things have to go wrong, bad things have to happen.
—Interview for The Onion AV Club
While fans may joke about characters being punished for sex, Whedon has insisted that the show must "earn" its emotional moments, and that he and his writers are more concerned with exploring the dramatic consequences of actions than making broad moral statements. Buffy's resurrection in season six is not a simple plot device; it sends ripples through the last two seasons of the show. These include both supernatural repercussions (a killer demon follows her back from the afterlife), and emotional fallout (Buffy suffers from severe depression and isolation after being called back from Heaven by her well-meaning friends). The ongoing exploration of choices and consequences in life, depicted both literally and metaphorically, constitutes what Joss Whedon refers to as one of the show's many "mission statements".
Over the course of its seven seasons, Buffy engaged with a number of social issues, most notably (and controversially) the question of sexuality, and has received a great deal of critical attention — from fans, critics and the academic community — for its treatment.
Influences
Whedon has often noted the impact of comic books on his work. He is writing for the Astonishing X-Men series and has credited Kitty Pryde, whom he handles in that series, as a significant influence on the character of Buffy and some of his other female characters. In addition, comics such as Superman and Spider-Man explore similar themes, particularly those relating to the tension between the duties of a superhero and the more mundane concerns of their "ordinary" alter ego.
Other influences include My So-Called Life, whose sympathetic portrayal of teen anxieties served as an acknowledged template for Buffy ("I'm basically trying to write My So-Called Life with vampires" [4]), and the "monster of the week" storylines of The X-Files. Whedon has also cited cult film Night of the Comet as a "big influence" on Buffy. [5]
Developed spinoffs
Buffy has inspired a whole "industry" of television shows, books, comics and games. A timeline listing when these stories take place in relation to each other can be traced in Buffyverse chronology.
Angel
Buffy's perpetually tragic, doomed love for the vampire-with-a-soul, Angel, played by David Boreanaz, was a recurrent theme in the first three seasons of the show. Angelus, as he was originally known, had his human soul restored by a gypsy curse, plaguing him with guilt over the one hundred and forty-five years of murder and mayhem he had inflicted on a slew of innocent victims. The Angel character was so popular that a series featuring him, Angel, was spun off from Buffy. There were occasional "crossovers" between the two shows and these continued into the final season of Angel even though Buffy was no longer on the air.
Comics
There are a number of Buffyverse comics, many of which are set at precise times within the Buffyverse chronology. For example, the Buffy comic, Ring of Fire, written by Doug Petrie, is specifically placed in Buffy's second season, after Angel has reverted to Angelus and killed Jenny Calendar, but before his grand plans for apocalypse. Joss Whedon wrote an eight-issue miniseries for Dark Horse Comics entitled Fray, about a futuristic vampire slayer. Its final issue came out in August 2003.
Novels
After Buffy started to gain popularity in its second season, Pocket Books bought the rights to license novels based on the show. While these are not considered Buffyverse canon, they are usually approved by Whedon, and are heavily edited to conform to the known rules of Buffy's world. On occasion, the lore developed in the novels may conflict with that developed in the TV show. For instance, in Christopher Golden's novel Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row, which was written before the episode "Fool for Love" aired in the fifth season of the show, the second Slayer Spike kills is from Denmark, whereas in "Fool For Love" she (Nikki Wood) is American. In some cases, the novels foreshadow events that take place later in the TV show. For instance, Immortal, by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder, anticipates Joyce Summers' illness and Buffy's helplessness in the face of that illness in season five. A cassette-only audiobook of Immortal, narrated by Charisma Carpenter, has also been released. Since the last episode of Buffy, the novels continue to thrive, covering events both after the final episode (such as Buffy training new Slayers in Nancy Holder's Queen of the Slayers), as well as returning to high school in previous seasons, and even fleshing out the history of other Slayers such as Nikki Wood in Blackout and Faith in Go Ask Malice. For issues surrounding the recognition of these novels by Buffy fans see Buffyverse canon.
Others
Buffy has inspired several magazines and companion books, as well as countless websites, online discussion forums, and works of fan fiction. Eden Studios have published a Buffy role-playing game. There have now been four Buffy video games released on a number of different platforms. There have also been two soundtrack albums (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Radio Sunnydale - Music from the TV Series), as well as a CD (and, in Europe, DVD single) of the "Once More, with Feeling" musical episode.
Undeveloped spinoffs
Spike movie
As of August 2005, the possibility of a TV movie involving Spike (to be written and directed by Tim Minear) was still being mooted. [6]
Ripper
A British miniseries based on the adventures of Rupert Giles (Ripper) has been talked about for years, but remains undeveloped.
Buffy the Animated Series
Based on Buffy's first year in Sunnydale, the show was in development from 2001-5, and a four-minute pilot was completed in 2004. However, so far the series has not been picked up by a network, and in a late September interview with TV Guide in 2005, Whedon effectively announced that the animated series was dead. [7]
Faith the Vampire Slayer
The possibility of a spin-off series based on the Faith character was discussed, but actress Eliza Dushku instead committed to the Fox series Tru Calling (which was cancelled in 2005).
Legacy
Academic works
The show is notable for attracting the interest of scholars of popular culture. [8] It has inspired several academic books and essays, including Reading the Vampire Slayer, edited by Roz Kaveney, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy, edited by James B. South. There is also an online refereed journal, Slayage, dedicated to critical studies of the show. An academic discipline known as Buffy Studies developed during the late 1990s which encouraged the development of scholarship and courses exploring Girl Power in popular culture, and Buffy is often considered to be an illustrative "text" in Third Wave Feminist theory. Fans of both Buffy and Angel often use the term "Buffyverse" to describe the detailed fictional universe the shows share.
Parodies and references
There have been a number of spoofs of the show, including a Hobbit themed rewriting of "Once More, with Feeling" entitled "Once More With Hobbits", and a Saturday Night Live sketch, which relocated the Slayer, played by guest host Sarah Michelle Gellar, to the Seinfeld universe. MADtv featured a "Buffy the Umpire Slayer" sketch, in which Buffy (played by series regular Nicole Sullivan) slew umpires in high school baseball games.
The series, which employed pop-culture references as a frequent humorous device, has itself become a frequent pop-culture reference in other works. A Friends episode featured Ursula, Phoebe's twin sister, in a pornographic movie entitled Phoebe Buffay in: Buffay the Vampire Layer; and the Sluggy Freelance webcomic featured a storyline called "Muffin the Vampire Baker". There was also a passing reference to a play "Buffus: The Bacchae Slayer" on an episode of Xena: Warrior Princess (a reciprocal reference to Xena appeared in the second season Buffy episode "Halloween"); there are also a number of references to Buffy in Will & Grace.
Webcomic The Wotch [9] has drawn a lot of inspiration from Buffy, most notably their take on lycanthropy, and one of the villains wearing VampWillow's outfit from "The Wish" and "Dōppelgandland". In additon, the main characters are fans of the show and reference it, Angel, and Firefly often.
In 2001, the first Buffy fan-film appeared on the Internet: a "no-budget" 20-minute production entitled Fluffy the English Vampire Slayer, created by a group of amateur filmmakers in England. The story featured English vampire slayer Fluffy, her friends Alex and Ash, and American Watcher Farmer battling against Count Von Whedon, who uses the Ring of Gellar to become invincible.
In "Thirst", a fifth season episode of the WB television series, Smallville, vampires are created by a Kryptonite-mutated rabies virus. One such vampire is named Buffy Saunders, and, at the end of the episode, another character (played by Carrie Fisher) mentions "slaying Buffy the vampire", a clear reference to the show. Also, James Marsters has a guest-starring role in the episode, and boldly proclaims to Clark Kent that "there's no such thing as vampires", an ironic reference considering that he portrayed Spike, a vampire, in Buffy.
In the first season Charmed episode, "The Power of Two", lead characters Prue and Phoebe look for a ghost's dead body in a cemetery at night, and Phoebe asks Prue, "Where's Buffy when you need her?". Incidentally, the actor who played Prue, Shannen Doherty, is one of Gellar's closest friends.
In 2005, a Trans-Neptunian object [[2004 XR190|Template:Mp]] was unofficially named "Buffy", after the main character of the series.
Unsurprisingly, references to the show also appear in video games, including a decorative statue in the MMORPG Anarchy Online called the "Marble Statue of the Goddess Buffy Summers". Buffy was also referenced in the 2004 video game The X-Files: Resist or Serve.[10]
Similar works
Buffy has exerted a marked influence on TV and film, with shows such as Smallville, Roswell, and Ghost Whisperer, as well as movies such as The Faculty and Bring It On owing something in their themes, devices, and verbal style to the show. The mythology of the series has also influenced other series, notably Cartoon Network's The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, and Sky's Hex. Another animated series that was inspired by Buffy is the Disney Channel/ABC Family show Kim Possible.
In addition, many Buffy alumni have gone on to write for or create other shows, some of which bear a notable resemblance to the style and concepts of Buffy. Such Whedonesque endeavors include Tru Calling (Douglas Petrie, Jane Espenson), Wonderfalls (Tim Minear), Point Pleasant (Marti Noxon), Jake 2.0 (David Greenwalt) and The Inside (Tim Minear).
Moreover, Autumn 2003 saw a number of new shows going into production in the US that featured strong girls/young women forced to come to terms with some supernatural power or destiny while trying to maintain a normal life. These "post-Buffy" shows include the aforementioned Tru Calling and Wonderfalls, as well as Dead Like Me and Joan of Arcadia. In the words of Bryan Fuller, the creator of Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls:
- [Buffy] really turned a corner for series storytelling. It showed that young women could be in situations that were both fantastic and relatable, and instead of shunting women off to the side, it put them at the center.
In 2004, yet another series in this mold premiered: Veronica Mars, created by Rob Thomas. This series features the teenage daughter of a private investigator, who undertakes her own investigations in and around the high school she attends. The series has guest-starred Buffy alumnae Alyson Hannigan and Charisma Carpenter, and, in its 2005 second season, Buffy creator Joss Whedon, who has described the series as the "Best. Show. Ever." [11]
Characters
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Main characters
Buffy is "The Slayer", one in a long line of young girls chosen by fate to battle evil forces. This calling also mystically endows her with dramatically increased physical strength, endurance, agility, intuition, accelerated healing, and a limited degree of clairvoyance, usually in the form of prophetic dreams.
Giles (rarely referred to by his first name) is a Watcher, a member of an academic council whose job has been to train the Slayers. Giles researches the supernatural creatures that Buffy must face, offering insights into their origins and advice on how to kill them.
Willow was originally a nerdy girl who countered Buffy's beautiful blonde cheerleader popularity but also reflected the social isolation Buffy suffered as a Slayer. As the seasons progressed, Willow became a more aggressive, active, and even sensual character, becoming a Wiccan and a lesbian.
Xander primarily functions as comic relief, but also provides a grounded, level-headed perspective in the supernatural Buffyverse. He is the most "normal" character in the group, an average individual without any supernatural abilities or special skills to give him an edge in demon hunting.
- Buffy and Willow are the only two characters who appeared in every episode of all seven seasons.
Recurring characters
By alphabetical order in surnames, when available.
- Angel (David Boreanaz) (seasons 1-3; guest stars occasionally in seasons 4, 5 and 7)
Angelus was one of the most evil vampires in history before being cursed with a soul after murdering a Gypsy girl. Renamed Angel, he went into hiding for nearly a century, before emerging to help Buffy in her mission. However, Angel's curse dictated that should he ever achieve a moment of pure happiness, he would lose his humanity again. When he and Buffy have sex, Angel turns back into his evil Angelus character and becomes Buffy's main antagonist in the second season. After season 3, he leaves Sunnydale for LA, where his own series is set.
- Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter) (seasons 1-3)
Cordelia is the anti-Buffy, a beautiful rich brunette who was one of the most popular girls at Sunnydale High. She is tactless, but her directness is also funny and, at times, a necessary corrective. Cordelia acts both as Buffy's competition and her ally. Though she and Xander are at first antagonistic to one another, they end up dating in season 2. After graduating from high school, she leaves for LA where she joins Angel in his own series.
- Riley Finn (Marc Blucas) (seasons 4-5; guest stars in one episode of season 6)
Riley is Buffy's first serious boyfriend after Angel. He is the commander of a military organisation called "The Initiative" that uses science and military technology to hunt down "sub-terrestrials" (demons). Riley is Angel's opposite, an Iowa-born-and-raised gentleman whose strength lies in his Captain America-style military secret identity.
- Anya Jenkins (Emma Caulfield) (seasons 3-7)
Anya is a former vengeance demon (Anyanka) who specialized in aiding scorned women. She eventually loses her demon ranking (on and off throughout the series) and becomes trapped as an ordinary woman, slowly regaining her human emotions. Her "ignorance" of human relationships is portrayed as both comical and poignant. She and Xander eventually become a couple, nearly marrying. She is killed in the final episode of Buffy.
- Faith Lehane (Eliza Dushku) (seasons 3,4 and 7)
Faith is the slayer who was brought forth when Kendra was killed by the vampire Drusilla. To begin with, she fought on the side of good with Buffy and the rest of the Scooby gang, but she was soon drawn to the dark side and joined forces with The Mayor. Faith was put in to a coma by Buffy for 9 months until she woke and swapped bodies with Buffy. After being defeated she fled to L.A and went to prison. 3 years later she was broke out of prison by Wesley Wyndam-Pryce to help fight evil once again (The Beast in Angel & The First in Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
- Tara Maclay (Amber Benson) (seasons 4-6)
Tara is introduced first as a fellow member of a Wicca group during Willow's first year of college, their friendship eventually turning into a lesbian relationship. Tara as a character is quiet and maternal compared to the more outgoing and sometimes childish Buffy, Cordelia, and Willow. When Tara is killed by Warren Mears, it sends Willow on a murderous rampage.
- Daniel "Oz" Osbourne (Seth Green) (seasons 2-4)
Oz is Willow's first boyfriend, caught in a love triangle with Xander over Willow. Oz is a werewolf, and his curse often puts Willow in the position of caretaker for her boyfriend. Oz as a boyfriend is pensive yet supportive. Because he cannot fully control his werewolf side, he eventually leaves Willow and the series, making room for Willow's relationship with Tara.
- Spike (James Marsters) (seasons 2-7)
Spike (aka William the Bloody because of his "bloody awful" poetry) is a member of Angel's vampire "family" who becomes a major villain as the series progresses. Spike provides a counterpoint to Angel; while Angel is dark and brooding, Spike is wild and reckless, his character bearing a resemblance to Billy Idol. In season 4, Spike is captured by the Initiative and implanted with a chip that prevents him from feeding (a powerful castration symbol). His role varies from enemy to comic relief to ally to love interest for Buffy.
- Dawn Summers (Michelle Trachtenberg) (seasons 5-7)
Sent to Buffy for protection from Glorificus as a sister, Dawn is the "Key" to other dimensions given human form. Dawn is a typical teenage girl, maturing as the show progresses. While the gang eventually discovers that Dawn has been magically implanted into their lives and memories, they come to accept and even love her as Buffy's sister.
- Joyce Summers (Kristine Sutherland) (seasons 1-5, appears in one episode each of seasons 6 and 7)
Buffy's mother is an anchor of normality in the Scoobies' lives, even after she learns of Buffy's role in the supernatural world ("Becoming, Part Two"). In "Lover's Walk", she lends a sympathetic ear to Spike's heartbreak, a gesture that he will never forget. In season 5, she dies of an aneurysm after a tumor is removed from her brain ("The Body"). The character of Joyce appears in later seasons, but without the character truly returning from the dead.
Other characters
Drusilla (Juliet Landau), Jenny Calendar (Robia La Morte), Kendra (Bianca Lawson), Wesley Wyndam Pryce (Alexis Denisof), Kennedy (Lyari Limon), Andrew (Tom Lenk), Glory (Claire Kramer), Harmony Kendall (Mercedes Mcnab).
Series information
Episodes
DVD releases
| DVD | Release Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US | UK | Australia | |
| The Complete First Season | 15 Jan 2002 | 27 Nov 2000 | 20 Nov 2000 |
| The Complete Second Season | 11 Jun 2002 | 21 May 2001 | 15 Jun 2001 |
| The Complete Third Season | 7 Jan 2003 | 29 Oct 2001 | 22 Nov 2001 |
| The Complete Fourth Season | 10 Jun 2003 | 13 May 2002 | 20 May 2002 |
| The Complete Fifth Season | 9 Dec 2003 | 28 Oct 2002 | 29 Nov 2002 |
| The Complete Sixth Season | 25 May 2004 | 12 May 2003 | 20 April 2003 |
| The Complete Seventh Season | 16 Nov 2004 | 5 April 2004 | 15 May 2004 |
| The Chosen Collection (Seasons 1-7) | 15 Nov 2005 | -- | |
| The Complete DVD Collection (Seasons 1-7) | -- | 31 Oct 2005 | 23 Nov 2005 |
Awards and nominations
References
Articles
Books
Popular
- The Book of Fours, Nancy Holder (ISBN 0743412400)
- Chosen, (season seven novelization) Nancy Holder (ISBN 0689866259)
- Cursed, Mel Odom (ISBN 068986437x)
- Doomsday Deck, Diana G. Gallagher, (ISBN 0743400410)
- Halloween Rain, Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder (ISBN 0671017136)
- Heat, Nancy Holder (ISBN 068986017x)
- Immortal, Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder (ISBN 0671041754)
- Monster Island, Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski (ISBN 0689856652)
- Mortal Fear, Scott and Denise Ciencin, (ISBN 0743427718)
- Night of the Living Rerun, Arthur Byron Cover, (ISBN 0671017152)
- Night Terrors, Alice Henderson, (ISBN 1416909273)
- Oz Into The Wind, Christopher Golden (ISBN 0743400380)
- Pretty Maids All in a Row, Christopher Golden (ISBN 0743418921)
- Queen of the Slayers, Nancy Holder (ISBN 1416902414)
- The Quotable Slayer, Steven Brezenoff and Micol Ostow (compilers) (ISBN 0743410173)
- Return to Chaos, Craig Shaw Gardner (ISBN 0671021362)
- Seven Crows, John Vornholt (ISBN 0689860145)
- Slayer Slang: A Buffy The Vampire Slayer Lexicon, Michael Adams (ISBN 0195160339)
- Spark and Burn, Diana G. Gallagher (ISBN 141690056x)
- Visitors, Laura Anne Gilman and Josepha Sherman, (ISBN 0671026283)
- What Would Buffy Do: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide, Jana Riess (ISBN 0787969222)
- Why Buffy Matters, Rhonda Wilcox (ISBN 1845110293)
Academic
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale, James B. South (ed), Open Court Publishing 2003 (ISBN 0812695313) (philosophy)
- Sex And The Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer For The Buffy Fan, Lorna Jowett, Wesleyan University Press 2005 (ISBN 0819567582) (Gender Studies)
- Fighting The Forces: What's At Stake In Buffy The Vampire Slayer?, Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery (eds), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2002 (ISBN 0742516814) (Cultural studies)
- Reading the Vampire Slayer : The Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel, Roz Kaveney (ed), Tauris Parke Paperbacks 2002 (ISBN 1860647626) (Cultural studies)
- Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show, Glenn Yeffeth (ed), Benbella Books 2003 (ISBN 1932100083) (Cultural studies)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Anne Billson, University of California Press 2005 (ISBN 1844570894) (Cultural Studies)
External links
Official websites
Unofficial websites
- Next Tuesday: Fanfiction 'Virtual Series' picks BtVS up in Season Eight
- Where Do We Go From Here?: Virtual Season 8 for BtVS
- Buffy World Forum
- TV.com Buffy Section
- Stakes and Salvation: A Concise Encyclopedia to the Buffyverse
- Buffyguide.com - Episode Guide
- Buffyverse Dialogue Database
- Radiobuffy.com - Buffy Radio
- The Buffy Body Count – includes episode transcripts
- Slayage.tv - Buffy Academic Essays
- Slayage.com - Buffy News
- All Things Philosophical on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Buffy Trivia
- The BBC Cult Buffy Section
- Whedonesque: Joss Whedon weblog
- WhedonWiki: the Joss Whedon Wiki
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