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Here you can see all episodes in Season 1. Each guide will include a breif overveiw of the episode, a quote, cast and crew and a look at how it fits within the whole season, or series.

Buffy and her mother arrive in Sunnydale after leaving LA and Buffy's previous school Hemary High. Upon starting her new school, Sunnydale High, Buffy is assured that the fact that she was expelled from her last school for burning down the gym won't be held against her. It is then that Buffy meets the delightful Miss Cordelia Chase, initally befriending her, until she extends the hand of friendship to Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris, considered 'nerds' by Cordelia and the Cordettes. It is also in this episode that we meet Giles, the libarian and Buffy's watcher, for the first time. He initally confronts her with a heavy volume labled 'Vampyr', causing her to run from the libary. Unfortunalty she is forced to return 'due to the extreme dead guy in Aura's locker'. But shows her obivous dislike for the place.

Later that evening we meet Angel breifly, when he follows Buffy to warn her the harvest is coming and give her a silver cross, this is, of course, not the first time Angel has seen Buffy, having watched her get 'chosen' in LA. Buffy ignores Angel and goes to the 'Bronze', a local club, hoping to leave her vampire experiances with her father in LA.

In a sunken church, underneath the Libary, Luke, a vampire, awakens the master in preparation for the harvest. The Master is a very old vampire who has been trapped in the church for 60 years, due to him geting stuck while trying to open the mouth of hell.

Luke sends vampires out to find food for the newly risen Master, the vampires lure Jesse and Willow into their trap, Buffy manages to save Willow, but Jesse is taken. Buffy goes to rescue Jesse, followed by Xander, however when they find him he's been 'sired'. Thankfully they escape.

During this time Giles and Willow have been researching, with thier information they set out to stop The Harvest. The vampires are attaking the Bronze, Buffy succeeds in killing Luke, amoung others, and the Harvest is prevented. Xander killed Jesse, but Darla survived.

Cordelia- Its in the bad part of town.

Buffy- Where's that?

Cordelia- About half a block from the good part of town, we don't have a lot of town.

Buffy- Hi.

Willow- Why? I mean Hi. Do you want me to move?

Buffy- OK lets start with hi, I'm Buffy, then head straight into me asking you for a favour, it doesn't involve moving, but it does involve hanging out with me for a while.

Willow- But aren't you hanging round with Cordelia?

Buffy- I can't do both?

Willow- Not legally.

During this epiosde Buffy carries a stake, Giles, Willow and Xander are all equiped with Holy water, stakes and crosses at varois points. We see Buffy's limited weapons supplies in her trunk, this includes garlic, holy water, crosses and stakes. Buffy also beheads a vampire with a cymbal.

Cast and crew

Buffy- Sarah Michelle Gellar

Xander- Nicholas Bredon

Willow- Alyson Hannigan

Cordelia- Charisma Carpenter

Giles- Anthony Stewart Head

Master- Mark Metclef

Luke- Brian Tompson

Angel- David Boreanaz

Principal Flutie- Ken Lerner

Joyce Summers- Kristine Sitherland

Darla- Julie Benz

Writer- Joss Whedon

Director- Charles Martin Smith and John Kretchmer

The Big Picture

Watchers of the film will find the constant referances to Buffy burning down the gym of her high school inconsistant as this never happened in the film. This is because Joss was writing from his origanal script, not the actual, film. This is also the first time we see Angel, a seemingly insignificant character, yet will go on to become a large part of Bufy's life. This episode also features the first of Buffy's dreams, this will be revisited many times in the future.

Slaying + Cheerleading = Ewwww. During this episode, in a bid to have a next to normal life, Buffy decides to try out for the cheerleading squad, much to Giles' discust. However during the first audiction one of the girls spontanouly combusts. Meanwhile Amy Madison is under feice pressure from her mother, former cheerleader, to make the team. Much to her, and her mothers, dissapointment she only makes 3rd alternate. And sure enough 3 people are forced to drop out. Buffy turns into a gibbering idiot, and is nearly killed, Cordelia loses all sight and Lishannes mouths is sealed over.

Putting two and two together, Buffy and Gilkes rush to the Madisons house to confront the mother. When they arrive, however, it is soon clear that it isn't Amy who's casting spells, it her mother in her body. Fortunatly Giles can reverse the spells. However while doing this Amy/her mother, tries her hardest to stop them, using all sorts of magics. Buffy succeeds in reversing one of the spells to affect the mother and she is trapped inside the cheerleading trophe she gained years ago.

Quotes

Xander- I laugh in the face of danger, then hide until it goes away.

Buffy- Mom, I accepted that you've had sex. I'm not ready to know you had farrah hair.

Joyce- This is Gidget hair, don't they teach you anything in History?

Weapons!

Very few weapons are used in this episode other than magic.

Cast and Crew

Buffy- Sarah Michelle Gellar

Xander- Nicholas Brendon

Willow- Alyson Hannigan

Cordelia- Charisma Carpenter

Giles- Anthony Stewart Head

Joyce Summers- Kristine Sutherland

Amy- Elizabeth Anne Allen

Cathrine Madison- Robin Riker

Writer- Dane Reston

Director- Stephen Cragg

The Big Picture

This is the first time Willow used the term 'Slayerettes', something that will be used right up to Season 7. Giles' occult knowledge is first investigated, altough he claims the spell to reverse all of Cathrine/Amy's spells was his first, this is later proved false in later episodes.

Buffy is assured by her Biology teacher that he has faith in her, despite her record. Unfortunatly by the next day he is found dead in the frezers in Sunnydale High canteen, absent a head. His subsitue, Miss French, has all of the boys in his class turned to gibbering fools. The first suspect is a vampire called Claw, due to his claw in place of his hand. However when he runs from Miss French during Buffy's patrol, she begins to think something else is up.

Buffy suspects she may be a Praying Mantis, due to her amazing neck, as in it can turn 180 degrees, and the fact they have studied little else since she took over the class. Giles seeks advise from a mad friend who had claimed to fight a She-Mantis, as he called it. However while coming to the conclusion that Miss French is indeed one of these creatures, she has captured both Xnader and Blyne, with the intent of mating and then killing them. Thankfully Buffy kills the She-Mantis and Xnader and Blyne survive.

Quotes

Giles- You were right all along about everything... Well no you weren't right about your mother coming back as a pekinese.

Xander- Well this is fun. We're on Monster Island

Weapons!

Buffy uses a machete and a recording of Bat sonar. Xander attacks the She-Mantis with a bar from the age.

The Big Picture

Xanders fallin in love with the She-Mantis is a running joke throughout the series.

Cast and Crew

Buffy- Sarah Michelle Gellar

Xander- Nicholas Brendon

Willow- Alyson Hannigan

Cordelia- Charisma Carpenter

Giles- Anthony Stewart Head

Angel- David Boreanaz

Principal Flutie- Ken Lerner

Natile French- Musetta Vander

Blayne- Jackson Price

Claw- Jean Spangel Howard

Dr Gregory- William Manahan

The Master is again trying to ruin Buffy's chances of a normal life. This time he wishes to raise the Annointed one. Who will in turn lead Buffy to him. However Buffy has killed a member of the Order of Aurelius, propheciesed to find the Annointed one. 

Buffy is more interested in dating Owen Thurman, a quiet student who enjoys reading Emily Dickenson, on the same night that the Annointed is set to rise. Only it doesn't. When Buffy returns to her date she finds him dancing with Cordelia, and leaves. Yet Owen still wants to date. And they try again the next night, only to be told that the prophecy may come true after all, and their date is cut short due to saving Giles from Vampire attack. Buffy then has to find and kill the annointed one, while keeping Owen out of trouble. She thinks she kills the Annointed, and unfortunaly has to stop dating Owen as it turns out he is a danger junkie.

Quotes

Giles-All right, I'll jump in my time machine, go back to the twelth century and ask the vampires to postpone their acient prophcey so you can take in dinner and a show.

Buffy- OK, at this point your abusing sarcasm

Cordelia- Oh Owen, look at you here, alone.

Owen- I'm here with Buffy.

Cordelia- Oh, you wanna dance.

Owen- No I'm still here with Buffy

Buffy- Cordelia, Owen and I would like to be alone right now, and for that to happen you would have to go someplace thats away.

Weapons!

Buffy only uses bog standard stakesin this episode. Giles uses a cross to scare the vampires.

Cast and Crew

Buffy- Sarah Michelle Gellar

Xander- Nicholas Brendon

Willow- Alyson Hannigan

Cordelia- Charisma Carpenter

Giles- Anthony Stewart Head

Angel- David Boreanaz

Master- Mark Metclef

Owen- Christopher Wiehl

Annointed one- Andrew J. Ferchland

Writer- Rob Des Hotel and Dean Batil

Directer- David Semel

The Big Picture

The Master raises the Annointed one, who Buffy beleives she has killed, he stays in the series until season two's school hard. Giles also says there is no instruction manual, which is a lie as we find out in 'Whats my line Part two' that there is a slayers handbook. 

Sunnydale High decide to take a feild trip to the Zoo, safe? Not on the Hellmouth. Xander, Willow and Buffy spot the local bullies taking Lance into the forbidden Hyena house. Xander quickly follows them, as do Willow and Buffy, they however are stopped by the Hyena keeper. By the time Xander and the others emege they are acting very differantly. Xander starts to hang round with them, bullying those less fortunate and sniffing Buffy. He then eats the school mascot, a pig.

Giles looks up referances to Primals and discovers that the teens have been infected by the spirits of the Hyenas. When they turn to the keeper of the Hyenas it becomes apparent that he is indeed one of these Primals. He tires to draw the spirit into himself, succeeding, until Buffy feeds him to the Hyenas.

Quotes

Giles- It's devestating, he's turned into a sixteen year old boy, of course you'll have to kill him.

Cast and Crew

Buffy- Sarah Michelle Gellar

Xander- Nicholas Brendon

Willow- Alyson Hannigan

Cordelia- Charisma Carpenter

Giles- Anthony Stewart Head

Principal Flutie- Ken Lerner

Kyle- Eion Baily

Rhonda- Michael McRaine

Tor- Brian Gross

Heidi- Jennifer Sky

Lance- Jeff Maynard

Zookeeper- James Stephens

Writer- Matt Kienne and Joe Reinkemeyer

Director- Bruce Seth Green

The Big Picture

Xander uses his experiences as a Hyena to help find a werewolf in 'Phases', season 2. Buffy is still wearing Angels jacket, given to her in 'Teachers pet'.