Buffy the Vampire Slayer ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' is an American supernatural fiction, supernatural drama television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon. It is based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film), 1992 film of the same name, also written by W ...

'' is an American television series created by

Joss Whedon Joseph Hill Whedon (; born June 23, 1964) is an American filmmaker, composer, and comic book writer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions, co-founder of Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of several television series: ...

, which premiered on March 10, 1997. It concluded on May 20, 2003, after seven seasons with 144 episodes in total, plus an unaired pilot episode. The first five seasons aired on

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, and in 2001, it transferred to

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for its final two seasons. In the United Kingdom, the entire series aired on

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and

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, and on TV3 in Ireland. The story line is continued in comic book form in

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Season 9 A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperate and po ...

, Season 10, Season 11, and concluded with Season 12. All seven seasons of the series are available on individual DVD box sets for Regions 1, 2 and 4. Two complete series collections (''The Chosen Collection'' and ''The Complete DVD Collection'') have been released separately for these regions.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (1997)

Season 2 (1997–1998)

Season 3 (1998–1999)

Season 4 (1999–2000)

Season 5 (2000–2001)

Season 6 (2001–2002)

Season 7 (2002–2003)

Ratings

References

External links

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