Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Seasons

Season 1

The WB , 1997

Buffy Summers has just moved to Sunnydale after burning down her old school's gym and hopes to escape her Slayer duties. Her plans are complicated by Rupert Giles, her new Watcher, who reminds her of the inescapable presence of evil. Sunnydale High i…

Season 2

The WB , 1997 - 1998

Buffy Summers returns from a summer in Los Angeles after her death at the end of the first season. After distancing herself from her friends and loved ones with her new, self-centered attitude that almost gets them killed, Buffy comes to terms with t…

Season 3

The WB , 1998 - 1999

After attempting to start a new life in Los Angeles, Buffy Summers returns to Sunnydale, and is reunited with her friends and her mother. She is no longer a criminal suspect; but Principal Snyder, who took a vindictive pleasure in expelling Buffy, re…

Season 4

The WB , 1999 - 2000

Buffy and Willow enroll at UC Sunnydale while Xander joins the workforce. The vampire Spike, having left Drusilla, returns to Sunnydale and is abducted by The Initiative, a top-secret military installation based beneath the UC Sunnydale campus, led b…

Season 5

The WB , 2000 - 2001

Dawn appears in Sunnydale as a younger sister of Buffy. No one finds this strange, but it is soon revealed that the teenager is a mystical energy called The Key that was transformed by a group of monks, using Buffy's essence, into human form. False m…

Season 6

UPN , 2001 - 2002

Willow resurrects Buffy with a powerful spell. Although her friends believe that they have taken her out of Hell, Buffy had actually been in Heaven since her death (a fact that is later revealed to her friends). She is therefore traumatized by her re…

Season 7

UPN , 2002 - 2003

Buffy's resurrection caused an instability which allows The First Evil, a spiritual entity that Buffy encountered before, to begin tipping the balance between good and evil. It has inactive Potential Slayers hunted and killed by Caleb, a sinister and…