Buffy the Vampire Slayer

1997 โ€ข UPN
4.8
1.15K reviews
TV-14
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Season 5 episodes (22)

1 Buffy vs. Dracula
9/26/00
An uneasy encounter with the legendary Count Dracula leaves Buffy desiring to learn more about herself and thus asking Giles to once again be her Watcher.
2 Real Me
10/3/00
As Dawn begins a journal recounting her life with the Slayer, she encounters a madman who tells her she "doesn't belong" and a group of vampires led by Harmony.
3 The Replacement
10/10/00
When Xander blocks a Toth demon's magical blast from hitting Buffy, he wakes up the next day to find a doppelganger has taken over his life.
4 Out of My Mind
10/17/00
As Riley's friends beg him to see a medical specialist at Sunnydale General hospital, Harmony and Spike kidnap the same specialist with hopes he can remove Spike's chip.
5 No Place Like Home
10/24/00
While on her nightly patrol, Buffy finds a glowing orb which leads her to suspect there's an unnatural force behind both her mother's growing illness and her sister Dawn.
6 Family
11/7/00
Tara inadvertently puts everyone in danger when she secretly casts a spell on her friends after her family arrives in Sunnydale to celebrate her birthday.
7 Fool for Love
11/14/00
After being impaled by a vampire, Buffy turns to Spike, who claims to have killed two Slayers, in an attempt to learn how other Slayers met their end.
8 Shadow
11/21/00
Buffy has to face both her mother's critical illness and the growing threat of Glory's continuing search for the Key.
9 Listening to Fear
11/28/00
A spider-like Queller demon arrives in Sunnydale and begins killing mental patients at the hospital just as Joyce is admitted for her surgery.
10 Into the Woods
12/19/00
Certain that Buffy doesn't love him the same way he loves her, Riley finally decides to confront her and offer her one last opportunity to give their relationship a chance.
11 Triangle
1/9/01
While Giles is in England trying to uncover information about Glory, Willow and Tara accidentally summon up an angry troll who used to go out with Anya.
12 Checkpoint
1/23/01
Buffy finds out that she has seriously underestimated Glory after Giles returns from England and then the Watcher's Council arrives to review her Slayer skills.
13 Blood Ties
2/6/01
After learning that she is the Key in human form, a distraught and disbelieving Dawn makes her way to the hospital's mental ward where she encounters Glory.
14 Crush
2/13/01
Buffy is shocked to discover Spike is in love with her, a situation made dangerously worse by Drusilla's unexpected arrival back in Sunnydale.
15 I Was Made to Love You
2/20/01
The gang encounters a powerful robot named April who is determined to find Warren, the man who built her to love only him.
16 The Body
2/27/01
Buffy, Dawn and their friends find themselves dealing with the painful events surrounding Joyce's sudden and unexpected death.
17 Forever
4/17/01
Unable to accept her mother's death Dawn enlists Spike's help in gathering the ingredients needed to cast a spell to bring her mother back from the dead.
18 Intervention
4/24/01
While Buffy travels to the desert on a quest to find the Primitive, the gang back home encounters a very realistic Buffybot who seems to be in love with Spike.
19 Tough Love
5/1/01
Glory angrily leaves Tara in a mindless state after realizing she is not the Key, an act which pits her against all the powerful and dark magic Willow can summon.
20 Spiral
5/8/01
Glory finally realizes Dawn is the Key, and Buffy surprises her friends by telling them their best option for staying alive is to leave Sunnydale.
21 The Weight of the World
5/15/01
Willow uses magic to try to rouse Buffy out of her catatonic state after Glory kidnaps, and then disappears with, Dawn.
22 The Gift
5/22/01
Refusing to believe that killing Dawn is the only way to save the universe, Buffy prepares to do battle against Glory -- and finally realizes the true meaning of "her gift."

About this show

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is a comedy-action series that chronicles the adventures of Buffy Summers, a teenage girl who is gifted with the strength and skill to hunt vampires.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
1.15K reviews
Lori W Bahadur
November 17, 2017
A very well-made program, loaded with talent and very few unwatchable episodes. My favorite will always be the musical and the end. That's not a bad thing. You could see where Josh Weedon wished he'd gotten to go with the movie...
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AJ H
July 27, 2014
There is an episode, a quote for every situation. I would have never survived having a chronic illness and constant hospitalizations. After a bad day, or before a rough one after a bad night, I just watch an episode (usually turns in to several episodes or seasons...); whether I have an episode in mind or just select randomly it always helps and gives me the strength and the change of point of view I need. Always remember: WWBD.
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Elli Meyer
May 19, 2016
Vampires, Werewolves, men made out of thousands of maggots...how much better can a show be? Forget Twilight - this was the original human high school girl falls for 200 yr old vamp...but one with a soul! The relationship between Giles, the "librarian"/Buffy's Watcher (the person assigned to train the slayer), and Buffy, Willow, and Xander, is tongue in cheek fun. I own the DVDs and have probably seen each episode 7 or 8 times. PLUS, whenever it is on cable, I have to stop and watch it. Another must watch!!
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