All dates are the original airing dates.
Welcome To The Hellmouth:(3/10/97) An introduction to characters and their lives.
The Harvest:(3/10) Buffy gets a present of a silver cross from the mysterious man Angel. Angel tells Buffy the Harvest is near.
The Witch:(3/17) A
girl decides that she must make the cheerleading team, even if it means
using witchcraft. Until it's found out
that, she's not the one
trying to make the team.
Teacher's Pet:(3/25)
Xander and the rest of his class go ga-ga over the new substitute teacher,
they find out the hard way she's
not a regular teacher, or
person for that matter.
Never Kill A Boy On The
First Date:(3/31) Buffy faces her first dilemma- to go out with a poetry
loving classmate or save the
world from evil. Well, she
does both. When he finds out her dangerous life, she has to give him up.
The Pack:(4/7)While
on a trip to the zoo, a group of bullying kids takes an unwilling student
into the off limits hyena house.
Xander goes in and tries
to help the kid out. But when he walks into the hyena house, the hyenas
take over. Xander
(posessed) soon begins to
hang out with 'the pack', taunting kids including Willow and eating a live
pig.
Angel:(4/14) When
Angel is hurt, Bufy readily lets him stay at her house. After the first
night, Buffy learns that Angel is really a
vampire.
I, Robot, You, Jane:(4/28) Willow gets involved over the internet with a person, who trys to take over everyone.
The Puppet Show:(5/5)
Giles is the recluctant coordinator of a school production which contains
a dummy who seems to have
a mind of its own.
Nightmares:(5/12):
A young boy falls into a coma, when he had an "accident". But all of his
nightmares are becoming
Sunnydale's reality.
Invisible Girl:(5/19)
A tormented, unpopular unnoticed girl becomes invisible and takes revenge
on the classmates who did her
wrong.
Prophecy Girl:(5/26)
Giles consults his books and finds that Buffy will face the master and
die. Buffy goes to fight the Master.
The Master drinks some of
Buffy's blood, she faints, she drops in a pool of water. Unconscious, she
drowns for a brief
moment. Unable to save her,
he's breathless, Angel, calls to Xander for help.
All dates are the orginal airing dates.
When She Was Bad:(9/15/97)
Buffy is still haunted by the Master even though he is gone. Emotionally
distraught she acts like
a b*tch to everyone, including
Angel.
Some Assembly Required:(9/22)
Some boys think that they should make the perfect girl, and Buffy and Cordelia
would be
perfect.
School Hard:(9/29)
The introduction to Spike and Drucilla. During parent teacher conferences,
a gang of vampires, including
Spike, decide to have a
little fun in the school. The parents and teachers are taken hostage, and
at the end we find the principal
is involved.
Inca Mummy Girl:(10/6)
A foreign exchange student steals Xander's heart, but he learns that she
is really a hundred year old
mummy who must kill to survive.
Reptile Boy:(10/13)
Cordelia falls in love with the idea of being rich and powerful, so she
gets involved with a frathouse of rich
and powerful men. Buffy
is asked to go to a party with Cordelia and does, she has been brushed
aside by Angel and pushed
to hard by Giles. She goes
and finds they are the next to be sacrificed to a giant snake.
Halloween:(10/27)
The new Halloween store is up, and everyone goes there to get their costume.
But on Halloween night
everyone in Sunnydale is
transformed into as what they are dressed like. Unfortunate for Buffy,
she dresses like an 18th
century noblewoman, who
is terrified of everything.
Lie To Me:(11/3) An
old friend of Buffy's is back and town and wants to rekindle their friendship.
She finds out he wants to
become a vampire, and he
plans to trade her in to become immortal.
The Dark Age:(11/10)
A friend from Giles' past is back. His past resurfaces and so does tales
of magick and the mark of
Eygon.
What's My Line? Part One:(11/17)
Buffy and Angels' relationship grows closer. Spike and Drucilla find the
key to Dru's
illness-Angel. A new girl
is in town, she claims she is the vampire slayer. The order of Teraka is
sent after Buffy.
What's My Line? Part Two:(11/24)
The stranger, Kendra, really is a slayer. Angel is captured by Spike and
tortured by Dru.
Buffy rescues Angel just
in time, the building collapses on Spike and Dru. At the end, we see Dru
strong and carrying Spike
out of the rubble.
Ted:(12/8) Buffy's
mom has a new beau, and Angel tells there is something up with him. Buffy
finds Ted reading her diary, he
smacks her in the face,
and in a fit of rage Buffy beats the crud out of him, knocking him down
the stairs and killing him. With
some snooping done, they
find Ted is really a machine after Buffy and her mom. He comes back to
finally take care of them.
Bad Eggs:(1/12/98)Buffy's
new project is to take care of an egg like you would a baby. The eggs are
really aliens(?) and take
over the students and teachers
minds. Buffy is having troubles with her mom. Buffy and Angel's relationship
grows closer.
Surprise Part One:(1/19)
The Judge is in town and after the slayer. He destructs all who are kind
and helps all evil. Buffy and
Angel share a night of passion,
Angel wakes up in the night and runs into a dark alley and starts screaming
Buffy's name.
Innocence Part Two:(1/20)
Buffy's 17th birthday! Angel changes into Angelus. The night of love changed
him into his previous
evil self, he joins Spike's
Anti-Buffy campaign and comes after her. Buffy realizes that Ms. Calendar
knew it would happen but
didn't tell Buffy. Buffy
visits Angel, who is rude and obnoxious to Buffy she later finds out why.
At the end, Buffy is very
depressed and instead of
blowing out the little birthday cupcake her mom gives her, she just lets
it burn and stares off with
tears in her eyes.
Phases:(1/27) A werewolf
is in town and is thought to be responsible for a death. It's revealed
that it was Angelus. Willow is
shocked when she learns
who the werewolf really is.
Bewitched, Bothered and
Bewildered:(2/10) It's Valentines Day, and Buffy is still depressed
over the loss of Angel. A spell
makes all the girls in Sunnydale
crazy over Xander, including Buffy and Willow. Angelus is still torturing
Buffy. He comes to
her home and tells her mother
that he and Buffy made love.
Passion:(2/17) *a
personal fave* Narrated by Angelus, he draws threatning pictures of Buffy
and her mom. As revenge for
making him feel human, he
kills Ms. Calendar. Before her death, Ms. Calendar finds the spell to transform
Angelus back into
Angel, the disk it is saved
on falls between the crack in a desk and lands on the floor. Buffy realizes
that now she has the
courage to kill Angelus,
thinking he is gone forever.
Killed By Death:(3/3)
Buffy is hospitalized for a major fever. While there, and under the fever,
she sees a looming figure killing
children. Angelus walks
into the hospital to visit Buffy, but leaves after confronting Xander and
rubbing it in his face that he
made love to Buffy while
Xander can't even tell her his true feelings.
I Only Have Eyes For You:(4/28)Sunnydale
High is haunted by a young student who killed his teacher/lover. He posesses
students and faculity to
act out the murder, including Buffy and Angel. After acting passionately,
they were still possessed,
Angel realizes what is going
on and runs away. The spirit is lifted from the school. Giles still can't
let go of Jenny, just like Buffy
can't let go of Angel.
Go Fish:(5/5) Underwater
monsters attack the guys of Sunnydale High's swim team. The coach has a
surprising part in it.
Xander joins the team as
a undercover act. Cordy proves why she won the SunnyDale Award For The
Biggest Ditz.
Becoming Part One:(5/12)
Flashbacks of Angel's lifetime and his wrongdoings. Buffy and Willow find
the disk containing the
curse to restore Angel's
soul. Kendra returns, and is killed by Drucilla. While performing the curse,
vampires attack, Willow is
unconscious, Xander's arm
is grossly bent, Kendra dies, Giles is kidnapped, all during the time she
is fighting Angel. Narrated
by the Whistler, he is the
one who brought Angel to Buffy.
Becoming Part Two:(5/19)
*note this IS the season finale* After Buffy runs in the library, she is
arrested by police. She beats
one cop up and runs away.
Meanwhile, Angel is torturing Giles, trying to find the key to unlock Hell.
Willow is in a coma-like
state, while Xander is sitting
next to her, he says I love you just as Willow wakes up and Oz walks in.
Buffy gets a visit from
The Whistler. Spike makes
a deal with Buffy, he keeps Giles alive while he takes Dru and runs and
Buffy goes and kills
Angelus. Willow decides
to try the curse again, and tells Xander to relay the message to Buffy,
he does, but not the right
message. After torturing
Giles, Angelus gets the key, it's his blood that needs to be on his hands.
Buffy tells her mom she is the
slayer, her mom disbelieves
her and refuses to let her leave, but Buffy pushes her away and leaves.
Buffy goes to the
warehouse where Angelus
and the gang are, after a big complicated fight, Buffy and Angel are left
to battle it out with swords.
A few seconds before Buffy
slices off Angelus' head, the ritual works and Angelus is Angel. Buffy
and Angel kiss and hug and
exchange I love you's and
tears. She knows what she has to do and thrusts the sword into his stomach
pushing him into Hell
and sealing the portal.
Buffy doesn't know where to go, so she leaves town without telling anyone.