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INTO EACH GENERATION A SLAYER IS BORN. Now you can own the entire first season of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. All 12 classic episodes are available for the first time in this exclusive 3-disc collector’s edition. From "Welcome to the Hellmouth," "The Harvest" and "Angel" to "Nightmares," "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" and "Prophecy Girl," these Season One episodes are a must for every true Buffy fan.
Description of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete First Season:
Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) looks like your typical perky high-schooler, and like most, she has her secret fears and anxieties. However, while most teens are worrying about their next date, their next zit, or their next term paper, Buffy's angsting over the next vampire she has to slay. See, Buffy, a young woman with superhuman strength, is the "chosen one," and she must help rid the world of evil, namely by staking demons. The exceptional first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer introduces us to the treacherous world of Sunnydale High School (where Buffy moved after torching her previous high school's gym). The characters there include "watcher" Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) and the original "Scooby Gang" members--friendly geek Xander (Nicholas Brendon), computer whiz Willow (Alyson Hannigan), and snobbish popular girl Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter)--who aid Buffy in her quest. Those used to the darker tone that Buffy took in its later seasons will be surprised by the lighter feeling these first 12 episodes have--it's kind of like Buffy 90210 as the cast grapples with regular teen problems in addition to saving the world from demonic darkness. Fans of the show will enjoy the crisp writing, the phenomenal chemistry of the cast (already well-established within the first few episodes), and the introduction to characters that would stay for many seasons, including moody vampire Angel (David Boreanaz). Through it all, Gellar carries the series with amazing confidence, whether conveying the despair of high school or dispatching various demons--she's one of TV's most distinctive and strongest heroines. --Mark Englehart
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete First Season Reviews:
Where it all began... 
2009-12-03 - Many moons ago when I first came across Buffy in its first season, i watched a few episodes, laughed, but didn't totally get it--yet. By season 2, I was hooked. When I finally got a chance to really really watch season 1 on DVD again, wow, did i understand the magic that Joss Whedon had unleashed. You must watch this DVD if this is your first intro to Buffy. Will it look as clean, or be as pretty as everything following season 1, no--but who cares. You will fall in love with these characters and care about them right from the start. Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, Cordelia, and of course Angel. The story lines in season one are so much fun to go back to just to see if you can play connect the dots with seasons 2 through 7. Pay particular attention to the first episode Welcome to the Hellmouth, and the last one, Prophecy girl, a ton of juicy stuff in there that sets the precedent for the later seasons. Joss Whedon rules!!!!!!
Season 1, Episode 1: Welcome to the Hellmouth
Original Air Date--10 March 1997
Buffy Summers has just moved to Sunnydale with her mother. She wants nothing more than to make the right friends, and fit in with the right group. There is only one thing standing in her way. Her destiny.
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See all videos (8) » Season 1, Episode 2: The Harvest
Original Air Date--10 March 1997
In the second part of the two-part series premiere, Xander and Willow learn the truth about Sunnydale, and Buffy finds herself racing to rescue Jesse and stop a demonic ritual known as "The Harvest".
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See all videos (5) » Season 1, Episode 3: Witch
Original Air Date--17 March 1997
It's cheerleading tryouts, and Buffy can't resist. However, when the girls start getting knocked out of the competition, Buffy and the gang begin to suspect that someone may be behind these not so normal occurrences. Could someone be using dark magic in order to make the squad?
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See all videos (3) » Season 1, Episode 4: Teacher's Pet
Original Air Date--24 March 1997
Xander dreams of greatness- in biology class; the teacher, Dr. Gregory, is eaten afterward and declared missing. Angel gives Buffy another cryptic warning and his jacket but no personal info. Substitute Natalie French continues the lesson on insects, her good looks guarantee volunteers after class, Cordelia Chase finds Gregory decapitated. To Buffy's surprise vampires flee for miss French, who wants hormones-impressed Xander to see her after class, and Blayne didn't return from his previous appointment. Xander refuses to believe his 'hot date' is a shape-shifting bug but is drugged and locked up after she resumes her mantis-form and caged with Blayne. Giles finds out it's a virgin-killer, Buffy the real miss French's identity...
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See all videos (8) » Season 1, Episode 5: Never Kill a Boy on the First Date
Original Air Date--31 March 1997
Yearning for a normal life, Buffy agrees to a date with Owen. Giles discovers a prophecy of coming danger, but she chooses Owen over battling evil. When Giles goes out on his own and is trapped by a group of vampires, Buffy must figure out a way to balance dating and Slaying.
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See all videos (3) » Season 1, Episode 6: The Pack
Original Air Date--7 April 1997
After an altercation in the hyena enclosure of the local zoo, Buffy and Willow notice Xander start to hang with a new group of friends, and take on a slightly more primal attitude, including a liking for rare meat.
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See all videos (7) » Season 1, Episode 7: Angel
Original Air Date--14 April 1997
Angel and Buffy's relationship is threatened by a dark secret he has been hiding from her. And when that secret puts the life of someone close to Buffy in danger, she must make a choice.
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See all videos (4) » Season 1, Episode 8: I, Robot... You, Jane
Original Air Date--28 April 1997
Willow meets a new friend, Malcolm, over the Internet. Meanwhile, a demon named Moloch has escaped from the book in which he was bound.
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See all videos (6) » Season 1, Episode 9: The Puppet Show
Original Air Date--5 May 1997
Mr. Snyder, Sunnydale High's new principal after the devouring of fatherly Mr. Robert Flutie, believes in order and discipline to instill school spirit, so he orders Giles to produce a talent show and punishes the absentee trio by forcibly enrolling them as candidates. Then dancer Emily is found with her heart cut out, but demons don't usually use a knife, yet one was found next to her, so the human student contestants are screened. The weirdest suspect proves to be gifted ventriloquist Morgan Shay, who treats his inseparable wooden dummy Sid as real, in fact takes orders from it in private, and if it is as Giles suspects one of seven demon who take possession of human bodies, anybody may be turned bad by it...
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See all videos (5) » Season 1, Episode 10: Nightmares
Original Air Date--12 May 1997
At the hell-mouth, the Master of evil explains to his boy heir Collin that fear rules people better then love or hate. He manages to use the young schoolboy Billy Palmer to make every student of Sunnydale High's terrifying nightmares come true, ranging from Xander appearing in class wearing only boxer-shorts to being chased by murderers, losing one's favorite abilities or poisonous spiders coming out of one's schoolbooks...
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See all videos (11) » Season 1, Episode 11: Out of Mind, Out of Sight
Original Air Date--19 May 1997
An invisible force is attacking the students and teachers at Sunnydale High. Buffy and the gang must find a way to stop this invisible menace, and determine why it seems to be centering its attacks on Cordelia.
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See all videos (8) » Season 1, Episode 12: Prophecy Girl
Original Air Date--2 June 1997
In the first-season finale, Giles discovers an ancient prophecy which states that Buffy will face the Master and she will die. Upon hearing this, Buffy first denies her slayer roots, but when a small tragedy occurs at school, Buffy realizes she can't run from destiny, and decides to take on The Master.
BUFFY SEASON ONE 
2009-12-02 - I LOVE BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.....it's my guilty pleasure! however the disc quality, sound, picture are not that great they could be better...but for the inexpensive price it was worth it!
Terrible video quality. 
2009-10-26 - I love the show. The video quality of this DVD is terrible. One of the worst video transfers I've ever seen.
A mediocre start to a great series 
2009-10-10 - I'm going to start out by saying that I love this show. I have to be one of the only guys in the world who likes this show. Now this was not the best season by a long shot. I don't think too many people even acknowledge this season. What it does is set the groudwork for future seasons. The plot and all the main characters are introduced nicely. The key problem with this season: low budget.
Now as many of you know, the series is based off a 1992 movie of the same name, starring Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry, and Donald Sutherland. I haven't seen the movie, but I've heard it's horrible. Taking that into account, it is surprising that this show was ever concieved. Obviously, they didn't have a lot to work with. As a result, there are many problems with the first season. The costumes and makeup look kind of cheesy. The action scenes are not very well choreographed. I could be wrong, but I don't think many of the actors(with the exception of Anthony Stewart Head) had done much acting. I didn't think the acting was horrible, but it's not excellent either. The villian of this season, the master, is kind of lame. I got real tired of his quips and attempts at being scary. SPOILER ALERT. His fight with Buffy at the end of the season did not make any sense. How does Buffy easily kill the most powerful vampire on the planet when he easily killed her five minutes earlier?
Even with problems like these, the season is still okay. There were elements of this season that would get better with better writing and a bigger budget. For example, I saw right away that Xander is supposed to be the funny comic relief guy. Most of his little jokes weren't that funny in this season, but I could see that his delivery of those lines was excellent. And in later seasons, he does become a very funny character.
Overall, the season was okay. It interested me enough to get me to watch the second season. So if you want to get into a great television series, buy oor rent this DVD, suffer through it, and then you get to watch seasons two and three, some of the best television I've ever seen.
amazon.com an excellent choice
2009-08-25 - I purchased Buffy the Vampire Season 1, have to say the DVD's were in excellent condition and no scratches on them, received them in just a few days after purchase. Will recommend using amazon.com to my family and friends.
