The following is a list of episodes of the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which premiered March 10, 1997, with its series finale airing May 20, 2003. The series consists of seven seasons with 144 episodes in total, plus an unaired pilot episode.

The first five seasons aired on The WB

The WB Television Network

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, and in 2001, it transferred to the UPN

UPN

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 for its final two seasons. In the United Kingdom, the entire series aired on Sky1 and BBC Two

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, and on TV3 in Ireland. The story line is continued in comic book form in Season 8

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight is a comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics. The series serves as a canonical continuation of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and follows the events of that show's final televised season. It is produced by Joss Whedon, who wrote the...

.

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

Season			Episodes		Season premiere Season premiere In North America, a season premiere is the first episode of a new season of a given television show. It often airs in September or October, after several months of reruns.-Evaluating the changes:...		Season finale Season finale A season finale is the final episode of a season of a television program...		DVD release date
		Region 1 DVD region code DVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...		Region 2 DVD region code DVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...		Region 4 DVD region code DVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...
	1	12
	2	22
	3	22
	4	22
	5	22
	6	22
	7	22

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

See also

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American action/comedy/horror film about a Valley girl cheerleader named Buffy who learns that it is her fate to hunt vampires. The original script for the film was written by Joss Whedon, who later created the darker and more acclaimed TV series of the same name...
  
  
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs
  DVDs of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer were produced by 20th Century Fox and released beginning in 2000. As well as containing the episodes, the DVD sets have extra features such as: audio commentaries by the show's producers, documentary features, blooper reels, and shooting...
  
  
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight is a comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics. The series serves as a canonical continuation of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and follows the events of that show's final televised season. It is produced by Joss Whedon, who wrote the...
  
  
• List of Angel episodes
• List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel episodes

External links

• List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes at BuffyGuide.com