In Lies My Parents Told Me, Buffy says to Giles, “It was boring, old, and British… like you… le Brynner.” Yul Brynner (1915-1985) was a Russian/American actor, notable for his role as the King in the 1956 movie The King and I.

Dominic Keating played Blair in the episode Helpless. He later went on to star in Star Trek: Enterprise as Lt. Reed. British fans may also remember him from the comedy Desmonds.

David Fury’s original idea for the episode Helpless was to have Buffy made to hallucinate that her friends and family were vampires. It was felt though, that this would be too close to the events of The Wish.

There are a few alternative Chosen scripts on the internet with many differences, including: Xander dying to save Dawn; Anya living to see the end and Dawn being the third Slayer. In the alternatives, there are many extra guest stars including Kendra. Sarah Michelle Gellar told Entertainment Weekly in 2003 …

In the original script for Chosen, the conversation between Buffy and Angel was supposed to be longer, with Angel revealing to Buffy that he loved Cordelia and also that he had a son, Connor (which makes me wonder why Willow didn’t mention this to Buffy before). This was amended as …

Joss Whedon told Dreamwatch magazine about an edited scene in the episode Chosen:
“I definitely had to do some hack and slash. They were small edits. My favourite one would probably never have made it to air anyway. It was Principal Wood and Giles sharing a joint right before they …

Faith spends a lot of the episode End of Days off-screen in bed recuperating after being knocked unconscious by the bomb explosion. This is because Eliza Dushu was filming the pilot for her show Tru Calling during the shooting of the episode.

David Fury and D. B. Woodside note in the DVD commentary for Lies My Parents Told Me that they both wanted Robin Wood to wear his green vest in the scenes with Spike, but they had to put him in a harness for a stunt later in that scene, which …

When filming the scene in Lie My Parents Told Me, in which Giles and Buffy are in the graveyard, there was a huge party going on nearby so they could only shoot takes in between loud blasts of Mariachi music.

The Mutant Enemy monster says “We are Gods” at the end of the episode Storyteller.

David Solomon broke his finger whilst shooting the episode The Killer in Me (which he was directing) and had to be taken to hospital for the day.

The car scenes in Conversations with Dead People featuring Jonathan and Andrew were actually filmed in a studio, with crew members shaking the car to make it look as though it were moving.

Eric Balfour, who played Xander and Willow’s best friend Jesse in the first two episodes of Buffy, was rumoured to have been offered the chance to return as Jesse/the First in the episode Conversations with Dead People.

The network was unhappy with D’Hoffryn’s Abercrombie and Fitch line in Selfless (”It looks like someone slaughtered an Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue”), not because they may lose a sponsor, but because D’Hoffryn didn’t care about the deaths of the frat boys. Drew Goddard explained that D’Hoffryn is in fact evil …

Kali Rocha (Halfrek) was performing in the play ‘Noises Off’ when season seven was shooting. She was flown in for one day and filmed all her season seven scenes in that day, including those in Lessons and Selfless. Kali filmed her ‘death scene’ on green screen which was super-imposed onto …