Alyson Hannigan found it extremely difficult to film the scene in Bargaining (Part 1), where she stabs the deer. She was very upset at the thought of Willow doing this and had a model of a deer which she had to “kill”. Marti Noxon says that Alyson cried the whole …

Gareth Davies, a Buffy producer, revealed to the BBC that Glory’s tower at the end of season five (seen in The Gift) nearly became a hazard. He said:
“We found a company which had what looked like a huge oil derrick in its front yard… The Art Department went down and …

When Buffy’s 100th episode approached, fans knew something big was going to happen as it coincided with the final episode of season five. Rumours abounded on the internet, including: Xander being Glory’s other half instead of Ben; the entire cast of Angel to be in the episode; and Willow becoming …

It was rumoured that the entire town of Sunnydale would be sucked into the Hellmouth in the episode The Gift. This actually occurred in the show’s final episode, Chosen. Marti Noxon revealed in an interview with the BBC that:
“Originally Joss’s plan was that at the end of season five, Sunnydale …

Sarah Michelle Gellar was away for a great deal of time when the end of season five was shot. She was filming Scooby Doo in Australia, which is why the episode The Weight of the World features very little of her. Doug Petrie told the BBC Buffy website about how …

Jane Espenson, the writer of the episode The Replacement, discussed the episode in an interview with the BBC. She said:
“I had actually pitched a double Xander episode in one of my first seasons because I thought, “We’ve got an actor with an identical twin, how can we not use this, …

Lindsay Crouse (Professor Maggie Walsh) had a lot of difficulty with seeing thought the clouded contact lenses she had to wear when her character was a zombie in Primeval. She was essentially blind and had to be guided by crew shouting directions to her. The reason her bottom is so …

Faith was supposed to tell Riley about the whole Buffy/Angel relationship in Who Are You? but it was edited out of the final script because rumours of this got out to fans before the episode aired.

Writer Doug Petrie made a sketch of what the body-switching contraption in This Year’s Girl should look like and Buffy designers made an exact copy. Doug keeps the sketch on his wall at home.

Writer Doug Petrie wanted a real fire in the scene in This Year’s Girl in which Faith spies on the Scoobies in Giles’s home. He wanted to create a comfortable family atmosphere to make Faith feel even more excluded from the group. He also adds what a “pain in the …

Here is a stage direction for Faith’s dream in This Year’s Girl: “We cut back to the Mayor. He’s being horribly, brutally HACKED APART by Buffy with her knife. He’s real dead, real fast. Finished with this prey, Buffy whips her gaze to Faith, impatient and peeved.”

When Faith looks through a shop window in This Year’s Girl, she sees an ad for ‘Gustafson Blades’. D. C. Gustafson was a Leadman who worked on Buffy during the first two seasons. He sadly died in November 2000 at age 41 after fighting cancer and AIDS. The episode Into …

The episode This Year’s Girl (in which Faith awakens from her coma) was almost called ‘Rise and Shine’ - something the Mayor would surely have said to Faith.

A short clip was cut from A New Man due to time purposes. According to Jane Espenson (who wrote the episode), after Spike crashed the car he got out and said, “I can kill demons. I can crash cars. Things are looking up!”

When shown on the BBC, Hush was edited in many places. Anya’s gesture to Xander for them to go and have sex was cut, as was Buffy’s rapid “staking” movement in the lecture hall scene. Another scene cut was where Tara opens a door in the college to see a …