Giles reveals in The Dark Age that he’s a fan of The Bay City Rollers. They were a 1970s band, famous for wearing tartan. Their biggest hit was ‘Saturday Night’.

The comic Batman, by DC Comics, is mentioned several times in Buffy.

In Some Assembly Required, Buffy says to Willow, “Sorry to interrupt, Willow, but it’s the Bat-Signal.” She’s alluding to the ‘Bat-Signal’ in Gotham city which is used to alert Batman that he is needed.
In Halloween, Xander says to …

Andrew says “Think McFly” in Conversations with Dead People. He’s referring to the movie trilogy Back to the Future, made in the 1980s in which McFly is the last name of the main character, Marty (Michael J. Fox). More specifically, he’s using the phrase Biff (the thug/bully) used to use …

When Andrew is stealing himself to kill a piglet in Never Leave Me, he keeps thinking of Babe, the cute pig from the movie Babe and it’s sequel Pig in the City (”Babe 2: Pig in the City was really underrated”). He later says, “That’ll do, pig”, which the farmer …

Miss Kitty Fantastico was a black and white kitten belonging to Tara and Willow. The girls discussed getting a cat in New Moon Rising. She appeared in The Yoko Factor, Restless and Family then disappeared for three seasons. Her absence was finally explained in End of Days, when Dawn implied …

Marc Blucas mentioned in an interview about how he got the part of Riley:
“They had narrowed it down to five or six guys and we all went in to read with Sarah. The night before, I was playing basketball and I got undercut. I landed on my back, so I …

Meredith played doomed teacher Grace Newman in I Only Have Eyes For You. Meredith’a name was misspelled in the Buffy credits as “Meredith Salinger.” Meredith appeared as Amy Lloyd in Dawson’s Creek, as Michelle Goldstein in L.A. Firefighters and in an episode of Tales from the Crypt called ‘House of …

Christopher Gorham played 50s student James Stanley in I Only Have Eyes For You. He starred in Jake 2.0, a show ran by Buffy’s David Greenwalt. Christopher also played Harrison John in Popular, Trevor O’Donnell in Felicity, and appeared in the movie A Life Less Ordinary as Walt. In an …

Charles played the swim team coach in Go Fish. Charles has been in loads of cult movies and TV shows. He’s appeared in many John Carpenter films such as Escape from New York, Halloween, Assault on Precinct 13 and The Fog. On TV he’s been in shows including The Bionic …

Bianca Lawson played the vampire Slayer Kendra in season two. Bianca’s other TV credits include: Saved By the Bell: The New Class, Sister, Sister, Goode Behaviour, Dawson’s Creek, The Division and The Big House. Bianca starred in Fearless (as Harmony) alongside Eric Balfour, who played Jesse in season one. She …

Andrew played Ryan in Killed By Death. Andrew has had a fairly full career for someone so young (he was born in 1986). He played Willie Barry in Dave’s World (on which Nicholas Brendon worked briefly, behind the scenes). He’s also been in Early Edition, Charmed, Providence, Clueless, 3rd Rock …

Josephus du Lac was a theologian and mathematician. He belonged to a religious sect that was excommunicated by the Vatican at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He invented the du Lac cross, which was used to decipher hidden meanings and encrypted texts, and wrote the du Lac manuscripts which …

Before she moved to Sunnydale, Buffy attended Hemery High in L.A. The school was also the setting of the 1992 Buffy movie. Buffy was expelled from there as she burned down the gym (there was a bunch of vampires in there at the time). We see her in a flashback …

Jeff Pruitt, the show’s stunt coordinator until season five, said in Entertainment Weekly (issue October 1, 1999) that Lie to Me was his favourite episode.

Julia played the character Chantarelle in Lie to Me, who later appeared as Lily in Anne. Lily took Buffy’s middle name, Anne, and moved to L.A, where she appeared in the Angel episodes: Blood Money, The Thin Dead Line and Not Fade Away. Julia has also been in Charmed, Ophelia …