In the opening sequence, Darla’s top button on her shirt is undone but when she vamps up, the shirt is closed.

In First Date, Xander says, “I’m mentally undressing Scott Bakula.” Scott Bakula played Dr. Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap, and Captain Archer in Enterprise.

Pete was a friend of Oz and boyfriend of Debbie. He used a concoction of drugs which changed his personality. He beat Debbie badly, as he was jealous of any contact she had with other men, but she stood by him. He eventually had a massive fight with werewolf Oz …

Anthony Stewart Head and Alexis Denisof both did guest appearances on the TV series Highlander, as well as appearing in a theatre production of Rope in Chichester together in 1993. It was Anthony who suggested Alexis for the part of Wesley.

Alexis Denisof lived in England for some time. When he returned to America, he couldn’t afford his own place and couldn’t find any work. Mary Steenburgen (Back to the Future III, Joan of Arcadia, Elf) was a friend of his from when they made Noah’s Ark together. She took Alexis …

Alexis Denisof played the Watcher Wesley Wyndham-Pryce. He later went on to play a much stubblier version of Wesley in the spin-off Angel. Alexis married Alyson Hannigan, who played Willow, in 2003. He was born in Maryland but lived in England for long time, where he acted with the Royal …

Seth contributed guitar tracks on Velvet Chain’s The Buffy E.P. for the song ‘Buffy’, and appears in the album credits. Seth Green has also performed with the band on stage.

Anyanka was the first vengeance demon we met (The Wish). She was the patron saint of scorned women, though we discovered in Older and Far Away that other vengeance demons specialise in different areas, such as mistreated children. A vengeance demon is either summoned or appears in human form. Each …

The band Velvet Chain appeared on stage in the Bronze in the episode Never Kill a Boy on the First Date, performing the tracks ‘Strong’ and ‘Treason’. The band’s singer, Erika Amato, became a huge fan of the show and used to write to fans on the official Buffy website’s …

According to Buffy, “Valentine’s Day is just a cheap gimmick to sell cards and chocolate”. Valentine was actually a priest in Rome, who was persecuted under Claudius II. When the prefect of Rome couldn’t make him renounce his faith, he sentenced him to be beheaded. That sentence was carried out …

J. Patrick Lawlor played Thomas the vampire in Welcome to the Hellmouth (the first vampire to be staked on the show). He has also been in Pleasantville, in which Marc Blucas (Riley) and Danny Strong (Jonathan) also appeared.

A black and white oval sticker with the letters “WP” can often be seen in Sunnydale. The sticker is for a band called Widespread Panic. Examples of episodes in which this is seen include:
Inca Mummy Girl: behind Xander when he says to Ampata, “Why’d you run away?”.
Halloween: next to Cordelia …

In Tough Love, Tara was attacked by Glory at the World Cultural Fair in Sunnydale.
There was previously a cultural exchange programme at Sunnydale High in Inca Mummy Girl, the highlight of which was a dance where students dressed in the costumes of different countries.

Three Vahrall demons attempted to open the Hellmouth in the episode Doomed using the blood of a man, the bones of a child and the Word of Valios. This was a fifteenth century talisman, which Giles just happened to have in his apartment. He says he brought it at a …

Spike said he was at the hippy festival Woodstock in School Hard. The festival was held in Bethel, New York in August, 1969. Musicians there included Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead and Neil Young.