Stephen Cragg directed the episode The Witch. He has also directed episodes of Doogie Howser, M.D, Northern Exposure, The Wonder Years, Party of Five, JAG, Early Edition, Cracker and Bull (which starred Elizabeth Anne Allen, who played Amy Madison and Christopher Wiehl, who played Owen in Never Kill a Boy …

Jennifer Badger was the stunt double of both Cordelia and Drusilla. She was in the stunt team of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, which starred Seth Green (Oz). She also did stunts on Scream 2 (starring Sarah Michelle Gellar) and played the blind Vanessa Weeks in the Angel …

John T. Kretchmer directed the episodes The Harvest and School Hard. He was Assistant Director of Jurassic Park. He has also directed episodes of Birds of Prey (which featured Brian Thompson, who played Luke in The Harvest), Charmed, Dark Angel, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: …

Charles Martin Smith was the director of the first episode of the show - Welcome to the Hellmouth (the only episode he directed). He is also an actor. He has been in American Graffiti (as Toad), Herbie Goes Bananas, The Untouchables, Roswell (as Sheriff Wilcox), Deep Impact and Dead Heat.

Bianca Lawson (Kendra) was originally cast in the role of Cordelia but turned it down. She said:
“Well, there’s a period in a season where you audition for all the pilots, and you never know…so you kind of audition for everything. At the time I had done a lot for Sister, …

The actress cast to originally play Willow was Riff Regan, though she only played the part in the original pilot episode. She didn’t work out and Joss started looking for a new actress. He says the network wanted a “supermodel in horn rims” to play Willow.
Marcia Schulman (the casting …

Joss Whedon has the following to say about the original concept of the show:
“The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy: The Movie was the little…blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to …

Joss Whedon has described the process by which Buffy developed from movie into the TV show:
“It wasn’t really my idea. After the premiere of the movie, my wife said, “You know, honey, maybe a few years from now, you’ll get to make it again, the way you want to …

In its portrayal of zombies Buffy the Vampire Slayer draws on a wealth of (predominantly) cinematic material. Essentially, the cinematic zombie falls into three categories:

1) The Haitian Zombie: The classic depiction. The Haitian Zombie is an individual who has either been brought back from the dead or revived from a …

In a scene scripted for Prophecy Girl but never filmed, it rains stones on Sunnydale High School after Buffy rejects Xander when he first asks her out:
Xander bails, wandering off under the archway.
Buffy sits by herself on the bench, bummed. Which is when the hail of pebbles starts.
The first few …

Seth Green (Oz) appeared in the original Buffy movie, but his scene was cut out. He can still be seen in a small picture on the back of the video box.

Donald Sutherland played Buffy’s Watcher in the Buffy movie, and was a point of contention for Joss. He said in an interview with The Onion AV Club:
“He was just a prick. The thing is, people always make fun of Rutger Hauer [for his Buffy role]. Even though he was big …

The pilot episode of Buffy did not include the characters Angel or the Master. Characters in the pilot who later went on to appear in the show include Buffy, Giles, Xander, Willow (played by Riff Regan), Cordelia, Harmony, Jonathan (then an unnamed character), Principal Flutie (played by Stephen Tobolowsky) and …

As with most TV shows, a pilot episode was made for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which was never aired on TV. There are apparantly grainy copies of it floating around on the internet somewhere, if you want to download a copy, but I’ve never watched it.
One notable absence from the …

Joss Whedon attended high school at (the ultra-posh) Winchester College in Hampshire, England where he took his A levels. An internet rumour states that the character of Giles was based on one of the college’s history teachers, Dr. Peter Cramer. This has never been confirmed.
The school is as far removed …