The BBC and Sky One in the UK heavily cut the part of Same Time, Same Place where Gnarl peels and eats Willow’s skin.

Same Time, Same Place is the first episode of the series in which there are no guest stars credited at the start of the episode.

In the original promotion for the episode Same Time, Same Place, Spike was shown saying, “I mean, who doesn’t like skin?” but this line wasn’t aired in the episode.

In Two To Go, Willow says to Buffy, “I get it now. The Slayer thing really isn’t about the violence. It’s about the power.” The episode Lessons begins and ends with Buffy saying, “It’s all about the power”.

In Lessons, we see that the Scoobies have finally cottoned on to the fact that mobile phones are a good idea for people who are regularly in danger. Buffy and Dawn now have matching mobile phones. Xander also has a cell phone, and Buffy has his number on speed dial. …

There are loads of references to seasons one, two and three in Lessons, probably to make the idea hit home that Buffy was going “back to the beginning” (as Joss Whedon said it would before the season started). Xander says, “The last two Principals were eaten. Who’d even apply for …

The scenes of “Istanbul” in Lessons were actually filmed at Universal Studios, and the graveyard shown in the teaser was built indoors.

Michelle Trachtenberg (Dawn) was adamant that she wanted to wear the argyle sweater she wears in the episode Lessons, but when shooting her scenes the temperature was 110 degrees so she was too hot all the time.

Season seven’s opening credits is the first since the start of the show where there have been no changes to the regular cast. For each of the previous seasons there have been either cast members added or removed at the beginning.

When writing the episode Lessons, Joss Whedon deliberately kept the new Principal’s name unisex (Robin Wood) as he wasn’t sure in his script if Robin would be male or female, or good or evil.

At the end of Lessons, Spike is confronted by various manifestations in the form of previous big bads: The Master, Glory, Warren, Drusilla, Adam and the Mayor. The actors’ names were omitted from the guest stars list in the opening credits so as not to spoil the ending. Mark Metcalf …

In Restless, Giles said in Xander’s dream that, “A Watcher scoffs at gravity.” Willow defies gravity in Grave by pinning Giles to the ceiling.

In Grave, Willow mentions the argument in Flooded in which Giles called her a “rank, arrogant amateur”.

In Grave, Jonathan and Andrew go to Mexico, which Andrew first suggested in Two To Go. We see footage of them in Mexico in Storyteller.

In Grave, Buffy fills Giles in with the events of this season, “Xander left Anya at the altar” (Hell’s Bells), “Anya’s a vengeance demon again” (Entropy), “Dawn’s a total klepto” (Older and Far Away), “money’s been so tight that I’ve been slinging burgers at the Doublemeat Palace” (Doublemeat Palace), “And …