1st Season
1997
#1 Welcome to the Hellmouth
#2 The Harvest
#3 The Witch
#4 Teacher's Pet
 		#5 Never Kill a Boy on the First Date
#6 The Pack
#7 Angel
#8 I, Robot, You Jane
 		#9 The Puppet Show
#10 Nightmares
#11 Invisible Girl
#12 Prophecy Girl
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#1 Welcome to the Hellmouth: Aired Monday, March 10, 1997

Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale after getting kicked out of her high school in Los Angeles. Although she is the Slayer, she vows to stay out of trouble, which means leaving her slaying behind, however she finds that to be difficult now that she's living on a Hellmouth and the vampires in town are preparing for the Harvest to bring their Master to power. Buffy also meets her classmates, Willow, the nerd, Xander, the funny guy, and Cordelia, the popular rich-bitch. Buffy also meets the school librarian, who happens to be her Watcher, and a mysterious stranger who calls himself "a friend." Willow and Xander quickly learn Buffy's secret identity when she has to save Willow from a gang of vampires.

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#2 The Harvest: Aired Monday, March 10, 1997

Buffy, with the help of her Watcher and her new friends Willow and Xander, manages to prevent the Harvest and the rising of the Master by ambushing the gang of vampires that attacks the Bronze on a Friday night.

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#3 The Witch: Aired Monday, March 17, 1997

Buffy tries out for cheerleading and meets Amy Madison, an old friend of Willow's who is desperate to follow in her champion cheerleader mother's footsteps. First Amber, a star auditioner, spontaneously combusts during her audition, and then Cordelia, who has just made the team, goes mysteriously blind. After another cheerleader completely loses her mouth, Willow and Buffy think Amy is practicing witchcraft, but it soon becomes clear that it's actually Amy's mother, Catherine, who is doing these terrible things, and she has possessed Amy's body to relive her youth. Buffy, who is now on the team, becomes Catherine's next target, and suffers from drunk-like symptoms which leave her sick and ailing. With help from Amy in Catherine's body, Giles breaks the spells, and Buffy recovers from her ailment just in time to fight Catherine. With the help of a mirror, Buffy uses Catherine's own power against her, and Catherine becomes banished to inside her own cheerleading trophy.

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#4 Teacher's Pet: Aired Monday, March 25, 1997

Angel warns Buffy about a vampire with a metal claw hand and Xander is jealous of Buffy's mysterious "friend." The gang's biology teacher disappears and is replaced by a sexy female substitute. When Cordelia finds their biology teacher in the cafeteria refrigerator, Buffy tries to figure out what's going on. It turns out that the new teacher is actually an over-sized Preying Mantis and is seducing boys from the high school to fertilize her eggs only to dispose of her mates the way that only Preying Mantises can. Buffy, Willow and Giles save Xander from the sexy new teacher just in time.

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#5 Never Kill A Boy on the First Date: Aired Monday, March 31, 1997

Buffy tries to balance a social-life, namely dating a cute brooder named Owen, with her slaying duties. Giles reads up on a prophecy about the coming of the "anointed one" that seems to be coming true, and almost gets himself killed investigating it while Buffy is on a date. Buffy's date turns into a disaster when she has to rescue Giles and slay the anointed one. Buffy ends up dumping her cute boy when he gets excited about her life of danger. It turns out that Buffy missed the anointed one altogether, because he's actually a young boy, and The Master has him.

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#6 The Pack: Aired Monday, April 7, 1997

Willow and Buffy are confused when Xander starts hanging out with a bullying crowd and picking on the loser students. After the school mascot (a pig) and the school principal (yikes!) are found eaten, Willow, Buffy and Giles figure out that Xander and his new friends got possessed by hyenas during a school field trip to the zoo. They race to save their friend and the bullies before getting eaten themselves, and have to deal with the zookeeper who was trying to get the power of the hyenas for himself.

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#7 Angel: Aired Monday, April 14, 1997

Angel...the mysterious stranger.

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#8 I, Robot, You Jane: Aired Monday, April 28, 1997

A demon trapped in an ancient book is released into the internet during a library book-scanning project. Buffy is worried when Willow connects with a boy named Malcolm online, and of course Malcolm turns out to be the demon. Meanwhile, two other computer geeks in school start working on a secret project in an abandoned computer factory and one of them makes a botched attempt on Buffy's life. When a computer geek is found dead of a faked suicide and Willow has been kidnapped, Buffy and Xander go to the abandoned computer factory to confront the demon who has taken robotic form. Meanwhile, Giles turns to Jenny Calendar for help in ridding the internet of the demon presence. Jenny, who calls herself a Techno-Pagan, helps Giles recreate the binding ceremony online, and they get the demon out of the net and trapped in his robot body, which Buffy then destroys.

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#9 The Puppet Show: Aired Monday, May 5, 1997

Giles coordinating the school talent show (!) or a talking ventriloquist doll, sans ventriloquist. You decide.

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#10 Nightmares: Aired Monday, May 12, 1997

A traumatized boy in a coma reaches out from the world of nightmares and makes everyone in Sunnydale experience their worst fear. Buffy takes a history test that she isn't prepared for, finds out from her father that it was her fault her parents got a divorce, is buried alive by the Master, and then rises as a vampire. Xander shows up to class in his underwear, Giles gets lost in the stacks and forgets how to read, Willow is supposed to sing on stage, and Cordelia's hair gets frizzy and she finds herself in the chess club. Only by helping the comatose boy confront his fear can Buffy and her friends save the world from total disaster.

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#11 Invisible Girl: Aired Monday, May 19, 1997

An unpopular girl takes revenge on those who ignored her.

AKA: "Out of Mind, Out of Sight"

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#12 Prophecy Girl: Aired Monday, June 2, 1997

Xander asks Buffy to the spring dance, but she tells him she doesn't return his romantic feelings. Xander asks Willow as his backup date, but Willow doesn't want to be his consolation prize. With some help from Jenny Calendar, Giles realizes that a prophecy predicts that Buffy will die fighting The Master. When Buffy hears the prophecy, she wants to run away, but she realizes that she's the only one who can stop The Master from opening the Hell Mouth and unleashing hell on earth. Buffy faces The Master, and Xander convinces Angel to take him to The Master's cave to make sure Buffy doesn't die. Buffy drowns and The Master rises, but Xander revives Buffy with CPR and Buffy destroys The Master just as the Hell Mouth is opening. After restoring peace in Sunnydale, Buffy and her friends go to the spring dance.

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