Buffy the Vampire Slayer is/was a hugely successful American television series which ran for seven seasons and is now sorely missed by many (including myself). All seven seasons have been released on DVD not once, but twice. The first release was in fancy collectors editions, which is what ... Read review
Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) looks like your typical perky high-schooler, and ... more
like most, she has her secret fears and anxieties. However, while most teens are worrying about their next date, their next zit, or their next term paper, Buffy's an...
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The Harvest: Buffy swings into action in a fight to the death with the Master a powerful ... more
vampire intent on making a meal of her newfound friends and re-opening the mouth of Hell. Witch: School spirit gets ugly when cheerleader tryouts take a supernat...
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Buffy Summers just wants to be a normal teenager. After the death of her first Watcher ... more
back in Los Angeles, she is hoping the move to Sunnydale will give her and her mother a new start. But once she meets school librarian Rupert Giles, she realises the...
Welcome to the Hellmouth... Girl Power stalks the streets and graveyards of Sunnydale ... more
kicking out and laying waste to the vast pools of vampire scum that threatens to overrun not only the unassuming little town but the entire known world. Season One...
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Vampire-slayer Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, a Californian community located above the ... more
"Hellmouth", a phenomenon which explains the local graveyard's overpopulation of vampires and other supernatural beings. Angel, a mysterious loiterer, starts flirting with Buffy and gives her helpful tips on how to cope with the local nasties. However, he turns out to be a vampire, which complicates the future of their relationship. Buffy makes friends with school outcasts Willow, a computer nerd, and geeky Xander. But she excites the enmity of high-school princess Cordelia. The season's prime villain is the Master, a Nosferatu-looking vampire lurking under the town. Giles, Buffy's mentor, looks things up in books and demonstrates the exact same look of puzzlement actor Anthony Head used to demonstrate in those horrifying instant coffee ads. --Kim Newman
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Vampire-slayer Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, a Californian community located above the ... more
"Hellmouth", a phenomenon which explains the local graveyard's overpopulation of vampires and other supernatural beings. Angel, a mysterious loiterer, starts flirting with Buffy and gives her helpful tips on how to cope with the local nasties. However, he turns out to be a vampire, which complicates the future of their relationship. Buffy makes friends with school outcasts Willow, a computer nerd, and geeky Xander. But she excites the enmity of high-school princess Cordelia. The season's prime villain is the Master, a Nosferatu-looking vampire lurking under the town. Giles, Buffy's mentor, looks things up in books and demonstrates the exact same look of puzzlement actor Anthony Head used to demonstrate in those horrifying instant coffee ads. --Kim Newman
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Production Year: 2002 - Horror - Director: Danny Boyle - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Cillian Murphy, Megan Burns, Noah Huntley, Christopher Eccleston, Marvin Campbell, Brendan Gleeson
Production Year: 1984 - Horror - Director: Joe Dante - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, Frances Lee McCain, Judge Reinhold, Corey Feldman
Advantages: New packaging is sturdier than the original, first season of an excellent series Disadvantages: Picture quality not quite as good as it could have been.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is/was a hugely successful American television series which ran for seven seasons and is now sorely missed by many (including myself). All seven seasons have been released on DVD not once, but twice. The first release was in fancy collectors editions, which is what I personally own, but the more recent releases are in a amray style case (normal style), which looks far plainer but is much cheaper. While I personally own the ... ...---The Season---
Buffy Summers would give anything to be a normal high school student, unfortunately that's something that's just not meant to be. For Buffy is the one girl in all the world, imbued with superhuman strength to aid her in her battles with vampires, demons and other supernatural nasties. She is the Slayer, scourge of the demon underworld, and she's moved to Sunnydale, which just happens to be sited slap, bang on the Hellmouth.....let ... more
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is/was a hugely successful American television series which ran for seven seasons and is now sorely missed by many (including myself). All seven seasons have been released on DVD not once, but twice. The first release was in fancy collectors editions, which is what I personally own, but the more recent releases are in a amray style case (normal style), which looks far plainer but is much cheaper. While I personally own the original version, my son owns this one.
---The Season---
Buffy Summers would give anything to be a normal high school student, unfortunately that's something that's just not meant to be. For Buffy is the one girl in all the world, imbued with superhuman strength to aid her in her battles with vampires, demons and other supernatural nasties. She is the Slayer, scourge of the demon underworld, and she's moved to Sunnydale, which just happens to be sited slap, bang on the Hellmouth.....let the battles ensue....
Although the programme was still in it's infancy, the first season still has all the elements that made the series a must-watch. The mix of drama, comedy, action and teenage angst is there from the very first episode, and although I've watched the season many, many times I still find myself laughing at some of the quirky one-liners. If anything I find myself laughing more as I know what is coming, and this makes some of the comments even more ironic.
One big difference between this season and those that follow is the fact that almost every episode is standalone, although there is a theme running through the twelve episodes, it is not as involved as those that follow. This makes the entire season more accessible for the casual viewer, especially as the characters are only just evolving. Another difference is the production values, the special effects aren't quite up to the same standard as say season seven. For all these minor faults, this is a great introduction to the Buffyverse, and I do enjoy watching it time and time again.
---The Presentation---
This is the new presentation, all the contents are exactly the same as the older version it's just the packaging that has changed. Instead of the fold-out as a cross case, the three discs are housed in a standard case, which then fits into a cardboard slipcase. Now, considering how much I love the "book" format that seasons 2-7 came in, it's going to sound strange to say that I prefer this newer presentation of season one. My reason for this, is that my own copy of the season is starting to look very battered, my son's newer version looks so much better, and it's easier to get the discs out. As with the original version, the discs are nicely printed, everything follows a blue theme and the physical presentation is far better than I could manage.
The picture quality is reasonable but not the best it could be, there is noticeable graininess during dark scenes, which is occasionally off-putting. Audio quality fairs better, the volume level is loud enough and the 2.0 surround sound adequate, as always there are scenes that would benefit from the upgraded 5.1 sound, but that would be too much to ask. The menu system is easy to navigate, and there are no motion menus (thank goodness), the only problem here is the lack of a "play all" function.
Being a fan of the programme, I like my special features, and while there are nowhere nearly enough, there are a few in this set. Just so you know there are far fewer than on the later seasons, and they are not as in-depth or interesting. There are a couple of commentaries (for the first two episodes) which were, I suppose, ok to listen to, with a few snippets of background information. The trouble is they were by Joss Whedon, who creates great shows, but is not the most fluent orator. Other "special" features on the first disc include a very short interview with Joss Whedon and David Boreanaz, which was mildly interesting, the original scrïpt of the pilot, which gives about five minutes of fun pretending to be the characters and some DVD ROM features that insist you install a software DVD player. The features on the other two discs are even sparser, with there being a music video, "I Quit" by Hepburn, which is actually quite good, a rather pointless photo gallery and trailer and even more pointless written biographies. All in all the special features are ok but not really special, and don't add an awful lot to the overall package.
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Rating : 15 (I'm not too sure as to why this is rated 15, there's nothing there that has disturbed my younger children, they all know it's not real. But if you (or your child) tend to scare easily then you may want to exercise discretion.)
Running Time : 8 hrs 42 mins Region : 2 (PAL) Video : 4:3 Audio : English/French Subtitles : English/French/Dutch/English for the hearing impaired
Price : £11.99 Delivered (Play.com)
---Final Words---
As a huge fan of Buffy it's a given that I enjoyed this season, and would therefore recommend it to anybody that's ever caught one of the later episodes and enjoyed it. However, I am recommending this new packaging, above the older fancier version, at it is far more robust, and even if you do own the later seasons in the book format, the first season doesn't actually match those anyway. The special features may be on the sparse side, but as the price is so low this boxset represents tremendous value for money.
sandemp 03.03.2006 (04.03.2006)
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Review of Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Series 1 - Complete (DVD)
Advantages: Great characters, witty dialogue. Only 12 episodes Disadvantages: Cheesy, predictable, might put people off Buffy completely.
When Buffy was on TV, I used to be a pretty big fan. However, recently I realised that I only started watching Buffy about half way through, and I've never seen anything from the first season. In all honesty, I probably would have been a lot happier if I would have stayed this way. The basic plot is pretty simple: Buffy is a 16 year old girl who moves to Sunnydale. She is the Chosen One, chosen to fight vampires and save the world, because it just ... ...surprised to know that actually, Buffy has to fight all kinds of evil, including witches and a giant praying mantis. Yes, a giant praying mantis. There are a lot of episodes in the season that introduce enemies that were just too ridiculous for my liking, ranging from robot demons to hyena-possessed children. These enemies were so ridiculous to me that it was hard for me to even conceive that they could be a threat to anyone at all. I think that ...
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Advantages: You can relive the Buffy experience over and over Disadvantages: none at all
...amazing 7 year run of Buffy the Vampire slayer. For those of you who watched the Buffy Movie with Kirsty Swanson and think god not a series of it. The movie doesn't even touch the series.
From the creator Joss Whedon comes an amazing Series with a cast including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, David Boreanaz, Anthony Stewart Head and many more.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer is based around the story of Buffy Summers, an until ... ...forces of darkness. Buffy and her mom move to Sunnydale because her Mom got a new job.
Of course been in a new town means new school. Sunnydale high in fact. She enrols only to find out that her slaying days that she thought were over actually are not as the new Librarian Mr Giles is actualy her new watcher ... so much for the new start, but i guess thats what happens when you go to a school on the hellmouth. Due to Buffys strange behaviour and ...
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Advantages: The scoobies friendship os a highlight. The 90's charm Disadvantages: Looks a bit cheap, has some awful episodes...
Originally I owned Buffy seasons 2-7 in the bible packaging that they used before this cheaper one, however, since the Season one DVD in the older packaging was made quite some time ago, it was hard to find one in good condition (being a product perfectionist) so I decided to buy this packaging instead, they've done quite a good job with it too, it could have been horrendous, but it all blends well due to great colours. I suppose the plastic flippy ... ...all a bit insane. But Buffy dragging a metal clawed vampire out of the sewers so he can give directions to the mantis' house is quite amusing....
The Puppet Show: Yes, another insane on in which a human is resurrected as a carnival puppet in order to get revenge on the 9 demons who killed him......Cough, cough. Its not all bad though, the scene with the demon locking Giles in on of those head chopper offers is actually quite tense.
Nightmares: ...
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Advantages: beginning of a legendry series Disadvantages: kinda dated
...is a must have for buffy fans, it is the introductory piece to all things buffy. The first season tells the story of Buffy's arrival to the hellmouth, more commonly know as Sunnydale Calafornia. The first two episodes Welcome to the Hell mouth and The Harvest introduce the viewer to the slayer. Buffy becomes friends with Willow and Xander in these first episodes, and also to another student named Jesse, who ends up being turned into a vampire, i ... ...with the dramatic finale where Buffy slays the master, not before dying herself of course. I have to say Sarah Michelle Geller displays some excellent acting in this first season, although she was obviously quite young when it was filmed. I especially love her performance int he final episode of the series when she discovers her iminate prophesised death.
This season does look kinda dated now, especially costume wise, however I found i can overlook ...
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Advantages: Brilliant Show Disadvantages: Only 12 episodes in this season
Season one of Buffy The Vampire Slayer was just the beginning (well after the film anyway), the season that we meet all the characters:
Buffy Anne Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar): The Slayer
The one girl in all the world chosen to fight the vampires and demons, to rid the world of its evil.
Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head): The Watcher
Member of the Watcher's Council, the watchers are the people who guide and train the slayers, tell them everything ... ...best friend; he also helps Buffy in her fight against evil and brings some comedy to the group.
Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter): The Cheerleader
Cordelia was the first to make friends with Buffy when she started at her new high school, although she doesn't hang around with Buffy she does help out on the odd occasion.
Angel (David Boreanaz): The Vampire With a Soul
Angel is a 200+ year old vampire who was cursed with a soul, now he helps Buffy ...
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~ Get Home Before Dark ~ BUFFY- Season 1
~ BUFFY? ~
Buffy the vampireSlayer is an American T.V series following the life of Buffy Summers, a 16 year old girl who not only has a new town and school to deal with but has the occupation of being a vampireslayer. The first series introduces all of the characters and how Buffy is very special person. The town of Sunnydale is haunted by the Hellmouth which is a evil door to hell. There are many demons and vampires who live around this Hellmouth which means Sunnydale is ridiculed by them. Being a teenage girl and a slayer is proven difficult as keeping this a secret is hard and her mother thinks she is a trouble maker.
Buffy the VampireSlayer became one of my favourite television shows and when the first season was released in 1997. I think I was 11 when I first saw the series on t ...
Advantages: Great characters, great show Disadvantages: Very few special features
I'm a very recent convert to the world of Buffy the VampireSlayer. I never watched it when it originally aired, and despite much insistence from two friends in the past year, I always refused on the grounds that I thought it wouldn't appeal. However, I recently found myself with a £12 voucher for an online store, and so decided to give this TV show a chance.
I bought season one, not expecting to like it. Fast forward two months, and I'm now the proud owner of all seven seasons of Buffy and the five seasons of the spin-off Angel. My bank account took a dent, let me tell you!
This review is about the season that started it all, though I'm pretty sure I'll write six more in time!
--Buffy? What's That?--
(Note: I'm using the American term "season" to describe each individual run, and "series" to describe the entire run ...
Advantages: Buffy Trailer, Music video: Hepburn "I Quit", Photo gallery, Interviews with David Boreanaz and Joss Whendon Disadvantages: the price!
Hi there,
I bought Buffy Season 1 on DVD when it first came out, and I haven’t stopped watching it since!
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This is a great collection to own on DVD. I am certainly going to buy the second season!
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The presentation of the DVD box set is really kool. The three discs are enclosed in a sleeve that opens up in a crucifix shape. It contains all the chapter selection for each episode and a season one booklet.
###~~Extra/added feaures~~###
Disc 1 - Joss Whendon/David Boreanaz
- Buffy Trailer
- Pilot Script
- Commentary
Disc 2 - Music video: Hepburn "I Quit"
- Photo gallery (10 pages)
Disc 3 - Cast biographies
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Buffy is a vampireslayer who ...
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Deluxe Video Service - Fox
Release date
03/10/2005
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
1528801012
Barcode
5039036018579
Languages
Main Language
English
DVD Description
The entire first series of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Buffy is an ordinary 16-year-old girl who learns she's not so ordinary; she is the Slayer, a single exceptional girl who must do battle with vampires, demons, and other supernatural bad guys while struggling with school and dating at the same time. Enjoy one of the 1990s' most popular and highly acclaimed television series in this special DVD collection, featuring audio commentary by creator Joss Whedon on the two-part pilot episode and an interview with Whedon and star David Boreanaz (ANGEL).
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