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The following is a '''list of episodes''' for the [[United States|American]] [[television series]], ''[[The Rifleman|The Rifleman]]''. The series began its first season in [[1958]] and continued to air for five seasons. In that time, '''168''' episodes of the series were aired.

==Summary==
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! colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Season !! rowspan="2"|Episodes !! rowspan="2"|Originally aired !! colspan="3"|DVD release date
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! width="25%"|Region 1 !! width="25%"|Region 2
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|align="center"| [[#Season 1 (1958)|1]]
|align="center"| 12
|align="center"| [[1997 in television|1997]]
|align="center"| [[January 15]], [[2002]]
|align="center"| [[November 27]], [[2000]]
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|colspan="7" bgcolor="#ffffff"|
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|bgcolor="#FF0000" height="10px"|
|align="center"| [[#Season 2 (1997 – 1998)|2]]
|align="center"| 22
|align="center"| [[1997 in television|1997]] – [[1998 in television|1998]]
|align="center"| [[June 11]], [[2002]]
|align="center"| [[May 21]], [[2001]]
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|colspan="7" bgcolor="#ffffff"|
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|bgcolor="#44944A" height="10px"|
|align="center"| [[#Season 3 (1998 – 1999)|3]]
|align="center"| 22
|align="center"| [[1998 in television|1998]] – [[1999 in television|1999]]
|align="center"| [[January 7]], [[2003]]
|align="center"| [[October 29]], [[2001]]
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|bgcolor="#A9A9A9" height="10px"|
|align="center"| [[#Season 4 (1999 – 2000)|4]]
|align="center"| 22
|align="center"| [[1999 in television|1999]] – [[2000 in television|2000]]
|align="center"| [[June 10]], [[2003]]
|align="center"| [[May 13]], [[2002]]
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|colspan="7" bgcolor="#ffffff"|
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|bgcolor="#CC0000" height="10px"|
|align="center"| [[#Season 5 (2000 – 2001)|5]]
|align="center"| 22
|align="center"| [[2000 in television|2000]] – [[2001 in television|2001]]
|align="center"| [[December 9]], [[2003]]
|align="center"| [[October 28]], [[2002]]
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|bgcolor="#FFBF00" height="10px"|
|align="center"| [[#Season 6 (2001 – 2002)|6]]
|align="center"| 22
|align="center"| [[2001 in television|2001]] – [[2002 in television|2002]]
|align="center"| [[May 25]], [[2004]]
|align="center"| [[May 12]], [[2003]]
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|bgcolor="#007BA7" height="10px"|
|align="center"| [[#Season 7 (2002 – 2003)|7]]
|align="center"| 22
|align="center"| [[2002 in television|2002]] – [[2003 in television|2003]]
|align="center"| [[November 16]], [[2004]]
|align="center"| [[April 5]], [[2004]]
|}

==Season 1 (1997)==
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|| "[[Unaired Buffy the Vampire Slayer pilot]]" <small>(non-canon)</small>||align="center"| (Aired on The WB) 2006 ||align="center"| 4V00 ||align="center"| 000 ||align="center"| 1x00
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|colspan="6"| [[Buffy Summers]] arrives in [[Sunnydale]], and must take up vampire hunting. She meets [[Cordelia Chase|Cordelia]], [[Willow Rosenberg|Willow]], and [[Xander Harris|Xander]], and saves Willow from vampires devoted to the [[The Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Master]].
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|| "[[Welcome to the Hellmouth]]" ||align="center"| [[March 10]], [[1997]]<ref name="imdb-ep-hellmouth">{{cite web
| url = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452716/
| title = "''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'': Welcome to the Hellmouth (1997)"
| work = [[Internet Movie Database]]
| accessdate = 2007-12-04
}}</ref><ref name="tvcom-ep-hellmouth">{{cite web
| url = http://www.tv.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer/welcome-to-the-hellmouth-1/episode/1/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;1
| title = "''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'': Welcome to the Hellmouth (1)"
| work = TV.com
| accessdate = 2007-12-04
}}</ref> ||align="center"| 4V01 ||align="center"| 001 ||align="center"| 1x01
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|colspan="6"| Buffy arrives in Sunnydale and is not happy to meet her new [[Watcher (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Watcher]], [[Rupert Giles]]. A mysterious [[Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|"friend"]] offers guidance, but Buffy resists her destiny until Willow and [[Jesse McNally|Jesse]] are abducted. Buffy saves Willow from an ordinary vampire, but loses track of Jesse in a confrontation with [[Luke (Buffyverse)|Luke]], the Master's vampire vessel.
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|| "[[The Harvest (Buffy episode)|The Harvest]]" ||align="center"| [[March 10]], [[1997]]<ref name="imdb-ep-harvest">{{cite web
| url = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0533501/
| title = "''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'': The Harvest (1997)"
| work = [[Internet Movie Database]]
| accessdate = 2007-12-04
}}</ref><ref name="tvcom-ep-harvest">{{cite web
| url = http://www.tv.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer/the-harvest-2/episode/2/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;2
| title = "''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'': The Harvest (2)"
| work = TV.com
| accessdate = 2007-12-04
}}</ref> ||align="center"| 4V02 ||align="center"| 002 ||align="center"| 1x02
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|colspan="6"| After escaping from Luke, Buffy goes in search of Jesse, with a little help from Giles and Willow, from her mystery friend, Angel, and from Xander, who braves the dank, dark sewers with her. The Master plots the Harvest, a ritual designed to imbue him with strength enough to open the [[Hellmouth (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Hellmouth]], but Buffy defeats his minions in a showdown at [[The Bronze]].
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|| "[[Witch (Buffy episode)|Witch]]" ||align="center"| [[March 17]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 4V03 ||align="center"| 003 ||align="center"| 1x03
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|colspan="6"| Buffy tries out for [[Sunnydale High]]'s cheerleading squad. The Scoobies at first suspect that [[Amy Madison|Amy]] is causing all the havoc but discover that her mother, also a practicing witch, has swapped bodies with her.
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|| "[[Teacher's Pet (Buffy episode)|Teacher's Pet]]" ||align="center"| [[March 24]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 4V04 ||align="center"| 004 ||align="center"| 1x04
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|colspan="6"| Xander is smitten by the substitute biology teacher, [[List of Buffyverse villains and supernatural beings#Monsters|Ms French]], who turns out to be a giant [[Praying mantis|praying mantis]] terrifying enough to make vampires run for cover. Angel's warning gives Buffy a vital clue and she rescues the virgin male students&mdash;including Xander&mdash;chosen to fertilize the creature's eggs.
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|| "[[Never Kill a Boy on the First Date]]" ||align="center"| [[March 31]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 4V05 ||align="center"| 005 ||align="center"| 1x05
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|colspan="6"| Buffy's lovelife is looking up when she goes on a date with the normal [[Sunnydale High School Students#Owen Thurman|Owen]], but when Owen nearly gets killed during Buffy's battle to save Giles and the others from the Master's vampires, she decides that "normal" dating might be too dangerous after all.
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|| "[[The Pack (Buffy episode)|The Pack]]" ||align="center"| [[April 7]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 4V06 ||align="center"| 006 ||align="center"| 1x06
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|colspan="5"| At the zoo, Xander and four other students sneak into the off-limits hyena habitat and become infected by an evil demon spirit. Xander and his pack grow more and more feral until Buffy, Giles and Willow reverse the spell.
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|| "[[Angel (Buffy episode)|Angel]]" ||align="center"| [[April 14]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 4V07 ||align="center"| 007 ||align="center"| 1x07
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|colspan="6"| Sharing their first kiss, Buffy is horrified to discover that Angel is a vampire. Bent on [[Slayer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Slaying]] him, Buffy learns that Angel's soul was restored by a Gypsy curse, making him unique&mdash;and reviled&mdash;among his fellow undead. Angel stakes Darla, the vampire who made him, as she attempts to assassinate Buffy for the Master.
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|| "[[I, Robot... You, Jane]]" ||align="center"| [[April 28]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 4V08 ||align="center"| 008 ||align="center"| 1x08
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|colspan="6"| Willow meets a boy on the Internet, but "Malcolm" is really Moloch, an ancient demon released from bondage after Willow scanned his "book" into the school's computer. With help from [[Jenny Calendar|Ms Calendar]], Sunnydale High's computer teacher, Buffy foils Moloch's plan to upload himself into a giant robot.
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|| "[[The Puppet Show]]" ||align="center"| [[May 5]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 4V09 ||align="center"| 009 ||align="center"| 1x09
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|colspan="6"| After [[Minor characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer#Principal Flutie|Principal Flutie]]'s death, the new sheriff in Sunnydale High, [[Principal Snyder]], forces Buffy and her friends to participate in the school talent show. When a boy's heart is harvested, Buffy suspects a fellow student and his strangely talkative [[Ventriloquism|dummy]].
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|| "[[Nightmares (Buffy episode)|Nightmares]]" ||align="center"| [[May 12]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 4V10 ||align="center"| 010 ||align="center"| 1x10
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|colspan="6"| Sunnydale residents find their worst nightmares coming true and Buffy learns that a little boy in a coma is the cause. To solve the problem, the gang must wake him up and help him confront his fears.
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|| "[[Out of Mind, Out of Sight]]" ||align="center"| [[May 19]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 4V11 ||align="center"| 011 || align="center"| 1x11
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|colspan="6"| Ignored by students and teachers alike, Marcie literally becomes invisible, then uses her affliction to terrorize Cordelia and her friends. Sympathetic at first, Buffy nevertheless stops Marcie when she goes too far. Men in black come to take Marcie away.
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|| "[[Prophecy Girl]]" ||align="center"| [[June 2]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 4V12 ||align="center"| 012 ||align="center"| 1x12
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|colspan="6"| Buffy quits Slaying when a prophecy predicts she will die in battle against the Master and the [[Anointed One (Buffyverse)|Anointed One]], but soon puts aside her fear and enters the fray on her own timetable and terms. In fulfillment of prophecy, the Master indeed kills the Slayer and opens the Hellmouth, but learns too late that Buffy is resilient and unpredictable&mdash;and lethal.
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==Season 2 (1997 – 1998)==
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|| "[[When She Was Bad]]" ||align="center"| [[September 15]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 5V01 ||align="center"| 013 ||align="center"| 2x01
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|colspan="6"| Buffy suffers a vision in which [[The Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|the Master]], undead and undusted, kills her once again. The [[Anointed One (Buffyverse)|Anointed One]] plans to resurrect the slain Master in a ritual using his exhumed skeleton, with kidnapped [[Scooby Gang]] members as blood sacrifices. Buffy rescues her friends, then deals with her residual fear and anger by obliterating the Master entirely.
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|| "[[Some Assembly Required (Buffy episode)|Some Assembly Required]]" ||align="center"| [[September 22]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 5V02 ||align="center"| 014 ||align="center"|2x02
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|colspan="6"| Bodies of girls killed in traffic accidents are being dug from their graves. The culprits are two science students, Chris and Eric, using pieces of the girls to create a bride for Chris' monstrous brother, Daryl. The only thing the young Frankensteins need now is Cordy's head&mdash;can [[Scooby Gang]] members arrive in time to save her?
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|| "[[School Hard]]" ||align="center"| [[September 29]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 5V03 ||align="center"| 015 ||align="center"|2x03
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|colspan="6"| The Night of St. Vigeous is fast approaching, when the power of all vampires will be at its peak. [[Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Spike]] and [[Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Drusilla]] blast into town and learn that Sunnydale has its very own Slayer. Impatient to add a third notch to his tally of Slayer-kills, Spike attacks Buffy at Sunnydale High on Parent Teacher Night&mdash;with disastrous results.
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|| "[[Inca Mummy Girl]]" ||align="center"| [[October 6]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 5V04 ||align="center"| 016 ||align="center"|2x04
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|colspan="5"| After the seal of protection lying in her sarcophagus is broken, a mummified [[Incan]] girl in a museum exhibit is revivified when she sucks the life-force from a touring student. An unsuspecting [[Xander Harris|Xander]] falls head over heels for the Latin beauty, Ampata, and must save [[Willow Rosenberg|Willow]] when his mistake threatens to cost her life.
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|| "[[Reptile Boy]]" ||align="center"| [[October 13]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 5V05||align="center"| 017 ||align="center"|2x05
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|colspan="6"| Upset again at Angel, Buffy lies to Giles and goes to a [[fraternities and sororities|frat]] party with [[Cordelia Chase|Cordelia]], where their dates drug them and chain them in the basement. The house brothers worship a snake demon and sacrifice girls to it annually in exchange for wealth and power. Giles, Angel and Willow compare notes and meet up with Xander just in time to help Buffy break up the cabal.
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|| "[[Halloween (Buffy episode)|Halloween]]" ||align="center"| [[October 27]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 5V06 ||align="center"| 018 ||align="center"|2x06
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|colspan="6"| Costume shop owner [[Ethan Rayne]] casts a spell that transforms kids into their costume personas. Angel and Cordelia try to help as Willow becomes a ghost, Xander a soldier and Buffy a brainless, helpless 18th-century noblewoman. Spike joins the fun and tries to take advantage of the Slayer's predicament, but Giles breaks Ethan's spell at a critical moment.
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|| "[[Lie to Me (Buffy episode)|Lie to Me]]" ||align="center"| [[November 2]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 5V07 ||align="center"| 019 ||align="center"|2x07
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|colspan="6"| Out patrolling, Buffy spies Angel with a demonstrative Drusilla, then catches him in a lie later. Billy "Ford" Fordham, Buffy's long-time LA school chum, transfers to Sunnydale High, but nobody suspects he is negotiating a deal with Spike&mdash;and offering the Slayer as trade goods. Angel discreetly enlists Willow's help.
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|| "[[The Dark Age]]" ||align="center"| [[November 10]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 5V08 ||align="center"| 020 ||align="center"|2x08
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|colspan="6"| Haunted by his dark past when he was known as Ripper, Giles confronts his old crony Ethan Rayne in an attempt to save Jenny from the lethal consequences of possession by the demon Eyghon. With Giles and the Slayer slated as its next victims, demon-ridden Angel forces Eyghon to possess him instead.
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|| "[[What's My Line, Part One]]" ||align="center"| [[November 17]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 5V09 ||align="center"| 021 ||align="center"|2x09
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|colspan="6"| To get help killing Buffy while he intensifies his search for Dru's cure, Spike calls upon the Order of Taraka. Buffy is attacked by a series of assassins, one of whom identifies herself as "Kendra, the Vampire Slayer." Kendra, having seen "vampire" Buffy kissing vampire Angel, has already taken Angel out of the picture.
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|| "[[What's My Line, Part Two]]" ||align="center"| [[November 24]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 5V10 ||align="center"| 022 ||align="center"|2x10
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|colspan="6"| While Career Week drags on at Sunnydale High, Buffy and Kendra form an uneasy alliance to stop Spike from sacrificing Angel, whose blood, ritually spilled when the moon is full, is Drusilla's only cure. The Slayers bring Spike's plan, to host a massive killing spree for Dru's "coming out party," down around his ears.
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|| "[[Ted (Buffy episode)|Ted]]" ||align="center"| [[December 8]], [[1997]] ||align="center"| 5V11 ||align="center"| 023 ||align="center"|2x11
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|colspan="6"| Buffy returns home one evening to find her mother kissing a stranger in the kitchen. Joyce's date, Ted, turns abusive with Buffy, who accidentally kills him in self-defense. Believing herself guilty of manslaughter, the Slayer is hardly relieved to learn that Ted is a serial killer android targeting Joyce as his next wife/victim.
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|| "[[Bad Eggs (Buffy episode)|Bad Eggs]]" ||align="center"| [[January 12]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 5V12 ||align="center"| 024 ||align="center"|2x12
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|colspan="6"| For Health class, students unknowingly adopt "eggs" of a Bezoar demon growing under the school. Its arachnoid "babies" are able to directly control a person's central nervous system. Dealing with a pair of outlaw vampire brothers in addition to slaying the enormous Bezoar before its progeny take over Sunnydale, Buffy gets ultra-grounded for her trouble.
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|| "[[Surprise (Buffy episode)|Surprise]]"||align="center"| [[January 19]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 5V13 ||align="center"| 025 ||align="center"|2x13
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|colspan="5"| Buffy turns 17 and the Scoobies plan a surprise party. Drusilla plans her own celebration as Spike collects her presents: the disassembled pieces of The Judge, an ancient demon called to cleanse the world of humanity. Stymied at every turn, Buffy and Angel go back to his place to regroup, where they confess their deepest feelings and make love for the first time.
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|| "[[Innocence (Buffy episode)|Innocence]]"||align="center"| [[January 20]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 5V14 ||align="center"| 026 ||align="center"|2x14
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|colspan="6"| Because he finds even "one moment of true happiness" in Buffy's arms, Angel's curse is nullified; he loses his soul and reverts to the vicious killer, Angelus. Jenny Calendar turns out to be a Gypsy spy. Devastated by these betrayals, Buffy still takes out the reputedly indestructible Judge using her birthday present from Xander&mdash;a stolen rocket launcher.
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|| "[[Phases (Buffy episode)|Phases]]" ||align="center"| [[January 27]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 5V15 ||align="center"| 027 ||align="center"|2x15
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|colspan="6"| There's a werewolf at large in Sunnydale and the Scoobies discover that it's [[Oz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Oz]]. Buffy tries to protect Sunnydale residents from the beast's savagery, and protect the savage beast from a bounty hunter who doesn't care that his target is human 27 days a month. Angelus stirs up trouble. Willow convinces Oz she still wants to see him, despite everything.
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|| "[[Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Buffy episode)|Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered]]" ||align="center"| [[February 10]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 5V16 ||align="center"| 028 ||align="center"|2x16
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|colspan="6"| Valentine's Day has everyone on edge. With secret reluctance, Cordelia dumps Xander to appease her friends. Crushed, Xander coerces Amy to cast a love spell, but it goes awry and every woman in Sunnydale, except Cordy, becomes pathologically attracted to him. A smitten Dru saves Xander from Angelus, but who will save him from the screaming mob?
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|| "[[Passion (Buffy episode)|Passion]]" ||align="center"| [[February 24]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 5V17 ||align="center"| 029 ||align="center"|2x17
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|colspan="6"| Angelus kicks his terror campaign against Buffy and her friends into high gear, leading them to believe Joyce is his next target. Jenny makes progress rediscovering the gypsy Ritual of Restoration and, with Buffy's terse blessing, gets back together with Giles. Jenny and Giles also work with Buffy and Willow to ritually revoke Angel's invitations into their various homes.
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|| "[[Killed by Death (Buffy episode)|Killed by Death]]" ||align="center"| [[March 3]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 5V18 ||align="center"| 030 ||align="center"|2x18
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|colspan="6"| After flu lands Buffy in the hospital, she rescues fevered children from [[Killed by Death (Buffy episode)|Der Kindestod]], a nightmare demon invisible to healthy people. When getting well means losing her ability to fight the demon, Buffy reinfects herself. In saving the other children, she also avenges her young cousin and puts her own hospital phobia to rest.
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|| "[[I Only Have Eyes for You (Buffy episode)|I Only Have Eyes for You]]" ||align="center"| [[April 28]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 5V19 ||align="center"| 031 ||align="center"|2x19
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|colspan="6"| The tortured ghost of a former Sunnydale High student reenacts a murder-suicide on the night of the school's [[Sadie Hawkins dance]]. Bespelled to play the parts, Buffy and Angelus change the tragic outcome just enough for the lovers' spirits to find peace, and for Buffy to learn the meaning of forgiveness.
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|| "[[Go Fish (Buffy episode)|Go Fish]]" ||align="center"| [[May 5]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 5V20 ||align="center"| 032 ||align="center"|2x20
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|colspan="6"| Xander goes undercover on the Sunnydale swim team after members begin turning up dead. Apparently, the swim-team coach gives fish/steroid cocktails to the swim team to get them to perform, but it turns them into sea monsters.
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|| "[[Becoming, Part One]]" ||align="center"| [[May 12]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 5V21 ||align="center"| 033 ||align="center"|2x21
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|colspan="6"| Kendra's Watcher sends her back to Sunnydale because a dark power is rising: Angelus has found a demon called Acathla and plans to perform the ritual that will allow Acathla to suck every living thing on the planet into hell.
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|| "[[Becoming, Part Two]]" ||align="center"| [[May 19]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 5V22 ||align="center"| 034 ||align="center"| 2x22
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|colspan="6"| With Kendra murdered by Drusilla, Willow in the hospital with head trauma and Giles kidnapped by Angelus, Buffy must decode [[List of minor Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters#Whistler|Whistler]]'s cryptic clues and accept help from an unexpected source to be able to prevent the world from being sucked into Acathla's hell dimension.
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==Season 3 (1998 – 1999)==
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|| "[[Anne (Buffy episode)|Anne]]" ||align="center"| [[September 29]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 3ABB01 ||align="center"| 035 ||align="center"| 3x01
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|colspan="5"| Still not knowing where Buffy is, the rest of the gang returns to school. When Buffy, who is living under an assumed identity, is recognised in a diner, she begins her fight to return home from the Netherworld she has fallen into.
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|| "[[Dead Man's Party (Buffy episode)|Dead Man's Party]]" ||align="center"| [[October 6]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 3ABB02 ||align="center"| 036 ||align="center"| 3x02
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|colspan="5"| Buffy struggles to fit back into Sunnydale life. She feels her friends and family have grown distant while she was away. Battling an army of zombies called forth by a Nigerian demon mask brings everyone back together.
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|| "[[Faith, Hope & Trick]]" ||align="center"| [[October 13]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 3ABB03 ||align="center"| 037 ||align="center"| 3x03
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|colspan="5"| Another Slayer, [[Faith Lehane|Faith]], arrives in Sunnydale, closely tracked by two vampires, thoroughly modern [[Mr. Trick]] and incredibly ancient [[Kakistos]]. With Buffy's encouragement, Faith finally stakes the formidable Kakistos. Buffy, finally, accepts [[Sunnydale High School students#Scott Hope|Scott Hope]]'s invitation to date, not knowing that Angel has magically returned.
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|| "[[Beauty and the Beasts]]" ||align="center"| [[October 20]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 3ABB04 ||align="center"| 038 ||align="center"| 3x04
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|colspan="5"| After [[Daniel "Oz" Osbourne|Oz]] escapes from his cage, everyone suspects that he committed last night's brutal murders. Only Buffy knows that Angel is a suspect as well. The [[Scooby Gang|Scoobies]] discover that the murderer is their Jekyll/Hyde classmate, Pete.
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|| "[[Homecoming (Buffy episode)|Homecoming]]" ||align="center"| [[November 3]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 3ABB05||align="center"| 039 ||align="center"| 3x05
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|colspan="5"| Buffy and [[Cordelia Chase|Cordelia]] compete for Homecoming Queen while Mr. Trick organizes SlayerFest '98. Willow and Xander kiss, although each sees someone else. Unknown to SlayerFest personnel, Cordelia changes places with Faith. Buffy and Cordy reconcile while defeating Mr. Trick's contestants.
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|| "[[Band Candy]]" ||align="center"| [[November 10]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 3ABB06 ||align="center"| 040 ||align="center"| 3x06
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|colspan="5"| A candy created by Ethan Rayne causes Sunnydale's adults to behave like teenagers. Buffy confronts Rayne and foils a plan to sacrifice Sunnydale newborns to a monster in the sewers.
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|| "[[Revelations (Buffy episode)|Revelations]]" ||align="center"| [[November 17]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 3ABB07 ||align="center"| 041 ||align="center"| 3x07
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|colspan="5"| Faith's new Watcher, Gwendolyn Post, turns out to be an impostor. Xander discovers Buffy's secret and manipulates Faith into attempting to slay Angel.
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|| "[[Lovers Walk]]" ||align="center"| [[November 24]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 3ABB08 ||align="center"| 042 ||align="center"| 3x08
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|colspan="5"| A lovelorn Spike returns and kidnaps Willow to cast a love spell on [[Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Drusilla]]. Stashing Willow and a wounded Xander at the factory, Spike soon concocts a new plan and leaves Sunnydale as abruptly as he came, unaware that wedges have been driven into every relationship around him.
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|| "[[The Wish (Buffy episode)|The Wish]]" ||align="center"| [[December 8]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 3ABB09 ||align="center"| 043 ||align="center"| 3x09
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|colspan="5"| Cordelia's pain over Xander's betrayal summons Anyanka, a demon who grants wishes to scorned women. In an alternate reality, the Master rises at the Harvest and takes over Sunnydale, but Giles is able to reverse events by destroying Anyanka's power center.
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|| "[[Amends]]" ||align="center"| [[December 15]], [[1998]] ||align="center"| 3ABB10 ||align="center"| 044 ||align="center"| 3x10
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|colspan="5"| The [[First Evil]] is driving Angel insane, appearing as victims of his past crimes, priming him to kill Buffy. Instead, he tries to kill himself by waiting outside for the sunrise, but the sun doesn't shine that unexpectedly wintry day in southern California.
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|| "[[Gingerbread (Buffy episode)|Gingerbread]]" ||align="center"| [[January 12]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 3ABB11 ||align="center"| 045 ||align="center"| 3x11
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|colspan="5"| Children are being killed as part of a cult sacrifice and Joyce leads the town in a witch hunt. Buffy, Willow and Amy are tied to stakes and Giles and Cordelia rescue them. Amy turns herself into a rat to escape the angry mob.
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|| "[[Helpless (Buffy episode)|Helpless]]" ||align="center"| [[January 19]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 3ABB12 ||align="center"| 046 ||align="center"| 3x12
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|colspan="5"| Giles secretly prepares Buffy for the Cruciamentum, an ordeal the Watchers Council requires every Slayer endure on her eighteenth birthday. Giles helps Buffy, thereby failing his own secret test, and is dismissed from his job as Watcher because he "feels a father's love" for his Slayer.
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|| "[[The Zeppo]]" ||align="center"| [[January 26]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 3ABB13 ||align="center"| 047 ||align="center"| 3x13
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|colspan="5"| Xander tries to be cool and hangs out with Jack O'Toole, who resurrects three of his former buddies. Xander saves the world by defeating Jack in a contest of wills. His quiet victory gives the others the chance they need to prevent the Sisterhood of Jhe from reopening the Hellmouth.
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|| "[[Bad Girls (Buffy episode)|Bad Girls]]" ||align="center"| [[February 9]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 3ABB14 ||align="center"| 048 ||align="center"| 3x14
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|colspan="5"| The Slayers get a new Watcher, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. The girls are having a wild night at The Bronze, where Angel brings info on the whereabouts of the demon, Balthazar. While on the hunt, Faith accidentally kills the Deputy Mayor, a human. Buffy wants to come forward, but Faith claims she "doesn't care."
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|| "[[Consequences (Buffy episode)|Consequences]]" ||align="center"| [[February 16]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 3ABB15 ||align="center"| 049 ||align="center"| 3x15
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|colspan="5"| Faith tells Giles that Buffy is the one who slew the Deputy Mayor, but Giles guesses the truth. Angel apprehends Faith, but Wesley thwarts his intervention and allows Faith to escape. She plans to leave town on the next freighter, but secretly enters the Mayor's employ, after dusting his assassin, Mr. Trick.
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|| "[[Doppelgangland]]" ||align="center"| [[February 23]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 3ABB16 ||align="center"| 050 ||align="center"| 3x16
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|colspan="5"| Wanting to be a vengeance demon again, Anya tricks Willow into helping with a spell to retrieve her power center, the amulet Giles destroyed in an alternate reality ("[[The Wish (Buffy episode)|The Wish]]"). Instead of the amulet, however, the spell transports Willow's vampire version to an unsuspecting Sunnydale.
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|| "[[Enemies (Buffy episode)|Enemies]]" ||align="center"| [[March 16]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 3ABB17 ||align="center"| 051 ||align="center"| 3x17
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|colspan="5"| The Mayor and Faith plot to steal Angel's soul and let Angelus remove Buffy from the picture. An overconfident Faith reveals she's gone rogue, as well as details about the Mayor's Ascension, before Buffy and Angel tell her that it's all been a sting. Afterwards, Buffy tells Angel she needs some time apart.
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|| "[[Earshot (Buffy episode)|Earshot]]" ||align="center"| [[September 21]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 3ABB18 ||align="center"| 052 ||align="center"| 3x18
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|colspan="5"| Buffy is infected by a demon's blood and gains the ability to read minds. As she goes insane, Angel, Giles and Wesley struggle to save her. At Sunnydale High, Buffy and Xander stop a potential sniper and a mass murder.
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|| "[[Choices (Buffy episode)|Choices]]" ||align="center"| [[May 4]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 3ABB19 ||align="center"| 053 ||align="center"| 3x19
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|colspan="5"| Buffy launches an offensive to shut down the Mayor's plans for Ascension. Willow chooses among colleges while Xander plans a road trip. Buffy and Angel cannot see a way around the obstacles to a successful life together.
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|| "[[The Prom (Buffy episode)|The Prom]]" ||align="center"| [[May 11]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 3ABB20 ||align="center"| 054 ||align="center"| 3x20
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|colspan="5"| Angel decides to do the right thing and break up with Buffy. Buffy saves the prom from Hellhounds with a fetish for formal wear. Angel shows up for the last dance.
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|| "[[Graduation Day, Part One]]" ||align="center"| [[May 18]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 3ABB21 ||align="center"| 055 ||align="center"| 3x21
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|colspan="5"| While the Mayor prepares for his Ascension, Buffy battles Faith to save Angel's life, needing her Slayer blood as antidote. She stabs Faith, but Faith jumps off the balcony and lands on a moving flatbed truck.
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|| "[[Graduation Day, Part Two]]" ||align="center"| [[July 13]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 3ABB22 ||align="center"| 056 ||align="center"| 3x22
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|colspan="5"| Buffy forces Angel to feed on her to save his life and he must rush her to the hospital to save hers. The Mayor Ascends, and the Class of '99 blows him and the school away. Meanwhile, Faith remains in a coma, from which the doctors don't expect her to ever wake. Angel leaves Sunnydale for LA, where the spinoff series ''[[Angel (TV series)|Angel]]'' takes place.
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==Season 4 (1999 – 2000)==
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|| "[[The Freshman (Buffy episode)|The Freshman]]" ||align="center"| [[October 5]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 4ABB01 ||align="center"| 057 ||align="center"| 4x01
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|colspan="5"| While Willow blossoms in the college environment, Buffy has a difficult time adjusting - getting lost, getting kicked out of a class for talking, meeting her Cher-loving roommate Kathy - and her Slaying suffers because of it.
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|| "[[Living Conditions]]" ||align="center"| [[October 12]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 4ABB02 ||align="center"| 058 ||align="center"| 4x02
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|colspan="5"| Buffy becomes convinced that her annoying roommate is evil, but her friends think she is mad. Buffy steals Kathy's toenail clippings to prove that Kathy is a demon and they get into a fight.
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|| "[[The Harsh Light of Day (Buffy episode)|The Harsh Light of Day]]" ||align="center"| [[October 19]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 4ABB03 ||align="center"| 059 ||align="center"| 4x03
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|colspan="5"| Spike returns to Sunnydale for a gem that will make him invincible, he finds it, but Buffy gets it away from him and decides to send it to Angel; Buffy returns to dating but ends up being let down and hurt.
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|| "[[Fear, Itself]]" ||align="center"| [[October 26]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 4ABB04 ||align="center"| 060 ||align="center"| 4x04
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|colspan="5"| The gang finds themselves in a real-life house of horrors while a Halloween frat party, in which a fear demon feeds on their individual fears. Meanwhile, Anya needs Giles to help her save Xander when she realizes something is amiss.
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|| "[[Beer Bad]]" ||align="center"| [[November 2]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 4ABB05 ||align="center"| 061 ||align="center"| 4x05
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|colspan="5"| Xander gets a job bar tending at the college pub; Buffy drinks with an upperclassmen at that pub. It turns out that the bar manager is spiking the beer with some supernatural mojo, causing the targets to revert to caveman mentality.
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|| "[[Wild at Heart (Buffy episode)|Wild at Heart]]" ||align="center"| [[November 9]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 4ABB06 ||align="center"| 062 ||align="center"| 4x06
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|colspan="5"| Oz meets another werewolf (Veruca) and locks her in his cage to prevent her from attacking people. Willow comes to the cage the next morning to find them naked together. Veruca tries to kill Willow, Oz-wolf kills Veruca, and Buffy stops him from attacking Willow.
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|| "[[The Initiative]]" ||align="center"| [[November 16]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 4ABB07 ||align="center"| 063 ||align="center"| 4x07
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|colspan="5"| Spike, who was captured by the commandos, is being held hostage by them in a hi-tech facility underneath the University. Spike manages to escape and heads to find Buffy, who he assumes is behind this; Riley realizes he has a crush on Buffy.
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|| "[[Pangs]]" ||align="center"| [[November 23]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 4ABB08 ||align="center"| 064 ||align="center"| 4x08
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|colspan="5"| Xander accidentally releases Hus, a [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] [[vengeance]] [[spirit]]. Angel secretly arrives in Sunnydale to protect Buffy (who is attempting a perfect Thanksgiving) from the spirit.
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|| "[[Something Blue]]" ||align="center"| [[November 30]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 4ABB09 ||align="center"| 065 ||align="center"| 4x09
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|colspan="5"| A spell by Willow goes awry, blinding Giles, and causing Buffy and Spike to fall in love and get engaged. Willow breaks the spell and Buffy and Spike find themselves in the middle of a kiss.
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|| "[[Hush (Buffy episode)|Hush]]" ||align="center"| [[December 14]], [[1999]] ||align="center"| 4ABB10 ||align="center"| 066 ||align="center"| 4x10
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|colspan="5"| The Gentlemen steal the voices of the population of [[Sunnydale]], rendering everyone in the town (including the [[Scooby Gang]]) unable to speak. Giles reveals that the only thing that can defeat The Gentleman is a real human scream.
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|| "[[Doomed (Buffy episode)|Doomed]]" ||align="center"| [[January 18]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 4ABB11 ||align="center"| 067 ||align="center"| 4x11
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|colspan="5"| An earthquake occurs in Sunnydale, which signifies the Hellmouth is opening. The gang must return to the remains of Sunnydale High to stop it; Buffy and Riley struggle with each other's secrets.
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|| "[[A New Man]]" ||align="center"| [[January 25]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 4ABB12 ||align="center"| 068 ||align="center"| 4x12
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|colspan="5"| Giles, feeling left out, goes out for drinks with [[Ethan Rayne]]. He wakes up in the morning as a [[Fyarl demon]], and hires Spike to help him. Mistaking him for a Fyarl demon, The Initiative and Buffy try to hunt him down.
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|| "[[The I in Team]]" ||align="center"| [[February 8]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 4ABB13 ||align="center"| 069 ||align="center"| 4x13
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|colspan="5"| When [[Maggie Walsh|Professor Walsh]] decides Buffy is a threat to The Initiative, she decides to kill her by sending her on a dangerous mission. Riley discovers that Professor Walsh has tried to kill Buffy and begins to think seriously of leaving the organization.
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|| "[[Goodbye Iowa]]" ||align="center"| [[February 15]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 4ABB14 ||align="center"| 070 ||align="center"| 4x14
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|colspan="5"| Buffy discovers The Initiative's secret weapon; Riley becomes unstable due to the death of Professor Walsh and drug withdrawal; Adam reveals some information about himself, while trying to learn about people by investigating their insides.
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|| "[[This Year's Girl]]"||align="center"| [[February 22]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 4ABB15 ||align="center"| 071 ||align="center"| 4x15
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|colspan="5"| Faith wakes up from her eight month coma and seeks revenge against Buffy. After failing to attack her, she switches bodies with Buffy using a gift given to her by [[Richard Wilkins III]].
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|| "[[Who Are You (Buffy episode)|Who Are You]]"||align="center"| [[February 29]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 4ABB16 ||align="center"| 072 ||align="center"| 4x16
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|colspan="5"| Buffy (in Faith's body) is abducted by the Council's team, while Faith (in Buffy's body) has ruthless fun on the expense of Buffy. After rescuing a group of people in a church that has been attacked by vampires, they switch their bodies back.
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|| "[[Superstar (Buffy episode)|Superstar]]" ||align="center"| [[April 4]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 4ABB17 ||align="center"| 073 ||align="center"| 4x17
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|colspan="5"| [[Jonathan Levinson|Jonathan]] casts a spell to cause all of [[Sunnydale]] to believe that he is the titular "superstar". However, the spell comes with a price - it conjures up a monster which endangers the town.
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|| "[[Where the Wild Things Are (Buffy episode)|Where the Wild Things Are]]" ||align="center"| [[April 25]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 4ABB18 ||align="center"| 074 ||align="center"| 4x18
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|colspan="5"| When Buffy and Riley rouse a supernatural force at the fraternity party house, they are held hostage by ghost children who were abused by a [[Christian fundamentalist]] and now seek revenge. Willow, Tara and Giles perform a spell to stop the spirits.
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|| "[[New Moon Rising]]" ||align="center"| [[May 2]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 4ABB19 ||align="center"| 075 ||align="center"| 4x19
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|colspan="5"| Oz returns to Sunnydale after learning to control his werewolf instincts. However, he loses control when he suspects Tara and Willow's relationship, and is subsequently caught by the Initiative.
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|| "[[The Yoko Factor]]"||align="center"| [[May 9]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 4ABB20 ||align="center"| 076 ||align="center"| 4x20
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|colspan="5"| Riley spars with Angel when Angel visits Sunnydale; Adam convinces Spike that he will take his chip out if he helps him get Buffy where he wants, Spike agrees and sets out to distance the Scoobies from each other.
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|| "[[Primeval (Buffy episode)|Primeval]]"||align="center"| [[May 16]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 4ABB21 ||align="center"| 077 ||align="center"| 4x21
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|colspan="5"| The Scoobies reveal Adam's plan of releasing an army of hybrid cyborg monsters. Buffy, into an eerie version of herself with the help of the gang's magic, manages to kill Adam after an intense fight.
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|| "[[Restless (Buffy episode)|Restless]]" ||align="center"| [[May 23]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 4ABB22 ||align="center"| 078 ||align="center"| 4x22
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|colspan="5"| A primordial spirit haunts Buffy, Giles, Willow and Xander in their individual, cryptic nightmares involving the [[First Slayer]] as a result from the magic done in the previous episode.
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==Season 5 (2000 – 2001)==
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|| "[[Buffy vs. Dracula]]" ||align="center"| [[September 26]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 5ABB01 ||align="center"| 079 ||align="center"| 5x01
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|colspan="5"| [[Buffy Summers|Buffy]] faces [[Dracula|Count Dracula]] who has come to [[Sunnydale]] to make her one of his concubines. Dracula turns [[Xander Harris|Xander]] into a [[Renfield]] of sorts, before being defeated but not killed.
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|| "[[Real Me (Buffy episode)|Real Me]]" ||align="center"| [[October 3]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 5ABB02 ||align="center"| 080 ||align="center"| 5x02
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|colspan="5"| Buffy is having trouble getting along with her new sister [[Dawn Summers|Dawn]], who is kidnapped by Harmony's gang. Harmony makes two inept attempts on Buffy's life, but fails each time and Dawn is saved.
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|| "[[The Replacement]]" ||align="center"| [[October 10]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 5ABB03 ||align="center"| 081 ||align="center"| 5x03
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|colspan="5"| Xander is split into two people by a demon, one strong, the other weak. The lame Xander is unhappy that the cool Xander lives his life better than he can, getting an apartment and a date with [[Anya Jenkins|Anya]].
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|| "[[Out of My Mind (Buffy episode)|Out of My Mind]]" ||align="center"| [[October 17]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 5ABB04 ||align="center"| 082 ||align="center"| 5x04
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|colspan="5"| [[Riley Finn|Riley]] is risking his health to be able to fight with Buffy. His super soldier enhancement is destroying his heart. Buffy enlists [[Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Spike]] to take Riley to the doctor, but instead Spike kidnaps the doctor to remove his chip.
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|| "[[No Place Like Home (Buffy episode)|No Place Like Home]]" ||align="center"| [[October 24]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 5ABB05 ||align="center"| 083 ||align="center"| 5x05
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|colspan="5"| The new Bad Girl ([[Glorificus|Glory]]), is looking for "The Key." Buffy meets Glory, who kicks her ass, and a monk, who explains to her that she doesn't actually have a sister — Dawn is The Key, sent to Buffy for protection.
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|| "[[Family (Buffy episode)|Family]]" ||align="center"| [[November 7]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 5ABB06 ||align="center"| 084 ||align="center"| 5x06
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|colspan="5"| [[Tara Maclay|Tara]] is about to celebrate her 20th birthday, and her family comes to abduct her before she becomes a demon. Glory sends demons after the Slayer, and Tara accidentally helps them.
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|| "[[Fool for Love (Buffy episode)|Fool for Love]]" ||align="center"| [[November 14]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 5ABB07 ||align="center"| 085 ||align="center"| 5x07
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|colspan="5"| After a close call, Buffy asks Spike about the slayers he's killed; he exploited their death wish. Buffy rebuffs Spike's advances, and he comforts her after first thinking of killing her.
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|| "[[Shadow (Buffy episode)|Shadow]]" ||align="center"| [[November 21]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 5ABB08 ||align="center"| 086 ||align="center"| 5x08
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|colspan="5"| [[Joyce Summers]] has brain cancer, and Buffy worries about how Dawn will take it. In addition, Buffy must keep her sister safe from Glory and her magic snake.
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|| "[[Listening to Fear]]" ||align="center"| [[November 28]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 5ABB09 ||align="center"| 087 ||align="center"| 5x09
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|colspan="5"| As Buffy and Dawn help their mother prepare for surgery, an extraterrestrial preys on Sunnydale's mental patients and follows Joyce home. The alien was summoned by Ben to clean up Glory's mess, and Buffy kills it.
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|| "[[Into the Woods (Buffy episode)|Into the Woods]]" ||align="center"| [[December 19]], [[2000]] ||align="center"| 5ABB10 ||align="center"| 088 ||align="center"| 5x10
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|colspan="5"| After sex with him, Buffy learns Riley has been going to a vampire brothel to be sucked. She confronts him, and he says he's going away with the military if she doesn't give him a reason to stay. She wants him to stay, but doesn't tell him in time.
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|| "[[Triangle (Buffy episode)|Triangle]]" ||align="center"| [[January 9]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 5ABB11 ||align="center"| 089 ||align="center"| 5x11
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|colspan="5"| Emotions between Willow and Anya come to a boil over Xander, and they summon a troll ([[Minor characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer#Olaf|Olaf]]). The troll tries to make Xander choose between the women, but Buffy sends him packing.
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|| "[[Checkpoint (Buffy episode)|Checkpoint]]" ||align="center"| [[January 23]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 5ABB12 ||align="center"| 090 ||align="center"| 5x12
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|colspan="5"| The Watcher's Council withholds information about Glory from Buffy. Glory and the Knights of Byzantium target Buffy, and she realizes it's because she has power over them. She orders Quentin to give her the scoop on Glory; she's a god, not a demon.
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|| "[[Blood Ties (Buffy episode)|Blood Ties]]" ||align="center"| [[February 6]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 5ABB13 ||align="center"| 091 ||align="center"| 5x13
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|colspan="5"| Dawn discovers that she is the Key, becomes depressed, and runs away. She tells her tale to Ben, who morphs into Glory. Glory decides Dawn doesn't know the Key's location, and Willow and Tara teleport Glory elsewhere.
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|| "[[Crush (Buffy episode)|Crush]]" ||align="center"| [[February 13]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 5ABB14 ||align="center"| 092 ||align="center"| 5x14
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|colspan="5"| Spike's profession of love for Buffy is spurned when Drusilla returns. He offers to kill Dru, but Buffy is unimpressed. He saves Buffy from Dru, but has his invitation to the Summers' home revoked.
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|| "[[I Was Made to Love You]]" ||align="center"| [[February 20]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 5ABB15 ||align="center"| 093 ||align="center"| 5x15
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|colspan="5"| A robot girlfriend, April, is abandoned by her creator, Warren. When April tries to kill Warren's current girlfriend, Buffy intervenes. Spike secretly coerces Warren into making him a robot of Buffy.
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|| "[[The Body (Buffy episode)|The Body]]" ||align="center"| [[February 27]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 5ABB16 ||align="center"| 094 ||align="center"| 5x16
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|colspan="5"| Buffy and the gang are crushed by the death of Joyce. Dawn goes to the morgue to see the body and is attacked by a vampire. Buffy saves her and watches as Dawn reaches to touch Joyce.
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|| "[[Forever (Buffy episode)|Forever]]" ||align="center"| [[April 17]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 5ABB17 ||align="center"| 095 ||align="center"| 5x17
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|colspan="5"| Buffy is comforted by Angel, although he can't stay. Dawn attempts to resurrect Joyce with the help of Spike and Doc, but stops part way through the ceremony.
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|| "[[Intervention (Buffy episode)|Intervention]]" ||align="center"| [[April 24]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 5ABB18 ||align="center"| 096 ||align="center"| 5x18
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|colspan="5"| The Scoobies discovers Spike's new toy; Glory's minions kidnap Spike, thinking he is the Key.
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|| "[[Tough Love (Buffy episode)|Tough Love]]" ||align="center"| [[May 1]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 5ABB19 ||align="center"| 097 ||align="center"| 5x19
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|colspan="5"| Glory thinks she has found the Key - Tara.
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|| "[[Spiral (Buffy episode)|Spiral]]" ||align="center"| [[May 8]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 5ABB20 ||align="center"| 098 ||align="center"| 5x20
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|colspan="5"| Glory discovers the Key, and Buffy and company must flee from the Knights of Byzantium, too.
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|| "[[The Weight of the World (Buffy episode)|The Weight of the World]]" ||align="center"| [[May 15]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 5ABB21 ||align="center"| 099 ||align="center"| 5x21
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|colspan="5"| Willow tries to reach the Slayer, who has been rendered catatonic by Dawn's abduction.
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|| "[[The Gift (Buffy episode)|The Gift]]" ||align="center"| [[May 22]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 5ABB22 ||align="center"| 100 ||align="center"| 5x22
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|colspan="5"| Buffy faces Glory as the ritual commences.
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==Season 6 (2001 – 2002)==
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|| "[[Bargaining, Part One]]"<br />"[[Bargaining, Part Two]]" ||align="center"| [[October 2]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 6ABB01<br />6ABB02 ||align="center"| 101<br />102 ||align="center"| 6x01<br />6x02
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|colspan="5"| Giles leaves town after wondering whether he still has a place in Sunnydale without Buffy. Meanwhile, a vampire discovers that the Slayer has been replaced by a robot. The Scoobies manage to raise Buffy from the dead with a powerful spell.
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|| "[[After Life (Buffy episode)|After Life]]" ||align="center"| [[October 9]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 6ABB03 ||align="center"| 103 ||align="center"| 6x03
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|colspan="5"| Spike warns that the resurrection spell could have serious consequences, and his assessment proves to be correct as members of the gang are possessed by an unseen force.
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|| "[[Flooded (Buffy episode)|Flooded]]" ||align="center"| [[October 16]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 6ABB04 ||align="center"| 104 ||align="center"| 6x04
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|colspan="5"| Warren, Andrew, and Jonathan have teamed up in order to take over Sunnydale; they manage to send an M'Fashnik demon to kill Buffy, who they believe to be their biggest threat.
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|| "[[Life Serial]]" ||align="center"| [[October 23]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 6ABB05 ||align="center"| 105 ||align="center"| 6x05
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|colspan="5"| Buffy will soon be in serious need of money to support herself and Dawn, and she tries to focus on doing something useful and profitable. However, her attempts fail as Jonathan, Warren and Andrew are after her to make her life more difficult.
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|| "[[All the Way (Buffy episode)|All the Way]]" ||align="center"| [[October 30]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 6ABB06 ||align="center"| 106 ||align="center"| 6x06
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|colspan="5"| Xander finally announces his engagement to Anya, and the group make their way back to Buffy's house to celebrate; Dawn sneaks out on Halloween by lying to Buffy. Willow uses magic with abandon.
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|| "[[Once More, with Feeling (Buffy episode)|Once More, with Feeling]]" ||align="center"| [[November 6]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 6ABB07 ||align="center"| 107 ||align="center"| 6x07
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|colspan="5"| A mysterious force compels Sunnydale residents to break out into song and dance numbers that reveal their true feelings, and a new demon in town, Sweet, seems to be responsible for it. Buffy and Spike share a kiss.
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|| "[[Tabula Rasa (Buffy episode)|Tabula Rasa]]" ||align="center"| [[November 13]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 6ABB08 ||align="center"| 108 ||align="center"| 6x08
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|colspan="5"| Willow and Tara argue over an [[amnesia]] spell, and Tara insists that Willow is dependent on magic. Willow promises to go a week without using magic but breaches the promise, causing the gang to forget who they are.
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|| "[[Smashed (Buffy episode)|Smashed]]" ||align="center"| [[November 20]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 6ABB09 ||align="center"| 109 ||align="center"| 6x09
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|colspan="5"| Willow finds herself alone without Tara and discovers she's now powerful enough to turn the metamorphosed Amy from a rat back into human. Spike discovers that he can hurt Buffy.
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|| "[[Wrecked (Buffy episode)|Wrecked]]" ||align="center"| [[November 27]], [[2001]] ||align="center"| 6ABB10 ||align="center"| 110 ||align="center"| 6x10
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|colspan="5"| Buffy is shaken by her previous meeting with Spike the night before, which caused the building around them to collapse. Willow gives up magic after abusing it and faces the symptoms of withdrawal.
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|| "[[Gone (Buffy episode)|Gone]]" ||align="center"| [[January 8]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 6ABB11 ||align="center"| 111 ||align="center"| 6x11
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|colspan="5"| A social services worker threatens to take Dawn away from Buffy. Jonathan, Warren and Andrew attempt to make themselves invisible, but the beam accidentally hits Buffy.
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|| "[[Doublemeat Palace]]" ||align="center"| [[January 29]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 6ABB12 ||align="center"| 112 ||align="center"| 6x12
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|colspan="5"| Buffy gets a job at the Doublemeat Palace, but suddenly comes with a strange theory over the food ingredients. Anya is visited by an old friend, [[Halfrek]], who questions her relationship with Xander.
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|| "[[Dead Things]]" ||align="center"| [[February 5]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 6ABB13 ||align="center"| 113 ||align="center"| 6x13
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|colspan="5"| Warren, Andrew and Jonathan try to make Warren's ex-girlfriend Katrina their sexual slave using magic, but when she fights back Warren kills her. They decide to make Buffy think that she has killed Katrina, using magical and demonic forces.
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|| "[[Older and Far Away]]" ||align="center"| [[February 12]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 6ABB14 ||align="center"| 114 ||align="center"| 6x14
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|colspan="5"| Dawn, feeling that nobody wants to spend time with her, makes a wish in front of a vengeance demon that everyone would stay with her. Fulfilling her wish, the demon causes everyone at Buffy's birthday party to be unable to leave.
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|| "[[As You Were (Buffy episode)|As You Were]]" ||align="center"| [[February 26]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 6ABB15 ||align="center"| 115 ||align="center"| 6x15
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|colspan="5"| Riley returns to town and enlists Buffy's help to track down a demon.
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|| "[[Hell's Bells (Buffy episode)|Hell's Bells]]" ||align="center"| [[March 5]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 6ABB16 ||align="center"| 116 ||align="center"| 6x16
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|colspan="5"| Before Xander and Anya's wedding, Xander's future self suddenly appears, and warns him that his marriage to Anya will be the beginning of a life of disgrace and pain.
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|| "[[Normal Again]]" ||align="center"| [[March 12]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 6ABB17 ||align="center"| 117 ||align="center"| 6x17
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|colspan="5"| Warren, Jonathan and Andrew unleash a demon whose powers make Buffy believe that her friends are figments of her imagination. Buffy attempts to attack her friends, locks them in her basement and unleashes the same demon on them. Tara eventually finds the trio and Buffy recovers from the Demon's poison by drinking an antidote.
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|| "[[Entropy (Buffy episode)|Entropy]]" ||align="center"| [[April 30]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 6ABB18 ||align="center"| 118 ||align="center"| 6x18
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|colspan="5"| Anya seeks vengeance on Xander and when looking for someone who wants the same, she finds comfort with Spike. Xander sees their impulsive behavior through a camera and tries to stake Spike. Willow and Tara arrange a date, which ends with the two of them kissing.
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|| "[[Seeing Red (Buffy episode)|Seeing Red]]" ||align="center"| [[May 7]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 6ABB19 ||align="center"| 119 ||align="center"| 6x19
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|colspan="5"| Willow and Tara reconcile, and Tara tells Willow that Spike and Buffy have been sleeping together; Buffy stops The Trio when attempting a large-scale theft, but Warren manages to escape with a jetpack. He returns the next day and shoots Buffy and Tara.
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|| "[[Villains (Buffy episode)|Villains]]" ||align="center"| [[May 14]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 6ABB20 ||align="center"| 120 ||align="center"| 6x20
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|colspan="5"| Willow's grief pushes her over the edge. After magically saving Buffy, a dark Willow hunts Warren down and eventually kills him in a gruesome way.
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|| "[[Two to Go]]" ||align="center"| [[May 21]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 6ABB21 ||align="center"| 121 ||align="center"| 6x21
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|colspan="5"| The Scoobies must protect Jonathan and Andrew from Willow.
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|| "[[Grave (Buffy episode)|Grave]]" ||align="center"| [[May 21]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 6ABB22 ||align="center"| 122 ||align="center"| 6x22
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|colspan="5"| Willow defeats Giles and decides to end her suffering and the world's by bringing on an apocalypse.
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==Season 7 (2002 – 2003)==
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|| "[[Lessons (Buffy episode)|Lessons]]" ||align="center"| [[September 24]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 7ABB01 ||align="center"| 123 ||align="center"| 7x01
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|colspan="5"| Dawn finds vengeful spirits in the new Sunnydale High; Giles is rehabilitating Willow in England.
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|| "[[Beneath You]]" ||align="center"| [[October 1]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 7ABB02 ||align="center"| 124 ||align="center"|7x02
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|colspan="5"| The gang deals with a giant underground demon; Willow prepares to return home.
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|| "[[Same Time, Same Place]]" ||align="center"| [[October 8]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 7ABB03 ||align="center"| 125 ||align="center"|7x03
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|colspan="5"| Willow cannot find her friends in Sunnydale, where bodies are found without skin.
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|| "[[Help (Buffy episode)|Help]]" ||align="center"| [[October 15]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 7ABB04 ||align="center"| 126 ||align="center"|7x04
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|colspan="5"| Buffy becomes a counselor at Sunnydale High and meets a girl who predicts her own death.
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|| "[[Selfless (Buffy episode)|Selfless]]" ||align="center"| [[October 22]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 7ABB05||align="center"| 127 ||align="center"|7x05
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|colspan="5"| Buffy deals with Anyanka after she grants a lethal wish; Anya's background story is also revealed.
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|| "[[Him (Buffy episode)|Him]]" ||align="center"| [[November 5]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 7ABB06 ||align="center"| 128 ||align="center"|7x06
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|colspan="5"| The young women of Sunnydale are falling for the high school quarterback; Xander and Spike become reluctant roommates.
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|| "[[Conversations with Dead People]]" ||align="center"| [[November 12]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 7ABB07 ||align="center"| 129 ||align="center"|7x07
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|colspan="5"| Buffy, Dawn, and Willow face individual encounters with familiar faces from their past. Also, Jonathan and Andrew return to Sunnydale to unearth a mysterious symbol.
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|| "[[Sleeper (Buffy episode)|Sleeper]]" ||align="center"| [[November 19]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 7ABB08 ||align="center"| 130 ||align="center"|7x08
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|colspan="5"| Buffy probes a series of grisly murders that may be the work of Spike.
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|| "[[Never Leave Me]]" ||align="center"| [[November 26]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 7ABB09 ||align="center"| 131 ||align="center"|7x09
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|colspan="5"| The Summers' home gains two captives: Spike and Andrew.
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|| "[[Bring on the Night (Buffy episode)|Bring on the Night]]" ||align="center"| [[December 17]], [[2002]] ||align="center"| 7ABB10 ||align="center"| 132 ||align="center"|7x10
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|colspan="5"| Giles arrives with three apprentice Slayers; the Scoobies research the First; Buffy fights an ancient vampire.
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|| "[[Showtime (Buffy episode)|Showtime]]" ||align="center"| [[January 7]], [[2003]] ||align="center"| 7ABB11 ||align="center"| 133 ||align="center"|7x11
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|colspan="5"| Buffy must win the confidence of potential slayers.
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|| "[[Potential (Buffy episode)|Potential]]" ||align="center"| [[January 21]], [[2003]] ||align="center"| 7ABB12 ||align="center"| 134 ||align="center"|7x12
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|colspan="5"| Buffy and Spike establish a boot camp to prepare the potential slayers for combat, while a spell from Willow reveals another potential in Sunnydale.
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|| "[[The Killer in Me]]" ||align="center"| [[February 4]], [[2003]] ||align="center"| 7ABB13 ||align="center"| 135 ||align="center"|7x13
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|colspan="5"| Willow must face her own demons; Buffy gets in touch with the government.
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|| "[[First Date (Buffy episode)|First Date]]" ||align="center"| [[February 11]], [[2003]] ||align="center"| 7ABB14 ||align="center"| 136 ||align="center"|7x14
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|colspan="5"| Buffy accepts a dinner invitation from Principal Wood; Anya is jealous when Xander has a date.
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|| "[[Get It Done]]" ||align="center"| [[February 18]], [[2003]] ||align="center"| 7ABB15 ||align="center"| 137 ||align="center"|7x15
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|colspan="5"| Buffy learns more about the First Slayer.
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|| "[[Storyteller (Buffy episode)|Storyteller]]" ||align="center"| [[February 25]], [[2003]] ||align="center"| 7ABB16 ||align="center"| 138 ||align="center"|7x16
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|colspan="5"| Andrew makes a documentary on the events in Sunnydale.
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|| "[[Lies My Parents Told Me]]" ||align="center"| [[March 25]], [[2003]] ||align="center"| 7ABB17 ||align="center"| 139 ||align="center"|7x17
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|colspan="5"| The gang investigates Spike's trigger; Principal Wood and Giles team up without Buffy.
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|| "[[Dirty Girls]]" ||align="center"| [[April 15]], [[2003]] ||align="center"| 7ABB18 ||align="center"| 140 ||align="center"|7x18
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|colspan="5"| Faith returns to Sunnydale; Buffy leads the troops into battle.
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|| "[[Empty Places]]" ||align="center"| [[April 29]], [[2003]] ||align="center"| 7ABB19 ||align="center"| 141 ||align="center"|7x19
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|colspan="5"| As the residents of Sunnydale evacuate, Buffy loses the trust of the group and is forced out of the house. Faith becomes the leader.
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|| "[[Touched (Buffy episode)|Touched]]" ||align="center"| [[May 6]], [[2003]] ||align="center"| 7ABB20 ||align="center"| 142 ||align="center"|7x20
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|colspan="5"| A depressed Buffy is comforted by Spike; the Scoobies capture and interrogate a Bringer; Faith decides on a plan.
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|| "[[End of Days (Buffy episode)|End of Days]]" ||align="center"| [[May 13]], [[2003]] ||align="center"| 7ABB21 ||align="center"| 143 ||align="center"|7x21
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|colspan="5"| Buffy finds a scythe in the cave; an old ally returns to Sunnydale.
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|| "[[Chosen (Buffy episode)|Chosen]]" ||align="center"| [[May 20]], [[2003]] ||align="center"| 7ABB22 ||align="center"| 144 ||align="center"| 7x22
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|colspan="5"| Buffy and her associates organize an attack on The First Evil. Willow uses a spell to invoke the chosen ones, the slayers. Spike uses the amulet and brings about the end of Sunnydale, and the Hellmouth. Final episode of "''Buffy The Vampire Slayer''"
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==See also==
*[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)]]
*[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs]]
*[[Buffy season 8|Buffy Season 8]]
*[[List of Angel episodes]]
*[[List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel episodes]]

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