Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20917 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-10-18
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: French, Dutch
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 528 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Vampire-slayer Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, a Californian community located above the "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

DVD Description
Disc Content & Special Features

DISC ONE:
Episode 1: Welcome to Hellmouth
Episode 2: The Harvest
Episode 3: The Witch
Episode 4: Teacher's Pet

Special Features:
Joss Whedon/David Boreanaz Interview
Buffy trailer
DVD-ROM content, screensavers & Buffy weblinks
Pilot script
Commentary, Episodes 1 & 2 contain Joss Whedon commentary

DISC TWO:
Episode 5: Never Kill a Boy on the First Date
Episode 6: The Pack
Episode 7: Angel
Episode 8: I Robot, You Jane

Special Features:
Music Video 'I Quit'
Photo Gallery

DISC THREE:
Episode 9: The Puppet Show
Episode 10: Nightmares
Episode 11: Out of Mind, Out of Sight
Episode 12: Prophecy Girl

Special Features:
Cast biographies

Special Features

• Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen 4:3
  
• Audio: Dolby 2.0 Stereo
  
• Languages: English, French
  
• Subtitles: English, French, Dutch, English for the hearing impaired
  
• Total Running Time: 8 hours and 48 minutes approx.
  
• Region Code: 2

Customer Reviews

Already reviewed this
Ok lots of different versions of the same first season. Good background but a little too much tongue in cheek, but good anyway

Season 1 : An Introduction to the Buffy Universe
Its wonderful to watch the original series where Buffy, Xander, Giles and Willow are introduced. The episodes on the DVD are stunningly sharp although there aren't that many special features.

My favourite episode is The Puppet Show. Sid is a great character and I can understand why they used him in the game. I also like the season finale.

Definitely worth buying!

Welcome to the Hellmouth
I remember watching these when they were originally on BBC 2 at 6 o'clock but I must say that I do not remember them being so good. It is my usual assumption that the first season of a new TV series are not as those of later seasons, but I feel that many of this seasons episodes must be up there with some of the best of all seven of the Buffy seasons. Of particular note is the season finally, with its mixture of comedy and tragedy, is in my view one of the best episodes of any such show I have ever seen.

Despite the quality of the episodes, I feel that for a special edition the boxed set is rather thin on the ground with only the basics biographies and a couple of interviews. On the plus side, however, the episode guide included in the boxed set is both informative and humorous, with comments on the continuity of each episode as well as notes on some of the background and in-jokes of each episode. All in all a great boxed set despite the lack of extras.