Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48048 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-10-30
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 39
• Running time: 7200 minutes

Synopsis
From the very first episode of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and throughout the course of its run of almost a decade, the show set the standard for quality television entertainment. Picking up where the film left off, the show followed Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) on her quest to rid the world of vampires, demons, and various other evil beings. A small band of friends were there to help her out, which included the vampire convert Angel (David Boreanaz), vampire and ambivalent love interest Spike (James Marsters), popular girl Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), regular guy Xander (Nicholas Brendon), and intellectual Willow (Alyson Hannigan). This collection includes series 1 to 7 of the show, allowing fans to trace the evolution of Buffy's relationships, fashion sense, and success at battling her true demon: her strong desire to be normal.

DVD Description
This incredible, limited edition box set includes all seven seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer with over 100 hours of vampire bashing fun. Perfect for long standing fans and those wanting to find out what all the fuss is about this is the definitive collection of the most popular TV fantasy show of the last decade. Running from 1997 to 2003 the show made stars of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, James Marsters, David Boreanaz and Gold Blend/Little Britain regular Anthony Stewart Head.

Customer Reviews

The best American show of the 90s.
After placing and then cancelling an order for this box set lest year, and then regretting this more than anything else over the following ten months when it became unavailable, I placed an immediate order for the box set when I saw it was being released again.

£134.99 may seem like a lot for a set of DVDs - that's what put me in two minds about buying it last year - but it isn't, not for this. Buffy the Vampire Slayer stands head and shoulders above any other American drama series of the 90s. For seven series, we watched as Buffy and her friends fought against demons, vampires, spooks and their own hormones. We watched them mature and grow up.

144 episodes in all, and hardly a weak one amongst them. The opening series was only 12 episodes long and saw the programme finding its feet, but by the second series (the best by a whisker) it was striding far ahead of anything else and was ready to introduce a major twist into the proceedings...

As the series progressed, characters departed, others arrived and bad guys turned good. Stand out episodes include 'Once More With Feeling' - the musical show, which worked infinitely better than it was feared - and many peoples' favourite (including my own), the near-silent 'Hush'.

If you're in two minds, as I was last year, all I can suggest is that you take the plunge and buy it or you'll regret it for many months. And buy the 'Angel' set, too - in spite of the brilliance of 'Buffy', its spin-off actually managed to eclipse it...

Solid lil investment!
You know, I only ever used to catch the odd episode of Buffy on TV. Either it was her having some trauma with Angel or something to do with the rather cold inflicted looking Master. As far as I was concerned it was just a bit of fun, pure standalone episodes, to pass an hour or so of my life away. This was, of course, until I stumbled across someone on an internet forum giving a season by season breakdown of the storylines. I'd never realised the links between each episode, each series, that takes young Buffy from a fashion conscious student at Sunnydale right up to being a General figure leading a bunch of potential slayers into an apocalyptic battle against an almost Lord Of The Rings-esque host of feral vampires and the overal essence of evil in the Hellmouth itself.

So I vowed one day to sit down and watch the entire series from start to finish to take in this epic opus. After finishing it I can say its pure class, the thought that goes into structuring the entire flow of the series. Little throwaway lines that pop up referring to events that may have happened seasons ago, little clues dropped in about the appearence of Dawn in Season 5 as early as Season 3. There are episodes that are standalone pieces of amusement (take Xander and the 'all women love me' episode for example) or those that tackle more serious aspects of life such as the rather sombre The Body. There are episodes the pushed the boundaries of normal US TV viewing such as the musical Once More With Feeling, the silent Hush and the surreal Restless, all episodes that I will recommend to friends to check out to show that there is more to Buffy than initially perceived.

I found the DVDs to be absolute quality, Season 4 onwards are presented in widescreen which is a bit of a treat. Its also the first time that I've actually wanted to sit down and watch through a commentry, Joss Whedon expanding on the excellent episodes of Hush and Restless for example. There aren't as MANY features as I was expecting and there appears to be a surprising lack of Sarah Michelle-Gellar from the mini docus that punctuate the various boxsets. In defence of this, its a joy to hear Joss expand on the creation of the series where you find he approached Buffy from the mind of a film-maker. Hence the absolute quality of visuals, something you take for granted when you're used to mega-epics like Lord Of The Rings. Perhaps we assume too much that when it comes to TV, everyone has the time and budget to knock up something as impressive as this.

All in all, its a top box set. Something you will, and I have, watch over and over again. The characters are absolutely wonderful and have now become popular culture icons, Buffy will become a piece of history so you should really make sure you own it.

The Legacy Of Buffy
It's here! The complete collection of Buffy The Vampire Slayer in a compact and easy to manage boxed set. I have always been a big fan, unfortunally keeping up with the show on television proved difficult. Episodes were cancelled, missed, failed to tape, etc. Therefore I jumped at the chance to own the entire saga.

The seventh and final season was my personal fravourite. I enjoyed watching years worth of stories and ideas come together [...]Having now purchased the boxed set. I have stared to watch them all from the very beginning. It has been so long since I had seen the first season and I had forgot how young looking the actors were when they started out in Buffy.

There are some good special features in the collection. I personally would have liked and expected more, but I guess you can't get everything you want. Generally there is nothing I can fault about Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Only that it ended when it did. Joss Whedon has created something that will have a legacy and a following for generations to come. If you are a fan in any measure then this is well worth the investisment as it promises to give you years of enjoyment.