Buffy the Vampire Slayer Specials Episode 1 Unaired Pilot 2024
The non-broadcast pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was produced by 20th Century Fox in 1996 to pitch a series to networks. The twenty-five-and-a-half-minute production was written and directed by Buffy creator Joss Whedon, and was expanded upon and re-shot for the first episode of the series. It is notable for featuring a different actress in the role of Willow, Sunnydale High is Berryman High and a different actor as Principal Flutie. After having burned down her school gym and been expelled from a school in L.A., Buffy Summers has moved to Sunnydale with her mother. Buffy goes to school for the first time at Sunnydale High and meets new people: Cordelia, Willow, and Xander. Willow is lured by a vampire into a trap. Buffy shows up with Xander and kills all the vampires except one; the surviving vampire reports the incident back to The Master.
- Released:
- Runtime: 43 minutes
- Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure
- Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Emma Caulfield Ford, Michelle Trachtenberg
- Director: Drew Goddard, Drew Z. Greenberg, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, David Solomon, Denise Pleune
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2. Entertainment Weekly Cast Reunions 2017-03-29
