Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5039036001007
Format: Box set, PAL, Special Edition
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: November 15, 1999
Running Time: 520 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 1997

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Editorial Review:

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




Rating: - 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!

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Rating: - 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 ... Read More

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Rating: - Where it all began...
In the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer we see a show with plenty of original ideas that hasn't yet really hit its stride. The season explores creator Joss Whedon's original premise for the series: the blonde girl who is usually the helpless victim in horror movies is given the power to fight back. Unlike in later seasons, however, these episodes lack a linking story. The central villain, the Master, is kept largely in the background between the first two episodes and the last (with the exception ... Read More

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Rating: - "The music of pain." (or at least adolescence)
For a first time screenwriter, Joss Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was a good effort for a feature film. I thought for sure the series was going to tank. When I started watching halfway through the first season, I quickly found that I was wrong. "Buffy" simply blossoms on television. I've been hooked ever since.

For the first time, Whedon has provided us with all the terrors of high school in a horror genre setting. Not only that, but he provides a confident, cool FEMALE character to trounce ... Read More

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Rating: - The Best Debut Season Ever
Starting off as a very poor film at the Box Office, Joss Weadon (or the people at Fox) rather decided decided to turn it into a series by creating 12 great, phenomanal episodes. Not really knowing what was going to happen, they set it onto the world like the vampires of the night and all of a sudden, Buffy turned into an overnight success that had audiences hooked from the very beginning.

Every episode of this wonderful First Season has been restored and put onto a wonderful DVD box set that is well ... Read More

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