Episode 1
Buffy returns from summer vacation sporting an attitude and suffers from recurring nightmares involving the Master. Meanwhile, the Anointed One and his followers plot their revenge.
Episode 2
Two science club nerds use body parts to create the "perfect girlfriend" for a teenager who has been brought back from the dead.
Episode 3
Buffy's mother and friends become trapped inside Sunnydale High School when a vampire named Spike launches an attack against the Slayer on Parent-Teacher night.
Episode 4
An Incan Princess mummy is reanimated in Sunnydale where she sucks the life force from others in order to stay alive.
Episode 5
Buffy and Cordelia inadvertently attend a frat party hosted by a murderous cult.
Episode 6
On Halloween, Buffy and her friends patronize an unusual costume shop where customers turn into whatever costume they are wearing.
Episode 7
Buffy is lured into a trap by a group of undead wannabes who hope that Spike will make them vampires in exchange for giving him the Slayer.
Episode 8
Giles' past comes back to haunt him as a demon he and Ethan Rayne summoned in their wild youth seeks them out in Sunnydale.
Episode 9
Spike brings in three professional bounty hunters to eliminate Buffy while she ponders on what her profession might be if her fate wasn't already sealed.
Episode 10
Buffy joins forces with another Slayer in hopes of saving Angel from the clutches of Spike and Drusilla.
Episode 11
Buffy's mom introduces her new boyfriend, who charms everyone except Buffy. When she confronts his dark side, she is left questioning her actions.
Episode 12
Buffy and her friends are given eggs to take care of for a health class assignment, but aren't prepared for what hatches.
Episode 13
To give Buffy a surprise on her 17th birthday, Drusilla and Spike bring together the body parts of a dismembered demon who cannot be killed.
Episode 14
Buffy and her friends battle the Judge and face unexpected danger from Angel, who has lost his soul after experiencing a moment of true happiness.
Episode 15
Buffy and her friends discover secrets about themselves as they battle a werewolf, its hunter, and their own emotions.
Episode 16
As Valentine's Day approaches, Xander tries to improve his love life through witchcraft and finds himself with too much of a good thing.
Episode 17
Angel steps up his torment of Buffy and her friends as Jenny searches for a way to restore his soul.
Episode 18
While hospitalized with a severe case of the flu, Buffy investigates the young patients' fear that Death is stalking the children's ward.
Episode 19
Sunnydale High School is haunted by the ghosts of a former student and teacher who reenact their tragic romance through the bodies of the school's current inhabitants.
Episode 20
Members of the Sunnydale swim team are killed by a gill monster of unknown origins.
Episode 21
Angel plots to revive an ancient demon bent on sweeping everything on earth into hell itself.
Episode 22
Spike strikes an unlikely alliance with Buffy to keep Angel from destroying the world.