Buffy the Vampire Slayer
It's from 1997, before you were born.
- Network
- The WB
- Genre
- Supernatural drama
- Creator
- Joss Whedon
- Premiered
- 1997
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About
As of 2026, it's 29 years old.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer took a goofy-sounding premise — a teenage girl is destined to slay vampires — and turned it into a witty, genre-defining drama where high school was literally built on a Hellmouth, because adolescence is hell. The monsters were always a metaphor, and a very good one.
Its snappy dialogue, emotional gut-punches, and refusal to keep anyone safe built a fiercely devoted fanbase and influenced basically every smart genre show that followed.
Clever, heartfelt, and quietly revolutionary, Buffy is the show that proved a slayer in a graveyard could carry more wit and feeling than most 'serious' dramas.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer season by season
Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran for 7 seasons (1997–2002) across 144 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
