Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American supernatural drama television series. It premiered on March 10, 1997, on The WB and concluded on May 20, 2003, on UPN. The series, as well as its spin-off series, Angel, and extensions thereof, have been collectively termed the "Buffyverse" The series received critical and popular acclaim, and is often listed among the greatest television series of all time.
Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) is the "Slayer", one in a long line of young women chosen by fate to battle evil forces. This mystical calling grants her powers that dramatically increase physical strength, endurance, agility, accelerated healing, intuition, and a limited degree of precognition. She is known as a reluctant hero who wants to live a normal life. Buffy receives guidance from her Watcher, Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) and friends Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon)