Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Bargaining (1)

Buffy's friends try to cope with Buffy's death and are left to defend Sunnydale without her. Meanwhile a gang of marauding demons threaten to jeopardize their plan to bring the slayer back from the dead. To complicate matters, Giles contemplates leaving Sunnydale to come to terms with the loss.

Episode Info

Episode number: 6x1
Production Number: 6ABB01
Airdate: Tuesday October 02nd, 2001

Director: David Grossman
Writer: Marti Noxon

Currently 8.9/10

8.9/10 (7 Votes cast)

Special Guest Stars

Anthony Stewart Head
As Rupert Giles

Recurring

Guest Stars

Franc Ross
As Razor

Recurring

Amber Benson (1)
As Tara

Recurring

Co-Guest Stars

Geoff Meed As Mag Recurring	Mike Grief As Klyed
Paul Greenberg (1) As Shempy Vamp	Joy DeMichelle Moore As Ms. Lefcourt
Bru Muller As Teacher	Robert D. Vito As Cute Boy
Harry Johnson (1) As Parent #1	Kelly Lynn Warren As Parent #2
Hila Levy As Pretty Girl	Richard Wharton As Homeowner

Main Cast

Sarah Michelle Gellar As Buffy Anne Summers	Nicholas Brendon As Alexander "Xander" Harris
Alyson Hannigan As Willow Rosenberg	James Marsters As Spike
Emma Caulfield As Anya Jenkins	Michelle Trachtenberg As Dawn Summers

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Episode Notes

This was the first episode to air on UPN. Over the summer, UPN launched a huge promotion campaign using the phrase "Buffy Lives!" in it's advertisements.

This episode scored a 6.2/9 in the ratings.

This episode ranked 2nd out of 9 UPN shows for the week.

UPN aired both episodes of Bargaining as a 2 Hour Network Series Premiere event for its original broadcast.

As of this episode, Anthony Stewart Head is no longer featured in the opening credits.

As of this episode, Alyson Hannigan now gets the coveted "and" slot at the end of the opening credits.

This was the first time two new Buffy episodes aired on the same night as a 2 hour event, since the pilot episode in March of 1997.

Ranked 78 out of 135 prime time shows.

Sarah Michelle Gellar appears in this episode continiously as Buffy-Bot, but Buffy Summers is not actually in this episode until the very end, as we watch her morph from her corpse back to living Buffy.