List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer writers

This is a list of writers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer sorted by the number of episodes they wrote.

27 Episodes

Joss Whedon (Creator)

• Season One
  • Episode 1: "Welcome to the Hellmouth"
  • Episode 2: "The Harvest"
  • Episode 10: "Nightmares" - Story
  • Episode 11: "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" - Story
  • Episode 12: "Prophecy Girl"
• Season Two
  • Episode 1: "When She Was Bad"
  • Episode 3: "School Hard" - Story with David Greenwalt
  • Episode 7: "Lie to Me"
  • Episode 11: "Ted" - with David Greenwalt
  • Episode 14: "Innocence"
  • Episode 21: "Becoming: Part 1"
  • Episode 22: "Becoming: Part 2"
• Season Three
  • Episode 1: "Anne"
  • Episode 10: "Amends"
  • Episode 16: "Doppelgangland"
  • Episode 21: "Graduation Day: Part 1"
  • Episode 22: "Graduation Day: Part 2"
• Season Four
  • Episode 1: "The Freshman"
  • Episode 10: "Hush"
  • Episode 16: "Who Are You"
  • Episode 22: "Restless"
• Season Five
  • Episode 6: "Family"
  • Episode 16: "The Body"
  • Episode 22: "The Gift"
• Season Six
  • Episode 7: "Once More, with Feeling"
• Season Seven
  • Episode 1: "Lessons"
  • Episode 22: "Chosen"

23 Episodes

Marti Noxon

• Season Two
  • Episode 9: "What's My Line: Part 1" - with Howard Gordon
  • Episode 10: "What's My Line: Part 2"
  • Episode 12: "Bad Eggs"
  • Episode 13: "Surprise"
  • Episode 16: "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
  • Episode 19: "I Only Have Eyes for You"
• Season Three
  • Episode 2: "Dead Man's Party"
  • Episode 4: "Beauty and the Beasts"
  • Episode 9: "The Wish"
  • Episode 15: "Consequences"
  • Episode 20: "The Prom"
• Season Four
  • Episode 2: "Living Conditions"
  • Episode 6: "Wild at Heart"
  • Episode 11: "DoomEd" - with David Fury and Jane Espenson
  • Episode 14: "Goodbye Iowa"
  • Episode 19: "New Moon Rising"
• Season Five
  • Episode 1: "Buffy vs. Dracula"
  • Episode 10: "Into the Woods"
  • Episode 17: "Forever"
• Season Six
  • Episode 1: "Bargaining: Part 1"
  • Episode 10: "Wrecked"
  • Episode 20: "Villains"
• Season Seven
  • Episode 10: "Bring on the Night" - with Douglas Petrie

Jane Espenson

• Season Three
  • Episode 6: "Band Candy"
  • Episode 11: "Gingerbread" - Story with Thania St. John; Teleplay
  • Episode 18: "Earshot"
• Season Four
  • Episode 3: "The Harsh Light of Day"
  • Episode 8: "Pangs"
  • Episode 11: "Doomed" - with Marti Noxon and David Fury
  • Episode 12: "A New Man"
  • Episode 17: "Superstar"
• Season Five
  • Episode 3: "The Replacement"
  • Episode 11: "Triangle"
  • Episode 12: "Checkpoint" - with Douglas Petrie
  • Episode 15: "I Was Made to Love You"
  • Episode 18: "Intervention"
• Season Six
  • Episode 3: "After Life"
  • Episode 4: "Flooded" - with Douglas Petrie
  • Episode 5: "Life Serial" - with David Fury
  • Episode 12: "Doublemeat Palace"
• Season Seven
  • Episode 3: "Same Time, Same Place"
  • Episode 7: "Conversations with Dead People" - with Drew Goddard
  • Episode 8: "Sleeper" - with David Fury
  • Episode 14: "First Date"
  • Episode 16: "Storyteller"
  • Episode 21: "End of Days" - with Douglas Petrie

17 Episodes

David Fury

• Season Two
  • Episode 20: "Go Fish" - with Elin Hampton
• Season Three
  • Episode 12: "Helpless"
  • Episode 19: "Choices"
• Season Four
  • Episode 4: "Fear, Itself"
  • Episode 11: "Doomed" - with Marti Noxon and Jane Espenson
  • Episode 13: "The I in Team"
  • Episode 21: "Primeval"
• Season Five
  • Episode 2: "Real Me"
  • Episode 8: "Shadow"
  • Episode 14: "Crush"
• Season Six
  • Episode 2: "Bargaining: Part 2"
  • Episode 5: "Life Serial" - with Jane Espenson
  • Episode 11: "Gone"
  • Episode 22: "Grave"
• Season Seven
  • Episode 8: "Sleeper" - with Jane Espenson
  • Episode 11: "Showtime"
  • Episode 17: "Lies My Parents Told Me" - with Drew Goddard

Douglas Petrie

• Season Three
  • Episode 7: "Revelations"
  • Episode 14: "Bad Girls"
  • Episode 17: "Enemies"
• Season Four
  • Episode 7: "The Initiative"
  • Episode 15: "This Year's Girl"
  • Episode 20: "The Yoko Factor"
• Season Five
  • Episode 5: "No Place Like Home"
  • Episode 7: "Fool for Love"
  • Episode 12: "Checkpoint" - with Jane Espenson
  • Episode 21: "The Weight of the World"
• Season Six
  • Episode 4: "Flooded" - with Jane Espenson
  • Episode 15: "As You Were"
  • Episode 22: "Two to Go"
• Season Seven
  • Episode 2: "Beneath You"
  • Episode 10: "Bring on the Night" - with Marti Nixon
  • Episode 15: "Get It Done"
  • Episode 21: "End of Days" - with Jane Espenson

8 Episodes

David Greenwalt

• Season One
  • Episode 4: "Teacher's Pet"
  • Episode 7: "Angel"
  • Episode 10: "Nightmares" - Teleplay
• Season Two
  • Episode 3: "School Hard" - Story with Joss Whedon; Teleplay
  • Episode 5: "Reptile Boy"
  • Episode 11: "Ted" - with Joss Whedon
• Season Three
  • Episode 3: "Faith, Hope & Trick"
  • Episode 5: "Homecoming"

Rebecca Rand Kirshner

• Season Five
  • Episode 4: "Out of My Mind"
  • Episode 9: "Listening to Fear"
  • Episode 19: "Tough Love"
• Season Six
  • Episode 8: "Tabula Rasa"
  • Episode 16: "Hell's BElls"
• Season Seven
  • Episode 4: "Help"
  • Episode 12: "Potential"
  • Episode 20: "Touched"

6 Episodes

Drew Z. Greenberg

• Season Six
  • Episode 9: "Smashed"
  • Episode 14: "Older and Far Away"
  • Episode 18: "Entropy"
• Season Seven
  • Episode 6: "Him"
  • Episode 13: "The Killer in Me"
  • Episode 19: "Empty Places"

5 Episodes

Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali

• Season One
  • Episode 5: "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date"
  • Episode 9: "The Puppet Show"
• Season Two
  • Episode 8: "The Dark Age"
  • Episode 15: "Phases"
  • Episode 18: "Killed by Death"

Steven S. DeKnight

• Season Five
  • Episode 13: "Blood Ties"
  • Episode 20: "Spiral"
• Season Six
  • Episode 6: "All the Way"
  • Episode 13: "Dead Things"
  • Episode 19: "Seeing Red"

Drew Goddard

• Season Seven
  • Episode 5: "Selfless"
  • Episode 7: "Conversations with Dead People" - with Jane Espenson
  • Episode 9: "Never Leave Me"
  • Episode 17: "Lies My Parents Told Me" - with David Fury
  • Episode 18: "Dirty Girls"

3 Episodes

Tracey Forbes

• Season Four
  • Episode 5: "Beer Bad"
  • Episode 9: "Something Blue"
  • Episode 18: "Where the Wild Things Are"

2 Episodes

Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkemeyer

• Season One
  • Episode 6: "The Pack"
• Season Two
  • Episode 4: "Inca Mummy Girl"

Ashley Gable & Thomas A. Swyden

• Season One
  • Episode 8: "I, Robot... You, Jane"
  • Episode 11: "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" - Teleplay

Ty King

• Season Two
  • Episode 2: "Some Assembly Required"
  • Episode 17: "Passion"

Dan Vebber

• Season Three
  • Episode 8: "Lovers Walk"
  • Episode 13: "The Zeppo"

1 Episode

Dana Reston

• Season One
  • Episode 3: "Witch"

Carl Ellsworth

• Season Two
  • Episode 6: "Halloween"

Howard Gordon

• Season Two
  • Episode 9: "What's My Line: Part 1" - with Marti Noxon

Elin Hampton

• Season Two
  • Episode 20: "Go Fish" - with David Fury

Thania St. John

• Season Three
  • Episode 11: "Gingerbread" - Story with Jane Espenson

Diego Gutierrez

• Season Six
  • Episode 17: "Normal Again"

See also

• List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes