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Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Collector's Set (40 discs)
Director: Joss Whedon
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Head, and James Marsters
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Retail Price (not our price): $199.98
Release Date: 2006-08-01
Theatrical Release Date: 1997-03-10
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Format: Array
Format: Box set, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Discs: 40


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
From its charming and angst-ridden first season to the darker, apocalyptic final one, Buffy the Vampire Slayer succeeds on many levels, and in a fresher and more authentic way than the shows that came before or after it. How lucky, then, that with the release of its boxed set of seasons 1-7, you can have the estimable pleasure of watching a near-decade of Buffy in any order you choose. (And we have some ideas about how that should be done.) First: rest assured that there's no shame in coming to Buffy late, even if you initially turned your nose up at the winsome Sarah Michelle Gellar kicking the hell out of vampires (in Buffy-lingo, vamps), demons, and other evil-doers. Perhaps you did so because, well, it looked sort of science-fiction-like with all that monster latex. Start with season 3 and see that Buffy offers something for everyone, and the sooner you succumb to it, the quicker you'll appreciate how textured and riveting a drama it is. Why season 3? Because it offers you a winning cast of characters who have fallen from innocence: their hearts have been broken, their egos trampled in typically vicious high-school style, and as a result, they've begun to realize how fallible they are. As much as they try, there are always more monsters, or a bigger evil. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the core crew remains something of a unit--there's the smart girl, Willow (Alyson Hannigan) who dreams of saving the day by downloading the plans to City Hall's sewer tunnels and mapping a route to safety. There are the ne'r do wells--the vampire Spike (James Marsters), who both clashes with and aspires to love Buffy; the tortured and torturing Angel (David Boreanz); the pretty, popular girl with an empty heart (Charisma Carpenter); and the teenage everyman, Xander (Nicholas Brendon). Then there's Buffy herself, who in the course of seven seasons morphs from a sarcastic teenager in a minidress to a heroine whose tragic flaw is an abiding desire to be a "normal" girl. On a lesser note, with the boxed set you can watch the fashion transformation of Buffy from mall rat to Prada-wearing, kickboxing diva with enviable highlights. (There was the unfortunate bob of season 2, but it's a forgivable lapse.) At least the storyline merits the transformations: every time Buffy has to end a relationship she cuts her hair, shedding both the pain and her vulnerability. In addition to the well-wrought teenage emotional landscape, Buffy deftly takes on more universal themes--power, politics, death, morality--as the series matures in seasons 4-6. And apart from a few missteps that haven't aged particularly well ("I Robot" in season 1 comes to mind), most episodes feel as harrowing and as richly drawn as they did at first viewing. That's about as much as you can ask for any form of entertainment: that it offer an escape from the viewer's workaday world and entry into one in which the heroine (ideally one with leather pants) overcomes demons far more troubling than one's own. --Megan Halverson

2) Description
*Seasons 1-7 on each disc Bonus Disc: **Introduction by Joss Whedon **Back to the Hellmouth: A Conversation with Creators and Cast **Breaking Barriers: It's Not a Chick Fight Thing **Love Bites: Relationships in the Buffyverse **Evil Fiends **Buffy: An Unlikely Role Model **Buffy Cast and Crew: Favorite Episodes

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) No RCE   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Highly recommend if you don't already own buffy seasons 1 -7. Takes up little space (far, far less than previous boxes) - packaging is tasteful. Best thing for me (being an overseas buyer) is that the price was amazing - was selling for more than $300 in NZ and around $40 per season - so this was a steal! And another good thing was it didn't have RCE and plays perfectly. Very happy with the extras - but as discussed in previous reviews - it's not that different from the extras in the previous box seasons. Great collectors edition for a fantastic show! A+++

2) Excellent pack!!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This pack is great. Buffy is one of my favorite shows and it was so much more affordable to buy it this way than individual seasons. I'm from Australia and it was actually cheaper to get this sent over from the states than to buy it here!! Anyways anyone who love action, quick wit and drama all in one pack, they would love this!!

3) Buffy Rules!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Collector's Set is just AWESOME!!! A must have for a Buffy fan.

4) LOVE IT!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
LOVE IT. Very good buy. My husband and I watch some every day since we got it. A couple of the disks have weird stalls in them, little glitches, but they continue to play just fine. So sorry Buffy ended. Great show and very fun to watch again.

5) My favorite show   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
this is the best show ever! this and the angel collector's set has to be the most precious thing i own. i treat them as a baby, i love them so. the quality is excellent as well as the show. the price is great and i would reccomend it to anyone.