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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine Issue 71, April 2005.

Tasty Tit-bits

1) Seth Green (Oz) walks pat the Magic Shop in a scene from "Restless"
2) "Primeval" was originally intended to be the final episode for Season Four
3) Amarra means 'Eternal', so the 'Gem of Amarra' actually traslates to 'The Gem of Eternity'
4) If Angel had continued to a sixth season, Oz may have returned as a recurring character
5) Giles plays a piece of music called 'Danse Macabre' during his projected lecture in "Hush". This musici salso the theme song for the TV show Jonathon Creek, and by strange co-incidence, Anthony Stewart Head played wizard Adam Krauss in the first episode of the series.
6) When Faith (as Buffy) is booking her plane ticket in Season Four's "Who are You" she gives the expiry date for the credit card as 05/01. Was she forshadowing Buffy's death in "The Gift", which was first aired in May, 2001?

Thats all folks!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Mag., Issue 71, April 2005.

11) If it hadn't been for age restrictions for the actors working irregular hours, another actress might've been cast as Buffy ahead of Sarah Michelle Gellar. "The only other person, for me, who was a contender for Buffy that I had to eliminate immediately was Katie (Dawson's Creek) Holmes," notes Buffy casting director, Marcia Shulman. "[But] because of the night shoots and length of hours [and because] Katie was not yet 18....I couldn't put her up for the part."

Katie went on to star alongside Marc Blucas in the film First Daughter. It's a bit like Season Four might've been, only set in the White House.

12) The distrucition of the orginal Sunnydale High School for "Graduation Day, Part Two" didn't win the Buffy crew any friends. Sound and vibrations from the explostions, filmed at Torrance High School, California, woke up the many residents and set off car alarms, causing locals to ban and further Buffy episodes from filming there. Producer Garth Davis revealed: "Unfortunately, when we warned [the resedents of Torrance] we were going to blow it up, we neglected to say when, and when it went up at 5am in the morning...Torrance is still upset with us actually." The crew where eventually allowed to return nearly three years later. "We've already heard of one phone call from irate lady saying 'You should be punished for what you did three years ago,'" Gareth noted at the time.

13) You knew that writers/producers Marti Noxon and David Fury have both made cameo appearances in episodes of Buffy singing in "Once More, With Feeling" and "Selfless", but did you know that Jane Espenson briefly appears a sa lunch lady in "Brand Candy" and Andy Hallett (Lorne from Angel) can be seen sitting at teh back of the UC Sunnydale lecture hall in a scene from "Hush"? Joss Whedon's only Buffy cameos are as the radio announcer in "I robot, Jane" and overdubbing Angel's heavy breathing druing the sex scene flashback in "Innocence". He was too embarress to ask David Boreanaz to do it!

14) Angel, Lyle and Tector Gorch and Pike (from the Buffy movie) are all named after characters from the classic Sam Peckinpah film "The Wild Bunch" - a favourite of Joss Whedon's and while it wasn't the inspiration for the characters name, did you know that the late, lamented Queen Mother was affectionately known as Buffy?

15) Everyone knows that Buffy's address it 1630 Revello Drive, but Giles address was only revealed reciently, when Fox auctioned off his $10,000 cheque to Buffy in "Life Serial". The address on that is 3441, Oakhurst Lane, Sunnydale, California. Although you cannot see all of Giles zip code on the cheque it starts 500, which contradicts the Sunnydale Zip code 95037 seen on Buffy's college rejection letter in "As You Were". Mind you that claims she lives at 1630 Crestview! Giles banks at the City Trust & Savings Bank on the corner of Third and Main, by the way.

From Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine Issue 71, April 2005.

1) Despite the cast and crew's dedication to perfection, the 144 episodes of Buffy have plenty of goofs....lapses in visual continuity, contraditions with earlier mythology and more. The first recorded 'Goof' occures in the opening scene of "Welcome to the Hellmouth". The top button of Darla's blouse is initally undone, but when she puts on her game face, it's magically done up. The last Goof appears in "Chosen". When Sunnydale collapeses into the crater, there's no sign of the sea, despite it being firmly established as a coastal town. However it is possible that the Scoobies escaped inland, and the Ocean side of the town just isn't visable.

2) Alyson Hannigan is allegic to plaster dust, which caused problems durning the filming of "The Body". When Xander punches his hand through the wall after Joyce's death, Alyson's right eye and face swelled up and she had to be taken to hospital. The crew still had to complete the scene before Aly left the set, and if you look carefully only one side of her face is shot throughout that scene.

3) Tara gives Giles a little rubber monster as a leaving present in "Bargaining" and says "Grr, argh" - clearly a reference to the monster in the Mutant Enemy logo. The Mutant Enemy monster was drawn by Joss, who also supplied the voice. The logo has been altered specially for various episodes: In "Amends", the monster wears a Father Christmas hat; in "Becoming, Part Two" the monster says "I need a hug"; In "Graduation Day, Part Two", he wears a graduation cap; In "Once More, With Feeling" he sings his "Grr....Argh; and in "Storyteller" he says, "We are Gods". The name Mutant Enemy is a lyric from the song "And Your and I", by Prog Rock ledends Yes. It's on their album "Close to the Edge".

4) The most popular first-run episode of Buffy on American TV was "Innocence", which receiveda Nielsen rating of 5.2, or 5,096,000 American households. Least popular was "Puppet Show", with a Nielsen rating of 1.9, or 1,843,000 households, Buffy's highest chart position on American TV was 62nd place out of all Prime Time shows, for Season Fives's "Real Me".

5) Joss Whedon's original plans for bringing the character of Tara back involved Buffy being given the chance to play a mystical 'get out of jail free' card - "One completely reality-altering thing that she could have - she could bring Angel back to her, she could do anything she wanted", noted Joss at a convention appearance. "At the end of the episode seh basically comes to Willow and says "Look at these shoes I got!", and Willow is like "What?" "I got these really awesome shoes. I wanted them and now I have them!" and Willow's like "You...Used...the wish...for shoes?" and Buffy says "Of course not, you idiot," and walks out of the room and Willow turns around and Tara's standing behind her.

More later!