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Sarah Michelle Gellar - Buffy Summers

Nicholas Brendon - Xander Harris

Charisma Carpenter - Cordelia Chase

Anthony Head - Rupert Giles

Julie Benz  - Darla

Nicole Bilderback  - Cordette

Mercedes McNab  - Harmony Kendall

Riff Regan  - Willow Rosenberg

Danny Strong  - Jonathan Levinson

Stephen Tobolowsky  - Principal Flutie

This presentation episode pretty much has the same storyline and dialogue as in the actual aired pilot but with a few different scenes, specifically in the finale.

In this story, Willow is lured by a vampire (as in the aired version) into a trap at the school where Buffy shows up with Xander and kills all the vamps except one who goes and reports to The Master that there is a Slayer in town.

In the original script, Angel appeared as a mysterious background character who helps Buffy in the finale and although David Boreanaz had already been cast to play Angel, he did not appear in the filmed episode.

All of the scenes in this episode are remade in the episodes "Welcome to the Hellmouth" and "The Harvest " however many of the sets are different including the library, the bronze and the school. The High school isn't called "Sunnydale High School" its called "Berryman High School"

Darla is dusted by Willow in this pilot.

A different actress plays Willow in this Pilot however the character is basically the same.

This episode lasts 30 minutes.

One scene shows Xander and Buffy walking through the schoolyard while he points out all the different groups of students. It looks very familiar to an early scene in the movie 10 Things I Hate About You

There was no background music at all during any of the fighting scenes. But in every other episode they always have background music during those scenes.

Harmony says the band playing at the Bronze is 'Dingoes Ate My Baby'. This is Oz's band who are introduced in the season 2 episode 'Inca Mummy Girl'.

Bianca Lawson was signed on to play Cordelia. She left the role for a starring role on the UPN series Goode Behavior. She would later return as Kendra and started a string of WB guest appearances.

Vampires do not dust instantly in this episode. They gradually become fine dust.