It's been nearly 30 years since "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" staked its claim on television history. The show was a smash hit, made a pop-culture icon of fierce lead Sarah Michelle Gellar and turned the teen drama genre on its head with its nuanced, long-arc storytelling, formidable but flawed characters, and fang-sharp wit, all while kicking serious undead ass.
One of the best supernatural series of all time, "Buffy" ran for seven seasons on The WB and later UPN — a kind of redo for series creator Josh Whedon, who penned the campy 1992 film of the same name but to far less acclaimed effect. Along the way, it produced some of the medium's most iconic episodes, from season 4's near-silent "Hush" to the season 6 mini-musical "Once More, with Feeling."
