Nightmares
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Production number: 4V10
Original US air date: 19/5/97
Written by: Joss Whedon (story), David Greenwalt (teleplay)
Directed by: Bruce Seth Green

Guest stars:

Mark Metcalf: The Master
Kristine Sutherland: Joyce Summers
Jeremy Foley: Billy Palmer
Andrew J Ferchland: The Annointed One

Synopsis:

Buffy and friends begin to experience real-life nightmares at school; Buffy has a disastrous history test, Xander wanders into class in his boxers, Willow is dragged on stage to sing opera, and Cordelia's hair is less than perfect. Buffy spots a young lad, Billy, wandering around - it emerges that this is his astral form, he is actually in a coma after being attacked after a little league game and is making nightmares flesh. Most potent of all is the brutish 'ugly-man' who Buffy defeats only after becoming a vampire. After Billy wakes up his little league coach is arrested for the attack.
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Review:

A heck of a lot happens in this episode. A scene between Buffy and her father, where he earnestly describes his dissapointment in her is particularily well written and performed.



Points of interest:

Buffy's tombstone bears the legend 1981-1997, contradicting the info in previous episode ' I Robot, You Jane'

Vampire Deaths: 0

Total Deaths: 0