Restless (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as one of the best episodes of the series. In the series, Buffy Summers is a teenager who, at the age of fifteen, was chosen by mystical forces to be the latest "Slayer", a girl endowed with superhuman powers to fight and defeat vampires, demons, and other evil forces. After moving with her mother, Joyce (Kristine Sutherland), to the fictional town of Sunnydale, she befriends Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon), who join her in the struggle against evil. They are guided by Buffy's "Watcher", Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head), who is well-versed in demonology and is
Undeveloped Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoffs in the series "Tru Calling". Ideas intended for the spin-off were later borrowed in small part by Brian K. Vaughan for his "No Future for You" arc in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight". "Ripper" was originally a proposed television show based upon the character of Rupert Giles from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (created by Joss Whedon). More recent information has suggested that if "Ripper" were ever made it would be a TV-movie or a DVD-movie. Giles, played by British actor Anthony Stewart Head, was nicknamed 'Ripper' while he was dabbling in the occult during his rebellious youth. Whedon said