The Dark Age (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode)

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"The Dark Age"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 8
Directed by	Bruce Seth Green
Written by	Dean Batali Rob Des Hotel
Production code	5V08
Original air date	November 10, 1997
Guest actors
Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar Robin Sachs as Ethan Rayne Stuart McLean as Philip Henry Wendy Way as Diedre Page Michael Earl Reid as Custodian Daniel Henry Murray as Creepy Cult Guy Carlease Burke as Detective Winslow Tony Sears as Morgue Attendant John Bellucci as Man
Episode chronology
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List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes

"The Dark Age" is episode eight of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode was written by Executive Story Editors Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali and was directed by Bruce Seth Green. The narrative follows Giles, whose friend has died, prompting the Scooby Gang to unravel his mysterious past; meanwhile, Buffy crashes into Ethan Rayne again.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Reception 3 Arc significance 4 References 5 External links

Plot

Reception

Arc significance

References

External links

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Canon • Index • Joss Whedon
Series	Film • Television • (Episodes • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7) • Comics (Season Eight • Season Nine) • Buffyverse canon
Main characters	Buffy • Willow • Xander • Cordelia • Giles • Angel • Spike • Oz • Anya • Tara • Dawn • Riley
Major villains	The Master • Drusilla • Angelus • The Mayor • Adam • Glory • The Trio • Dark Willow • The First
Spin-offs	Angel • Fray • Tales of the Slayers • Tales of the Vampires • Buffy the Animated Series
Expanded universe	Novels • Undeveloped productions • Video games
Auxiliary	Academia • CCG • DVDs • Guidebooks • In popular culture • Magazines • Music • RPGs
Universe	Big Bads • Hellmouth • Main characters • Minor characters • Monsters • • Scooby Gang • Sunnydale • Vampire

Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes
Season 1	"Welcome to the Hellmouth" • "The Harvest" • "Witch" • "Teacher's Pet" • "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date" • "The Pack" • "Angel" • "I, Robot... You, Jane" • "The Puppet Show" • "Nightmares" • "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" • "Prophecy Girl"
Season 2	"When She Was Bad" • "Some Assembly Required" • "School Hard" • "Inca Mummy Girl" • "Reptile Boy" • "Halloween" • "Lie to Me" • "The Dark Age" • "What's My Line, Parts One and Two" • "Ted" • Bad Eggs" • "Surprise" • "Innocence" • "Phases" • "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" • "Passion" • "Killed by Death" • "I Only Have Eyes for You" • "Go Fish" "Becoming, Parts One and Two"
Season 3	"Anne" • "Dead Man's Party" • "Faith, Hope & Trick" • "Beauty and the Beasts" • "Homecoming" • "Band Candy" • "Revelations" • "Lovers Walk" • "The Wish" • "Amends" "Gingerbread" • "Helpless" • "The Zeppo" • "Bad Girls" • "Consequences" • "Doppelgangland" • "Enemies" • "Earshot" • "Choices" • "The Prom" • "Graduation Day, Parts One and Two"
Season 4	"The Freshman" • "Living Conditions" • "The Harsh Light of Day" • "Fear, Itself" • "Beer Bad" • "Wild at Heart" • "The Initiative" • "Pangs" • "Something Blue" • "Hush" "Doomed" • "A New Man" • "The I in Team" • "Goodbye Iowa" • "This Year's Girl" • "Who Are You" • "Superstar" • "Where the Wild Things Are" • "New Moon Rising" • "The Yoko Factor" "Primeval" • "Restless"
Season 5	"Buffy vs. Dracula" • "Real Me" • "The Replacement" • "Out of My Mind" • "No Place Like Home" • "Family" • "Fool for Love" • "Shadow" • "Listening to Fear" • "Into the Woods" • "Triangle" • "Checkpoint" • "Blood Ties" • "Crush" • "I Was Made to Love You" • "The Body" "Forever" • "Intervention" • "Tough Love" • "Spiral" • "The Weight of the World" • "The Gift"
Season 6	"Bargaining, Parts One and Two" • "After Life" • "Flooded" • "Life Serial" • "All the Way" • "Once More, with Feeling" • "Tabula Rasa" • "Smashed" • "Wrecked (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode)Wrecked" • "Gone" • "Doublemeat Palace" • "Dead Things" • "Older and Far Away" • "As You Were" • "Hell's Bells" • "Normal Again" • "Entropy" • "Seeing Red" • "Villains" • "Two to Go" • "Grave"
Season 7	"Lessons" • "Beneath You" • "Same Time, Same Place" • "Help" • "Selfless" • "Him" • "Conversations with Dead People" • "Sleeper" • "Never Leave Me" • "Bring on the Night" • "Showtime" • "Potential" • "The Killer in Me" • "First Date" • "Get It Done" • "Storyteller" • "Lies My Parents Told Me" • "Dirty Girls" • "Empty Places" • "Touched" • "End of Days" • "Chosen"