Innocence (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode)

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"Innocence"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 14
Directed by	Joss Whedon
Written by	Joss Whedon
Production code	5V14
Original air date	January 20, 1998
Guest actors
Seth Green as Oz Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar James Marsters as Spike Juliet Landau as Drusilla Brian Thompson as The Judge Ryan Francis as Soldier Vincent Schiavelli as Uncle Enios James Lurie as Mr. Miller Carla Madden as Woman Parry Shen as Student
Episode chronology
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List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes

"Innocence" is episode 14 of season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This is renowned not only as one of the most critically acclaimed episodes, but also has the distinction of being the highest rated episode in the series' history, attracting 8.2 million viewers as the series moved from its Monday timeslot to Tuesday.

Contents 1 Plot synopsis 2 Writing 2.1 Arc significance 2.2 Continuity 3 Broadcast and reception 4 References 5 External links

Plot synopsis

Writing

Arc significance

Continuity

Broadcast and reception

References

External links

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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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"