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===''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''=== After years in sitcoms, Espenson decided to switch from comedic to dramatic writing and submitted her sample scripts to ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.<ref>[http://cinema.usc.edu/podcasts/mp3/espenson.mp3 Jane Espenson], an April 2007 episode (in [[MP3]] format) of the [[USC School of Cinematic Arts]] podcast series</ref> In 1998, Espenson joined [[Mutant Enemy Productions]] as executive story editor for the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 3)|third season of ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'']]. Over the rest of the run of the series, Espenson wrote or co-wrote twenty-three episodes, starting with "[[Band Candy (Buffy episode)|Band Candy]]" and ending with ''Buffy''{{'}}s penultimate episode, "[[End of Days (Buffy episode)|End of Days]]". After her role as an executive story editor, she was promoted to co-producer in [[List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes#Season 4 (1999β2000)|season four]]. In the [[List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes#Season 5 (2000β2001)|fifth season]] she was promoted again to producer. She took up the role of supervising producer in the [[List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes#Season 6 (2001β2002)|sixth season]] and was promoted once more to co-executive producer in the [[List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes#Season 7 (2002β2003)|final season]]. She wrote episodes both humorous (e.g. "[[Triangle (Buffy episode)|Triangle]]" and "[[Intervention (Buffy episode)|Intervention]]") and serious (such as "[[After Life (Buffy episode)|After Life]]"). Espenson and [[Drew Goddard]] co-wrote the seventh-season episode "[[Conversations with Dead People (Buffy episode)|Conversations with Dead People]]," for which they won the [[Hugo Award]] for [[Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form|Best Short Dramatic Presentation]] in 2003.<ref>[http://www.worldcon.org/hy.html#03 The Hugo Awards By Year] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123160133/http://www.worldcon.org/hy.html |date=2011-01-23 }} from the [[Worldcon]] website</ref> Espenson is credited as the writer or co-writer of the following ''Buffy'' episodes: {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; margin-right:auto; margin-right:auto" ! Episode number ! Title ! Credit ! Original air date |- | 3.06 | "[[Band Candy]]" | Writer | November 10, 1998 |- | 3.11 | "[[Gingerbread (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Gingerbread]]" | Teleplay (<small>story by Espenson & [[Thania St. John]]</small>) | January 12, 1999 |- | 3.18 | "[[Earshot (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Earshot]]" | Writer | September 21, 1999 |- | 4.03 | "[[The Harsh Light of Day (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|The Harsh Light of Day]]" | Writer | October 19, 1999 |- | 4.08 | "[[Pangs]]" | Writer | November 23, 1999 |- | 4.11 | "[[Doomed (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Doomed]]" | Writer (<small>with [[David Fury]] & [[Marti Noxon]]</small>) | January 18, 2000 |- | 4.12 | "[[A New Man]]" | Writer | January 25, 2000 |- | 4.17 | "[[Superstar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Superstar]]" | Writer | April 4, 2000 |- | 5.03 | "[[The Replacement (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|The Replacement]]" | Writer | October 10, 2000 |- | 5.11 | "[[Triangle (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Triangle]]" | Writer | January 9, 2001 |- | 5.12 | "[[Checkpoint (Buffy episode)|Checkpoint]]" | Writer (<small>with [[Douglas Petrie]]</small>) | January 23, 2001 |- | 5.15 | "[[I Was Made to Love You]]" | Writer | February 20, 2001 |- | 5.18 | "[[Intervention (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Intervention]]" | Writer | April 24, 2001 |- | 6.03 | "[[After Life (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|After Life]]" | Writer | October 9, 2001 |- | 6.04 | "[[Flooded (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Flooded]]" | Writer (<small>with Douglas Petrie</small>) | October 16, 2001 |- | 6.05 | "[[Life Serial]]" | Writer (<small>with David Fury</small>) | October 23, 2001 |- | 6.12 | "[[Doublemeat Palace]]" | Writer | January 29, 2002 |- | 7.03 | "[[Same Time, Same Place]]" | Writer | October 8, 2002 |- | 7.07 | "[[Conversations with Dead People]]" | Writer (<small>with [[Drew Goddard]]</small>) | November 12, 2002 |- | 7.08 | "[[Sleeper (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Sleeper]]" | Writer (<small>with David Fury</small>) | November 19, 2002 |- | 7.14 | "[[First Date (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|First Date]]" | Writer | February 11, 2003 |- | 7.16 | "[[Storyteller (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Storyteller]]" | Writer | February 25, 2003 |- | 7.21 | "[[End of Days (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|End of Days]]" | Writer (<small>with Douglas Petrie</small>) | May 13, 2003 |- |} She also co-/wrote several comic book stories for [[Tales of the Slayers]], [[Tales of the Vampires]] and [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight]], the [[One-shot (comics)|one-shots]] [[Jonathan (Buffy comic)|Jonathan]] and [[Reunion (Buffy comic)|Reunion]] and the [[Limited series (comics)|limited series]] [[Haunted (Buffy comic)|Haunted]].
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