"Buffy vs. Dracula" is the season premiere of the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and is the seventy-ninth episode altogether. It was written by Marti Noxon and directed by David Solomon. It originally broadcast on September 26, 2000. Buffy faces the infamous Count Dracula, who had come to Sunnydale to meet her and make her one of his brides.