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Index to Sarah Michelle Gellar's TV Appearances

BREAKING BEAR - 2026 - voice of Blair

Animated series follows a dysfunctional family of bears who begin selling drugs to raise money and save their home after gas companies start fracking next to their cave.

still from Breaking Bear

BREAKING BEAR can be streamed on TUBI.

BUFFY: NEW SUNNYDALE - 2026 - Buffy Summers

This sequel series to Buffy the Vampire Slayer was created by Lila and Nola Zuckerman. The unaired pilot was directed by Chloe Zhao. The show was cancelled by HULU.

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DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN - 2024 - Tanya Martin

Miami, 1991. When his bloodthirsty urges can't be ignored any longer, young Dexter Morgan must learn to channel his inner darkness as he transitions from student to avenging serial killer with the guidance of his father, Harry.

Sarah Michelle Gellar - Dexter: Original Sin

All ten episodes of "Dexter: Original Sin" can be streamed on Paramount+.

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WOLF PACK - 2023 - Kristin Ramsay

A teenage boy and girl get their lives changed forever when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature. As the full moon rises, they come together to unravel the secret that connects them.

Sarah Michelle Gellar - Wolf Pack

Wolf Pack can be purchased from Amazon Prime Video.

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: REVELATION - 2021 - Teela

In this animated series from writer/director Kevin Smith, the war for Eternia begins again in what may be the final battle between He-Man and Skeletor.

Teela - character voiced by Sarah Michelle Gellar in 'Masters of the Universe: Revelation'
Teela

Masters of the Universe: Revelation can be streamed on Netflix.

BIG BANG THEORY - 2019 - herself

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Kunal Nayyar - The Big Bang Theory

Episode 12.24 - air date 16 May 2019. "The Stockholm Syndrome" (series finale.

Gellar meets Raj on a plane to Stockholm and agrees to be his Plus One for the Nobel Prize award ceremony.

The Big Bang Theory can be streamed on HBO/max.

THOSE WHO CAN'T - 2016 - Gwen Stephanie

Sarah Michelle Gellalr in 'Those Who Can't'
Gellar as Gwen Stephanie

Season 1 Episode 4 - The Fairbell Tape - Airdate 25 February 2016

The episode was directed by Roger Kumble, who also directed the film "Cruel Intentions", and episode 20 of "Ringer".

When the PTA removes the vending machines, Shoemaker and Abbey go to extreme lengths to get them back; Loren faces off with his old teacher; Fairbell's sexual orientation is uncovered. Gwen (Gellar) is hell-bent on removing junk food from her children's school, and comes into conflict with the teaching staff on the issue.

All episodes of Those Who Can't are available on DVD.

STAR WARS REBELS = 2015 - The Seventh Sister

The Seventh Sister - Star Wars Rebels
The Seventh Sister

The Seventh Sister made her first appearance on 28 October 2015 in Season 2 Episode 4, which was titled "Always Two There Are". In that episode, Ezra, Sabine, Zeb and Chopper travel to an abandoned medical station. More detailed information is available on the Seventh Sister - Star Wars Rebels Wiki

The series can be streamed on Disney+.

THE CRAZY ONES - 2013 - Sydney Roberts

Sydney is a partner in a Chicago Ad Agency run by her father (Robin Williams). The pilot was directed by Jason Winer.

Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar in The Craziy Ones
Sydney Roberts and her father Simon

The Crazy Ones can be purchased from Amazon Prime Video.

AMERICAN DAD - 2011/2012 - Jenny / Phyllis

Episode #121 - "Virtual In-Stanity" - Phyllis - Air date: 20 November 2011

EPISODE 121 - Realizing he has missed every important event in his son Steve's life, Stan makes a desperate attempt to bond with Steve by creating a busty blonde bombshell of a robot avatar named Phyllis (Gellar). Alyson Hannigan (who was Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) voices the character Chelsea, who competes for Steve's affections with Phyllis.

Episode #140 - "Ad-Ventures in Haleysitting" - Jenny - Air date: 9 December 2012

Jenny - Adventures in Haleysiting - American Dad

The Smith's babysitter breaks her leg in a soccer match, so Stan and Francine are forced to employ Hayley in this capacity despite her record of being irresponsible. When Hayley teases Steve about being a goody-two-shoes, Steve is determined to prove her wrong and sneaks out of the house to go to a party. A meth head offers to buy the boys booze if they in turn buy him a lot of sudafed, and Jenny (Gellar) is the drugstore clerk who sells Steve 100 boxes of the drug. Later in the episode, Steve and the meth head go looking for the receipt on which Steve wrote his phone number earlier and surprise Jenny in her bedroom

American Dad can be streamed on HULU.

RINGER - 2011 - Bridget Kelly/Siobhan Martin

Created by Eric C. Charmelo and Nicole Snyder, "Ringer" is an hour-long CW drama series producted by Peter Traugott. The pilot was filmed in March 2011 in New York, and the rest of the show was shot in Los Angeles. Gellar portrayed twin sisters.

Sarah Michelle Gellar - Ringer

All episodes of Ringer can be purchased from Fandango at Home.

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ROBOT CHICKEN - 2005-2018 - various characters

Stop-motion animation and satire characterize this show created by Seth Green and Matt Senreich.

Gellar appeared in 15 episodes -- three as the voice of herself, and twelve as the voice of other characters. Those other characters have been: Betty Crocker, Becky, Sarah Connor, Blair Warner (from The Facts of Life), Big Bad Wolf's Wife, an unnamed Surgeon, Samara Morgan (loosely based on Sadako Yamamura from the original Japanese Ring series), Daphne Blake (of Scooby-Doo), Princess Allura, Jem, a cashier, and lioness.

  1. Nutcracker Sweet (27 February 2005) - Princess Allura - lioness
  2. Plastic Buffet (13 March 2005) - Herself - Buffy Summers
  3. Joint Point (5 June 2005) - Romance Woman
  4. Operation Rich in Spirit (26 June 2005) - Daphne Blake - Samara Morgan
  5. The Black Cherry (17 July 2005) - Herself
  6. 1987 (7 May 2006) - Surgeon
  7. Celebutard Mountain (7 October 2007) - Blair Warner - Becky - Big Bad Wolf's Wife
  8. Chirlaxx (5 October 2008) - Herself
  9. Love, Maurice (18 January 2009) - Sarah Connor
  10. Some Like It Hitman (13 November 2011) - Betty Crocker - Sarah Connor - waitress
  11. Punctured Jugular (30 September 2012) - Daphne Blake - Jem - cashier
  12. Secret of the Booze (27 April 2014) - Ellen Ripley - Sarah Connor
  13. Walking Dead Lobster (13 July 2014) - voice (unspecified)
  14. The Robot Chicken Lots of Holidays (But Don't Worry Christmas Is Still in There So Pull the Stick Out of Your Ass Fox News) Special (7 December 2014) - Bambi's Mother
  15. Scoot to the Glute (7 January 2018) - Daphne Blake - Bubbleisha

Robot Chicken can be streamed on HULU.

THE WONDERFUL MALADYS - 2009 - Alice Malady

Unsold pilot made for HBO. Filming commenced 11 May 2009 in New York City, with outside shots being filmed at 113th and Riverside on 13 May.

Sarah Michelle Gellar - The Wonderful Maladys
Gellar as Alice Malady

The story revolves around the lives of three adult siblings who lost their parents when they were young. Following their parents' death, Alice (Gellar) finds refuge in alcohol and aggressiveness. Mary, her sister from Swingtown, buries herself in her work as a therapist, while being unable to follow the advice she gives to her clients. Her brother Neil finds solace in non-coformity.

Nate Corddry (Neil) is also Jason in SUBURBAN GIRL. Anne Spano, the key makeup artist, was once makeup artist for "All My Children.

DR. HORRIBLE'S SING ALONG BLOG - Act 3 - 2008
- Girl in pink-rimmed glasses

Sarah Michelle Gellar - Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog

Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris) has a really bad couple of days fighting his nemesis, played by Nathan Fillion, who was also Caleb in five episodes of Buffy. Felicia Day (Penny) was also Violet in six episodes of Buffy season seven. Marti Noxon, who wrote 23 episodes of Buffy, appears as a newswoman.

Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog is available in various formats from Amazon.

THE SIMPSONS - 2004/2012 - Gina Vendetti

Episode #329 The Wandering Juvie - originally aired 28 March 2004

Bart invites everybody for a fake wedding and takes all the gifts so he can return them for store credit. Chief Wiggum sends Bart to jail, where he meets Gina Vendetti (voiced by Gellar). They escape together, and gradually, the two of them begin to understand one another.

Homer Simpson quote (from this episode):
"I believe the children are our future, unless we stop 'em now!"

The Wandering Juvie
The Wandering Juvie

In the 24th season premiere of THE SIMPSONS (epidsode #509, "Moonshine River" airdate 30 September 2012), Gellar reprised her role as Gina Vendetti, but she said only three words: "Eat this, jerk!" while punching Bart.

All episodes of The Simpsons can be streamed on Disney+.

GOD, THE DEVIL AND BOB - 2003 - That Actress on That Show

Episode 10. "There's Too Much Sex on TV". Original air date: 15 June 2003

BOB: What are you doing in a crappy place like this?
THAT ACTRESS: I love it here. I don't have to make my bed. It's right on the bus line, and there's a retractable clothesline in my shower.

That Actor on That TV Show - God, the Devil, and Bob

Allan Cumming is the voice of The Devil. James Garner is the voice of God. Frnch Stewart and Laurie Metcalf are Donna and Bob Allman. Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson) is Megan Allman.

There's Too Much Sex on TV can be streamed on YouTube.

MTV MOVIE AWARDS - 2002 - co-host

Gellar hosted the award show with Jack Black, and together they performed two skits.

The first was "Lord of the Piercing" with Gellar as Arwen. It was a spoof of "The Fellowship of the Ring" (specifically, the Council of Elrond scene) from the 2002 MTV Movie Awards. To find this video on the Region 1 Extended Edition DVD of The Fellowship of the Ring (LOTR) go to Disk 1, Chapter Selection. Scroll past the final chapter (The Council of Elrond), and a golden ring will appear.

Sarah Michelle Gellar - Jack Black - MTV
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jack Black

The second skit was "Jack Black: Spider-Man" with Gellar as both Mary Jane Watson and Wonder woman. Both used archive footage from the films.

GROSSE POINTE - 2001 - herself

"Passion Fish" (Episode 116), which originally aired 16 February 2001, is a satire focusing on the lives of five actors who star in a fictional high school drama called "Grosse Pointe".

The episode's title is an homage to the 1992 John Sayles film PASSION FISH, which dealt with a former soap opera star, Mary Alice Culhane, who is permanently confined to a wheelchair after a car accident.

Sarah Michelle Gellar - Grosse Pointe

Passion Fish can be streamed on YouTube.

SEX AND THE CITY - 2000 - Debbie

Gellar appears in "Escape from New York" - Season 3 Episode 13 - which first aired on 10 September 2000. Debbie (Gellar) asks Carrie to guess the film star who is interested in her movie. Carrie glancs to the left and then whispers “Matthew McConaughey”. That was dubbed in later. She actually says Warren Beatty's name because he was supposed to play the role.

Sarah Michelle Gellar as Debbie - Sex And The City 313
Debbie

Sex and the City can be streamed on Amazon Prime Video.

ANGEL (1999-2000) - Buffy Anne Summers

Buffy's former lover Angel moves to LA to work as a private detective specializing in the supernatural.

Gellar had three credited appearances on the show:

  • 101 - City of (1999)
  • 108 - I Will Remember You (1999)
  • 119 - Sanctuary (2000)

She appeared in archive Buffy footage in four other episodes:

  • 107 - The Bachelor Party (1999)
  • 501 - Conviction (2003)
  • 502 - Just Rewards (2003)
  • 510 - Soul Purpose (2004) (only back of head visible. archive audio)
Sarah Michelle Gellar in 'I Will Remember You' - episode 108 of Angel
from Angel episode 108

All 110 episodes of ANGEL can be streamed on TUBI.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - 1998-2002 - host

Gellar appeared in the following episodes:

  • - Season 23 Episode 11 - host - musical guest Portishead - 17 January 1998
  • - Season 24 Episode 19 - host - musical guests The Backstreet Boys - 15 May 1999
  • - Season 25 Episode 19 - cameo - musical guest Britney Spears - 13 May 2000
  • - Season 25 Episode 20 - cameo - hosts Jackie Chan and Kid Rock - 20 May 2000
  • - Season 28 Episode 2 - co- host with Faith Hill - 12 October 2002
Sarah Michelle Gellar - Saturday Night Live 2419
from episode 2419 of SNL

Her appearances are on two DVDs: Saturday Night Live 25 (1999), and
SNL25 - 25 Years of Laughs

DISNEY'S HERCULES - 1998 - Andromeda

Season 1 Episode 27 - Hercules and the Dream Date?

Thure Lindhardt, Diedrich Bader, Tate Donovan, and Sandra Bernhart, Jennifer Aniston, and Lisa Kudrow all voice characters in this episode. The information on Sarah Michelle Gellar's appearance in this episode comes entirely from the episode's IMDB page.

KING OF THE HILL - 1998 - voice of Marie

"And They Call It Bobby Love"

When Bobby begins dating Marie, who is somewhat older, Hank and Peggy are against the relationship for different reasons.

Alice and Bobby - King of the Hill episode 302
Alice and Bobby in 'And They Call It Bobby Love'

King of the Hill can be streamed on HULU.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - 1997-2003 - Buffy Anne Summers

First appearance on screen of Sarah Michele Gellar as  Buffy Summers - Buffy the Vampire Slayer 101
First on screen appearance of Buffy Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

145 episodes

More on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER can be streamed on HULU.

BEVERLY HILLS FAMILY ROBINSON - 1997 - Jane Robinson

Marsha Robinson (Dyan Cannon) takes her family on vacation to a Pacific island. Their yacht is hijacked by incompetent pirates who wreck the ship, stranding them on a deserted island.

"Beverly Hills Family Robinson" was filmed in Australia. Kevin Weisman (Brinx) was Dreg in three Season Five episodes of Buffy.

Beverly Hills Family Robinson - DVD cover

Beverly Hills Family Robinson can be streamed on the Internet Archive.

ALL MY CHILDREN - 1993-95 - Kendall Hart Lang

Promotional Title: The Summer of Seduction. Kendall is the daughter of Erica Kane but Erica doesn't know that, at least in the beginning. While Gellar was on the show, Michelle Trachtenberg (Dawn Summers in sixty-six episodes of Buffy) succeeded Mischa Barton in the role of Lily Benton Montgomery. In Gellar's final scene in 1995 in the show Shane McDermott (Garrett of "Swans Crossing") was onscreen but their two characters did not interact.

More on All My Children

SWANS CROSSING - 1992 - Sydney Orion Rutledge

Carissa Dahlbo, Kristen Mahon, and Sarah Michelle Gellar in episode one of Swans Crossing
Carissa Dahlbo, Kristen Mahon, and Sarah Michelle Gellar in the first episode of Swans Crossing

The teen drama with elements of fantasy set in a fictional New England seaside town Aired 29 June to 25 September 1992 and ran 13 weeks (65 episodes) in syndication.

More on Swans Crossing

All episodes of "Swans Crossing" can be streamed on TUBI.

A WOMAN NAMED JACKIE - 1991 - Teen Jacqueline Bouvier

The miniseries, based on biography of Jacqueline Bouvier by C. David Heymann. With Stephen Collins and Marianna Bishop, begins after Jackie leaves college and follows her life through her marriages to John F. Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis.

Sarah Michelle Gellar as Jackie Bouvier
Gellar as Jackie

"A Woman Named Jackie" can be streamed on Amazon Prime Video

GIRL TALK - 1989 - Self

Only five episodes of this teen magazine show with Soleil Moon Frye were made. The show as produced by Allen Bohbot, and directed by Kevin S. Murray. Brad Kane, who played himself on the show, appeared in two episodes of Buffy. He was Jonathon Levinson's singing voice in the BTVS episode "Superstar", and Tucker Wells in "The Prom". "Girl Talk" first aired in September 1989

Others appearing on Girl Talk were: Russell Koplin, Rod Brogan, and Brian Robbins. About 14 minutes into the pilot episode of GIRL TALK, the next episode's guest stars are announced on screen. Episode Two guests were Joey Lawrence and Sa-Fire (Wilma Cosumé). Though the show only lasted 5 episodes, a board game Called "Girl Talk: Secret Diary" was marketed,and was available at least as recently as 1995. The game was designed for ages 10+ and for 2 to 6 players. Secret Diary spawned at least two other Girl Talk games: "Truth or Dare", and "Dateline". All the games were manufactured by Golden.

Girl Talk

The pilot is available on SMGvids YouTube Channel

CROSSBOW (aka William Tell) - 1988 - Sara Guidotti

In Season 2 Episode 13 - "Actors", Gellar is Sara Guidotti, whose family are a travelling acting company in 14th Century Switzerland (the time of William Tell). She and her relatives enlist a stranger, whom they are not aware is Tell, to participate in an allegorical play about Swiss politics. They ask him to play the werewolf.

Regulars on the series were Dana Barron, Will Lyman, Nick Brimble, and Jeremy Clyde (of the miusical duo "Chad and Jeremy").

Sarah Michelle Gellar - Crossbow

The Emperor referred to in the series is most likely Leopold 1 of Austria. There is no proof that William Tell or Albrecht Gessler, against whom Tell fought, ever existed, but scientific skepticism about the legend is widely regarded (in Switzerland) as an anti-Swiss conspiracy. If Tell did exist, he would probably have lived at the beginning of the 14th century. Crossbow has an unofficial fan site.

The complete series can be streamed on YouTube.

SPENSER: FOR HIRE - 1988 - Emily

In "Company Man", episode 317, which first aired 12 March 1988. Spenser suspects insurance fraud when a building explodes. In an unrelated subplot, Susan has a possibly cancerous mass removed. Emily, who is also in hospital, tries to cheer her up.

Sarah Michelle Gellar - Spenser For Hire
Gellar as Emily in 'Spenser For Hire'

Spenser For Hire can be purchased from Amazon Prime Video.

THE GUIDING LIGHT - 1985 - Flower Girl

Gellar was a flower girl at the wedding of Kurt Corday and Mindy Sue Lewis. The wedding storyline aired from 8 November to 15 November 1985.

Mindy was played by Krista Tesreau. The actor playing Brad was Mark Lewis. Krista Tesreau made regular appearances on THE GUIDING LIGHT as Mindy Lewis until the show was cancelled in 2009. In the November, 1993 issue of Daytime TV Magazine, Gellar said, "The first thing I ever did on a soap was when I was eight years old on Guiding Light as a flower girl at Kurt and Mindy's wedding! I was on GL a couple more times after that, as well as Edge of Night, usually in wedding scenes. I guess I'm just a flower-girl-type of girl!"

Sarah Michelle Gellar - The Guiding Light

A Gellar bio attached to the playbill for WIDOW CLAIRE (she was Molly in a New York production of the Horton Foote play in 1986) states that she also appeared in As the World Turns.

AN INVASION OF PRIVACY - 1983 - Jennifer Bianchi

This TV movie was based on the novel "Asking For It", by Joan Taylor, and fimed on Long Island Sound. The story focuses on recently divorced book illustrator Kate Bianchi (Valerie Harper), who moves to a remote island community in Maine. Kate has barely arrived when she is raped by a local handyman. The locals are hostile to her when she presses charges, but she is helped by the local police chief (Cliff DeYoung). Jerry Orbach and Tammy Grimes have cameos. Carol Kane, who plays Ilene Cohen, was Cheryl in the film "Over the Brooklyn Bridge", in which Gellar made her first (undredited) film appearance.

Sarah Michelle Gellar - An Invasion of Privacy

An Invation of Privacy can be streamed in its entirety on YouTube.

LOVE, SIDNEY - 1982 - Gail Hunnicut

Gellar appeared in "Sidney's Spree" (Season 2 Episode 3), which originally aired on 16 October 1982. In this episode: Sidney has a toothache, and resists the advances of his Building Superintendent's wife.

This was the one of the first American network shows (NBC) to feature a gay character. (He was closeted until the very end of the series.) It tarred Tony Randall (as Sidney), Kaleena Kiff, and Swoosie Kurtz.