 Sometimes billed as ""The" Witch", the episode was directed by Stephen Cragg and was the first episode not written by show creator Joss Whedon and the first of seven with no vampire in it.The premise of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" involves an adolescent girl named Buffy Summers who is chosen by mystical forces and endowed with superhuman powers in order to defeat vampires, demons, and other evils in the fictional town of Sunnydale.She accomplishes this with the assistance of a close circle of friends and family.