Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American cult television series that aired from March 10; 1997 until May 20; 2003. The series was created in 1997 by writer-director Joss Whedon under his production tag; Mutant Enemy Productions with later co-executive producers being Jane Espenson; David Fury; and Marti Noxon. The series narrative follows Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar); the latest in a line of young women chosen by fate to battle against vampires; demons; and the forces of darkness as the Slayer.