Joyce Summers, a mother of title character Buffy, first appeared in the episode "Welcome to the Hellmouth", bringing Buffy to Sunnydale after Buffy burns down the gym at her old school.

She manufactured appearances from either year a single to year vii, appearing inside every year at least another time, existence one of pack non-cast member characters to wash soh. Joyce had included sustaining the total of men, including Ted, the robot played by John Ritter, in the episode "Ted".

Joyce was at 1st the average, somewhat overprotective parent--somewhat justified by getting the girl world health organization burned down the school gymnasium back inside L.The. All the same, she & Buffy did have a jolly practiced mother-daughter relationship. Now & then i saw glimpses of the complicated and super cool woman--within year 2, episode trey, e.g., she hits Spike with an axe & warns to "get the hell away from her daughter!".

She entertain Xander Harris under a spell inside "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered'", and experienced sex by having Buffy's Watcher Rupert Giles twice on top of the patrol car, spell under a second spell in the episode "Band Candy".

Joyce Summers yet attend her demise, starting using what seemed to become the little infection around "Out of My Mind". Fallowing she has surgery around "Listening to Fear", the Scooby Gang thinks that Joyce is okay. However to the shock of several, Buffy finds her mother dead on the couch in "The Body", after death of an aneurism. That episode revolved around a aftermath of her dying, & featured there is no non-diagetic music.

She is restored in the year 6 episode "Normal Again" in an alternate reality in which Buffy was a mental patient & was good dreaming higher lamia & demons & the Killer. She mass produced her 2nd to previous appearance in the year heptad episode "Conversations with Dead People", where she come to Dawn Summers as a ghost. It wwhen never explained whenever this really was Joyce, or even A Foremost sitting as her. Her final appearance is around "Bring on the Night" where Joyce comes to Buffy in the dream.

Joyce mass produced 58 guest appearances in Buffy a Vampire Slayer, from either year of these to year heptad.