The most wonderful time of the year is once again upon us. The Christmas season is here and with that comes Christmas TV episodes!

For the 25 days leading up til Christmas Day this month, we’ll be spotlighting some of the best Christmas-themed episodes from some of Geek culture’s greatest shows. Each day we’ll cover different shows and episodes and encourage you to watch along with us. So come one, come all, to the 25 Days of Geek TV Christmas!

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 – Day 7: Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Season 3, Episode 10: “Amends”
Directed by: Joss Whedon
Written by: Joss Whedon
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Head, Seth Green, and Eliza Dushku
Original Air Date: December 15, 1998

If you’re a Hulu Plus subscriber, you can check out the episode here or you can also purchase a copy of the episode at Amazon or iTunes.

Scooby-Doo 1 & 2 Collection
Blu-ray
Directed by Raja Gosnell
Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Release date: November 10, 2010

I have never been a big Scooby-Doo fan. I was more involved with mutant turtles and tiny toons to pay attention, but I had some passing knowledge of the popular cartoon. Next to Mickey Mouse, Scooby-Doo is pretty high up on the animated animal chart so it was only natural that his presence would be felt on the big screen. Enter Scooby-Doo and its sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, which were recently re-released on Blu-ray as a two-pack.

Scooby-Doo brings the famous Mystery Inc. detective agency together in their first live-action adventure. After a solving case involving a flying “ghost,” the Scooby gang gets into a heated argument, resulting in Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby going their separate ways. Two years pass and the former Scooby gang are brought back together once more by an eccentric millionaire. It seems his amusement park, Spooky Island, is having an odd effect on his guests and he wants the top detective agency to solve the mystery. In Scooby Doo-2, the sequel picks up with Mystery Inc. right at the height of their popularity up until some of their foes from their cartoon past make their presence appear, causing all sorts of havoc on their lives.

Mere hours ago, word hit the internet that Warner Brothers had acquired the rights to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and would be moving forward on a reboot of the property based on a pitch by Whit Anderson, who is currently working on the screenplay for her take on the character.

Well, it didn’t take long for someone to get a hold of Joss Whedon, who wrote the script for the 1992 original Buffy starring Kristy Swanson, created, wrote, directed, and produced the mega-popular TV series of the same name starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, and is also responsible for things like Firefly, Angel, and Dollhouse. Whedon is busy working away on The Avengers, the Marvel comic book movie that’s been set up over the past handful of years to become one of the biggest movies of all time, which he was hired to write and direct. Nevertheless, the fanboy favorite took the time to write a response letter sharing his feelings on the new reboot, and you don’t want to miss what he had to say.

You can head on over to the other side to read the full letter from Whedon, and you should plan to giggle once or twice.

Amazon is offering up Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1 for purchase for only $6.99 through their Video On Demand service.

This digital deal is only for today, Tuesday, November 16 until midnight PST, so grab it while you can.

The digital version is regularly around $12, and sold separately, the 12 episodes in Season 1 cost 99 cents each.

Visit the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1 product page to purchase the season at the discounted price.

If you’ve never seen Buffy The Vampire Slayer, then now’s the perfect time to jump on. But, fans of the show can tell you that the series, which ran for 7 seasons from 1997 to 2003, doesn’t get really good until after this first season, so stick with it! Buffy The Vampire Slayer, which was created by Joss Whedon, starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers, a teenager whose destiny as a “Slayer” finds her battling various supernatural forces that plague the town of Sunnydale.

The TV deal of the week over at Amazon this week is Buffy the Vampire Slayer – The Complete Series DVD for only $70.99 (that’s 65% off the list price of $199.99).

Note, this deal is valid through Saturday, October 23, 2010 while supplies last.

This DVD box set contains all 7 seasons of the popular Joss Whedon television series which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as the titular vampire slayer along with Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Stewart Head, and Nicholas Brendon. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which ran from 1997 to 2003, also co-starred Eliza Dushku, Seth Green, James Marsters, and many more, as well as introduced the character of Angel (David Boreanaz), who eventually got his own spin-off show.

Math time: at $70.99, you’d be paying only $10.14 per season! That’s a steal, considering the box set is worth getting even at the original price.