Buffy The Vampire Slayer: 10 Best Characters Only In One Episode

10. Ted

Ted Buchanan is the ultimate clean-cut fast mover with a steady job. He is a whizz in the kitchen, a hit with Buffy's mum and friends, and he also happens to be a robot.

Played by John Ritter (of Three's Company fame) and featuring in the eponymous 'Ted' (episode eleven of season two), Ted is a new romantic interest for Joyce Summers who swiftly assumes an overbearing father figure role in a more than reluctant Buffy's life.

But it wouldn't be Sunnydale if things didn't do the wacky, and Ted turns out to be a robotic copy of his creator, who has been cyclically collecting wives and absconding with them to his private bunker since the 1950s.

With a cupboard full of corpses and a penchant for violence, there is only one way it could ever end, and Ted is last seen facing off against the business end of a Buffy-wielded frying pan before he's added to the 'scrap heap of life'.

"Beg to differ, li'l lady."