Sunnydale Memorial,[1][2][3][4] also known as Sunnydale General,[5][6] was one of the hospitals in Sunnydale, along Bowers,[7] Mercy Hospital[8] and the Sunnydale Mental Hospital.[9] Notably, Benjamin Wilkinson worked as a medical intern, while Joyce Summers had her tumor treated in this hospital.[1]
History[]
In 1998, Buffy Summers was rushed to Sunnydale General with the flu after fainting, where Dr. Wilkinson attended her. At this time, der Kindestod was preying on sick children hospitalized there, and he was only seen by those who were feverish. Dr. Stanley Backer developed a formula to treat the children's fever, but the demon killed him for it. Buffy, after recovering, forced herself into becoming sick by drinking a diluted vial of a disease. She then killed the demon in the hospital's basement, saving the boy Ryan.[5]
In 2000, Graham Miller arranged a doctor to treat Riley Finn's arrhythmia in Sunnydale General. However, Spike and Harmony Kendall kidnapped Dr. Overheiser to UC Sunnydale, where he eventually performed the surgery on Riley.[6]
Between 2000 to 2001, Joyce admitted herself to the hospital numerous times because of a brain tumor.[6][1][2] During those events, a Lei-Ach demon was captured and recruited by Glorificus for to kill the Slayer.[10] Later, a Queller demon was summoned by Ben to rid the amount of mentally ill patients caused by Glory.[2]
Dawn Summers, having learned of her status as the Key, ran away and encountered Ben. He made her hot chocolate at the locker room where they talked. Dawn revealed that she was the Key and Ben turned into Glory, who then killed a guard and took Dawn to an x-ray room to question her. The Scooby Gang arrived to rescue her and Willow Rosenberg teleported Glory away.[11]
With Joyce's death, Dr. Aaron Kriegel performed her autopsy. Afterward, Buffy saved Dawn from a newly risen vampire in the same room where Joyce's body lied.[12]
Weeks later, Tara was taken to the hospital after Glory crushed her hand and took her sanity.[13] When Glory found out Dawn was the Key and captured her, all her victims broke out of their confinement from the psychiatry ward.[14]
In 2002, Buffy was taken to the hospital after Warren Mears shot her in her backyard. The paramedics operated on her until Willow, consumed by dark magic, made them leave and telekinetically removed the bullet and healed Buffy instantly.[4]
The hospital was presumably destroyed in 2003 along with the entire town after the battle at the Hellmouth.[15]
Staff[]
- Stanley Backer — doctor[5]
- Don Hauk — security guard[5]
- Isaacs — doctor[1]
- Aaron Kriegel — doctor[1][2][16][12]
- Lambkin — nurse[2]
- McCarthy — doctor[13]
- Harris — paramedic[12]
- Wick — paramedic[12]
- Wilkinson — doctor[5]
- Benjamin Wilkinson — intern[6] (formerly)[13]
- Unidentified intern[10]
- Unidentified doctor[6]
Patients[]
Behind the scenes[]
- The interiors and establishing shots were filmed at the Linda Vista Community Hospital, a hospital closed in 1991 that since then became a popular filming location.
- While the name Sunnydale Memorial is mentioned only in the episodes "Shadow," "Listening to Fear," "Forever," "The Weight of the World," and "Villains," they establish that the Memorial staff includes recurring characters Ben and Dr. Kriegel. The name Sunnydale General is only mentioned in "Out of My Mind," but it's shown in the hospital's exterior in "Killed by Death" and "Blood Ties," the same exterior as in "Band Candy."
- Other episodes in which a Sunnydale hospital appear, but no identification is clear, are: "Angel," "The Dark Age," "Becoming, Part Two," "Dead Man's Party," "Lovers Walk," "Graduation Day, Part Two," "This Year's Girl," "Dirty Girls," "Empty Places," and "End of Days." Unspecific hospitals are also mentioned in the episodes "Revelations," "Real Me," and "Triangle."
Appearances[]
Canonical[]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2 | |||||||||||
"When She Was Bad" Absent |
"Some Assembly Required" Absent |
"School Hard" Absent |
"Inca Mummy Girl" Absent |
"Reptile Boy" Absent |
"Halloween" Absent |
"Lie to Me" Absent |
"The Dark Age" Absent |
"What's My Line? Part One" Absent |
"What's My Line? Part Two" Absent |
"Ted" Absent | |
"Bad Eggs" Absent |
"Surprise" Absent |
"Innocence" Absent |
"Phases" Absent |
"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" Absent |
"Passion" Absent |
"Killed by Death" Appears |
"I Only Have Eyes for You" Absent |
"Go Fish" Absent |
"Becoming, Part One" Absent |
"Becoming, Part Two" Absent |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3 | |||||||||||
"Anne" Absent |
"Dead Man's Party" Absent |
"Faith, Hope & Trick" Absent |
"Beauty and the Beasts" Absent |
"Homecoming" Absent |
"Band Candy" Appears |
"Revelations" Absent |
"Lovers Walk" Absent |
"The Wish" Absent |
"Amends" Absent |
"Gingerbread" Absent | |
"Helpless" Absent |
"The Zeppo" Absent |
"Bad Girls" Absent |
"Consequences" Absent |
"Doppelgängland" Absent |
"Enemies" Absent |
"Earshot" Absent |
"Choices" Absent |
"The Prom" Absent |
"Graduation Day, Part One" Absent |
"Graduation Day, Part Two" Absent |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 5 | |||||||||||
"Buffy vs. Dracula" Absent |
"Real Me" Absent |
"The Replacement" Absent |
"Out of My Mind" Appears |
"No Place Like Home" Appears |
"Family" Appears |
"Fool for Love" Mention |
"Shadow" Appears |
"Listening to Fear" Appears |
"Into the Woods" Appears |
"Triangle" Absent | |
"Checkpoint" Appears |
"Blood Ties" Appears |
"Crush" Mention |
"I Was Made to Love You" Mention |
"The Body" Appears |
"Forever" Appears |
"Intervention" Absent |
"Tough Love" Appears |
"Spiral" Appears |
"The Weight of the World" Appears |
"The Gift" Flashback |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 6 | |||||||||||
"Bargaining, Part One" Absent |
"Bargaining, Part Two" Absent |
"After Life" Absent |
"Flooded" Absent |
"Life Serial" Absent |
"All the Way" Absent |
"Once More, with Feeling" Absent |
"Tabula Rasa" Absent |
"Smashed" Absent |
"Wrecked" Absent |
"Gone" Absent | |
"Doublemeat Palace" Absent |
"Dead Things" Absent |
"Older and Far Away" Absent |
"As You Were" Absent |
"Hell's Bells" Absent |
"Normal Again" Absent |
"Entropy" Absent |
"Seeing Red" Absent |
"Villains" Appears |
"Two to Go" Absent |
"Grave" Absent |
Other[]
References[]
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