The Wish Cast

The Wish

Written by: Marti Noxon


Cast

Marti Noxon   Writer
David Greenwalt   Director
Sarah Michelle Gellar   Buffy Summers
Nicholas Brendon   Xander Harris
Alyson Hannigan   Willow Rosenberg
Charisma Carpenter   Cordelia Chase
David Boreanaz   Angel
Seth Green   Oz
Anthony Stewart Head   Rupert Giles
Mark Metcalf   The Master
Emma Caulfield   Anya/Anyanka
Larry Bagby III   Larry
Mercedes McNab   Harmony
Danny Strong   Jonathan
Nicole Bilderback   Cordette #1
Nathan Anderson   John Lee
Mariah O'Brien   Nancy
Gary Imhoff   Teacher
Robert Covarrubias Caretaker

The Spies - "Tired of Being Alone" (1998) Plays while Xander, Buffy and Willow watch Cordelia ostentatiously enjoying herself at the Bronze.

Plastic - "Dedicated to Pain" (Unreleased) This song plays as Vamp Willow and Vamp Xander walk into the Bronze to visit the Master.

This episode is mainly inspired by the Frank Capra's 1946 Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life, in which George Bailey (played by Jimmy Stewart) wishes he had never been born, and is then shown by an angel how much worse his loved ones' lives would have been without him. In this permutation, the angel is replaced by a demon called Anyanka, who Giles describes as "a sort of patron saint of scorned women" who grants wishes.

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