Mr Giles is English, and Oxford educated, and was assigned to the US, giving up a career as a museum curator, to become Buffy's Watcher. He initially wanted to be a fighter pilot, or maybe a grocer. Now in his early forties he was a rebellious youth (at one point summoning a demon - oops) but he finally settled and accepted his destiny. He had studied and trained to be a Watcher from a young age, as did his father before him, and his grandmother before that.

Season One

Rupert Giles takes up the role of High School Librarian in order to become Buffy's Watcher. He is a little taken aback by her negative reaction to discovering him as her new Watcher but persaveres. Giles gradually grows fond of Buffy, in a father/daughter way. Although her methods, and the fact that she aquires a gang of friends to help, are a little unusual, she proves to be a very effective Slayer. Giles comes across as a stuffy tweed wearing librarian book nerd guy, but does evolve a little. When a prophecy is uncovered fortelling Buffy's death, Giles decides to take on the Master himself, to protect Buffy. She see's things differently and knocks him out.

Season Two

With Buffy back from her vacation in LA, it's slaying business as usual. Giles begins to develope a relationship with the computer sciences teacher, Jenny Calender, but problems ensue when an old friend of Giles', Ethan Rayne, turns up in Sunnydale bent on reeking havoc. Details of Giles' rebelious past eventually come out, and Jenny is temporarily possessed by the demon, Eyghon, whom he'd summoned back in his youth. They eventually get back together, only to fall out again when Angel loses his soul, after it is discovered she was in Sunnydale to watch Angel on behalf of her Gypsy relatives. When Jenny manages to discover the curse needed to restore Angel's soul he kills her and leaves her in Giles' bed. A highly emotional Giles heads out to Angels lair to kill him, and has to be rescued by Buffy. He is eventually kidnapped and tortured by Angel in order to discover the secret of how to open the gates to Hell through the demon Acathla. Drusilla tricks him into telling them what they need by pretending to be Jenny. He is rescued by Buffy and Xander, but there is no sign of Buffy for the rest of the summer.

Season Three

After flying here, there and everywhere looking for Buffy, she finally decides to come home, much to Giles' relief. He is the only who is not openly angry with her for running away. With Joyce now aware of her daughters destiny, she and Giles gradually work together as a team to monitor Buffy's activities. Under the influence of cursed chocolate, which involves old advisary Ethan Rayne, Giles and Joyce go on a jaunt around Sunnydale, acting like teenagers, culminating with them making out twice on the bonnet of a police car. Don't ask where the Officer was, or how they came to aquire his gun and cuffs! Things take a turn for the worse during a rite of passage ritual that all Slayers must face on their Eighteenth birthday. Buffy manages to pass the test, but Giles does not and is fired from his role as Buffy's Watcher. On top of that a new second Slayer has arrived in Sunnydale, and is slowly spiraling out of control, and Angel has returned from Hell. The new Watcher, Wesley Wyndham-Price, is coldly recieved, and Buffy continues to favour Giles. The second Slayer, Faith, continues to spiral, and the Mayor has big plans for Graduation Day. Giles sticks steadfast and loyal to Buffy, resulting in him blowing up the High School on Graduation Day to save the Class of 99 and Sunnydale from the newly Ascended Mayor.

Season Four

Giles is now out of a job, and Buffy is gaining her independence at college. With both Giles and Buffy no longer working for the Council of Watchers, Giles decides to have a go at having a life. He does continue to help Buffy and the gang, but also entertains an old friend, Olivia, who just happened to be in the area, and takes up a job singing rock ballads in the local coffee shop. The beginning of the dreaded 'mid life crisis'? Giles aquires an unusual new 'friend' in the form of a 'neutered' vampire, old advisary Spike. His clothes also get the casual treatment. After a few hiccups, including the return of Ethan Rayne who decides it might be fun to turn Giles into a Fyaral demon, he sticks to his steadfast loyalty to Buffy and helps her to defeat a military experiment gone wrong.

Season Five

Coming soon...