Season One

The first season of The Vampire Diaries began airing in the United States on Thursday, September 10, 2009. It is a TV adaption of L.J. Smith's series of young adult novels of the same name. There was one week break in October, then two months break from November 19 to January 21. After that, there was a break from February 11 to March 25.
==Season Summary==
Four months after the tragic car accident that killed their parents, 17-year-old Elena Gilbert and her 15-year-old brother, Jeremy, are still adjusting to their new reality. Elena has always been the star student; beautiful, popular and involved with school and friends, but now she finds herself struggling to hide her grief from the world. Elena and Jeremy are now living with their cool-but-overwhelmed Aunt Jenna, who is doing her best to be a surrogate parent.
Elena manages to find some comfort with her familiar social circle – best friend Bonnie, frenemy Caroline, and former boyfriend Matt, but Jeremy is on a more dangerous path, hanging out with the stoners and using drugs to hide his pain. Jeremy is also trying to figure out why Matt's sister, Vicki, is suddenly rejecting him and hanging out with Jeremy's rival, Tyler.
As the school year begins at Mystic Falls High School, Elena and her friends are fascinated by a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore. Stefan and Elena are immediately drawn to one another, although Elena is puzzled by Stefan's increasingly bizarre behavior when he appears suddenly at the cemetery where her parents are buried. What she doesn't realize is that Stefan is hiding a dark, deadly secret of his own – the fact that he's a 161 year old vampire. At a bonfire party the next night, Elena and Stefan are just getting to know each other when chaos erupts after Vicki is attacked and left bleeding from a savage bite to the neck.
Fearing that he knows who is responsible for the attack, Stefan returns home and finds his older brother, Damon, whom he hasn't seen for 15 years. Damon is also a vampire, and the two brothers have a long and bitter history. Damon ridicules Stefan for rejecting their legacy of violence and brutality, but he understands his brother's obsession with Elena, since she looks exactly like a woman Stefan loved more than a century ago; a woman that Damon tried to make his own. Now these two vampire brothers – one good, one evil – are at war for Elena's soul and for the souls of her friends, family and all the residents of Mystic Falls, Virginia.
Based on the series of books by L. J. Smith, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES is from Alloy Entertainment and Bonanza Productions Inc in association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios with executive producers Kevin Williamson ("Scream," "Dawson's Creek"), Julie Plec ("Kyle XY," "Wasteland"), Leslie Morgenstein ("Gossip Girl," "Private") and Bob Levy ("Gossip Girl," "Privileged")
==Antagonists==
*Damon Salvatore
*Annabelle
*John Gilbert
*Isobel Flemming
*Katherine Pierce
==Cast==
For more information, see Character Appearances.
===Starring===
*Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert (22/22) / Katherine Pierce (4/22) (1x22 onwards)*
*Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore (22/22)
*Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore (22/22)
*Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert (21/22)
*Sara Canning as Jenna Sommers (16/22)
*Katerina Graham as Bonnie Bennett (16/22)
*Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes (17/22)
*Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan (17/22)
*Kayla Ewell as Vicki Donovan (7/22) (1x01 - 1x10, picture cameo in 1x15, corpse in 1x17)**
*Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood (11/22)
*Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman (12/22) (1x14 onwards)***
:Note 1: *Katherine recurs in 1x06, 1x13, and 1x20}}.
:Note 2: **Appears as a regular character through 1x10.
:Note 3: ***Appears as a special guest character between 1x09 — 1x13.
===Guest Starring===
*Chris William Martin as Zach Salvatore (4/22)
*Benjamin Ayres as William Tanner (3/22)****
*Chris Johnson as Logan Fell (5/22)
*Marguerite MacIntyre as Liz Forbes (10/22)
*Jasmine Guy as Sheila Bennett (5/22)
*Arielle Kebbel as Lexi Branson (1/22)
*Bianca Lawson as Emily Bennett (4/22)
*Mia Kirshner as Isobel Flemming (4/22)
*Malese Jow as Anna (11/22)
*Gina Torres as Bree (1/22)
*Brandon Quinn as Lee (1/22)
*Unknown (2/22) / Dillon Casey (1/22) as Noah (3/22)
*Sean Faris as Ben McKittrick (3/22)
*Kelly Hu as Pearl (7/22)
*James Remar as Giuseppe Salvatore (2/22)
*Sterling Sulieman as Harper (5/22)
*Amanda Detmer as Trudie Peterson (1/22)
*Melinda Clarke as Kelly Donovan (4/22)
*Stephen Martines as Frederick (2/22)
*David Anders as John Gilbert (5/22)
*Spencer Locke as Amber Bradley (1/22)
*Mike Erwin as Charlie (1/22)
:Note 4: ****Originally credited as co-starring minor character in 1x01.
===Co-Starring===
*Rob Pralgo as Mayor Lockwood (8/22)
*Susan Walters as Mrs. Lockwood (5/22)
*Joe Knezevich as Johnathan Gilbert (2/22)
*Tiffany Morgan as Miss Gibbons (3/22) (1 uncredited)
*Evan Gamble as Henry (1/22)
==Crew==
===Writers (12)===
*Julie Plec (9/22) (4 co-written, 4 co-written teleplays, 1 teleplay)
*Kevin Williamson (8/22) (4 co-written, 4 co-written teleplays)	 
*Brian Young (6/22) (4 co-written, 1 story)
*Barbie Kligman (5/22) (4 co-written, 1 story)
*Bryan Oh (3/22) (co-written)
*Andrew Chambliss (3/22) (co-written)
*Bryan M. Holdman (2/22) (co-written)
*Andrew Kreisberg (2/22) (1 co-written, 1 story)
*Sean Reycraft (2/22) (1 co-written, 1 story)
*Gabrielle Stanton (2/22) (co-written)
*Caroline Dries (2/22) (co-written)
*Brett Conrad (1/22)
===Directors (12)===
*Marcos Siega (8/22)
*Kevin Bray (2/22)
*J. Miller Tobin (2/22)
*Liz Friedlander (2/22)
*John Dahl (1/22)
*Guy Ferland (1/22)
*Ernest R. Dickerson (1/22)
*Rick Bota (1/22)
*David Barrett (1/22)
*Joshua Butler (1/22)
*Dennis Smith (1/22)
*David Von Ancken (1/22)
==Episode List: 2009-2010==
==Trivia==
* This season has ten series regulars since it started. Stefan and Damon are the only main characters to appear in every episode of the series to date.
* Vicki Donovan (Kayla Ewell) is the first major character to be killed on the show. She departs the cast in the seventh episode of the season, Haunted.
* In an interview Kayla Ewell talked about a possible return for Vicki. She stated that Vicki's death was something that needed to happen in order for Jeremy to go through a transformation and that "Anything can happen on a vampire show. Dying doesn't necessarily mean that someone's gone forever.".Kayla Ewell, Interview with Michael Ausiello https://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/10/29/exclusive-the-shocking-story-behind-last-nights-killer-vampire-diaries/ In another interview she stated that she´s still under contract,She told E! Online's Party Girl Cristina Gibson but executive producer Kevin Williamson stated in another that they have no plans to bring her back.https://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b152937_Is_Taylor_Swift_Headed_to__i_Vampire_Diaries__i__.html
* Matt Davis (Alaric Saltzman) joins the cast as a recurring character in History Repeating, joining the cast as a regular character in the middle of Season One, replacing Kayla Ewell.
* The CW has formally picked up nine more episodes for The Vampire Diaries' first season, taking it to a full season of 22 episodes.
* This season is very loosely based on The Awakening and The Struggle.
* The CW announced an early renewal for Season Two of The Vampire Diaries on Tuesday, February 16, 2010, along with 5 other popular CW TV shows.
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==References==
==External links==
*Official Facebook
*Official Twitter
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*IMDB
==See also==
* Season One Soundtrack
* Season One Minor Characters
* Season One Body Count
* Season One Co-Stars
* The Complete First Season (DVD)
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