The following is a list of episodes for the Americanculttelevision series, Angel. The series began with an unaired pitch tape which took place in 1999, then continued to its first season on 05 October1999 and ran for over five years until its finale on 19 May2004. In that time, 110 episodes of the series have aired.
Currently, all five seasons of the series are available on DVDs for regions 1, 2 and 4. An all-season collection (The Complete DVD Collectors' Edition) has been released for regions 1, 2, and 4.
Newly arrived in Los Angeles, Angel is befriended by a half-demon named Doyle whose visions lead him to a powerful vampire whose next victim just may be Cordelia Chase. Crossover: Angel telephones Buffy but doesn't speak. Buffy takes this mystery call in "The Freshman", shown immediately before.
Angel tracks a demonic serial killer who must kill often, and who prefers hunting at a happening Los Angeles singles bar. He meets the undercover LAPD Detective Kate Lockley, who believes the killer is twisted but entirely human.
Angel receives an unexpected visit from Oz, who delivers a gift from Buffy. Spike also comes to town, bringing chaos and mayhem for all. Crossover: This episode continues a story begun in "The Harsh Light of Day", aired immediately before.
Doyle has a vision of a woman in danger and Angel discovers she is being stalked by a neurosurgeon who has learned to detach and reattach parts of his body.
Kate is very good at her job, but her temper makes the LAPD brass send the entire department to sensitivity training. When Kate asks Angel to accompany her to a cop function, Angel begins to notice some extremely strange behavior.
Doyle's soon-to-be-ex-wife comes to town, but her demonic fiancé-to-be wants something more—personal—than merely Doyle's signature on divorce papers. Crossover: In the last scene, Doyle has a vision of Buffy in danger. Angel goes to Sunnydale in "Pangs".
As he investigates the involvement of Kate's father in a vampire drug-smuggling ring, Angel remembers his final conflict with his own father—the day Angelus was sired.
An embattled celebrity enlists Angel to protect her from a stalker, but she becomes tempted by the "immortality" that being a vampire seems to offer and accidentally releases Angelus.
Rogue Slayer Faith comes to town and three associates at Wolfram and Hart hire her to assassinate Angel, causing Angel to remember his own failed attempts at redemption. Crossover: Faith was last seen fleeing Sunnydale in "Who Are You"
Angel's flashbacks continue. Everyone—from the police, to Wesley, to the Watchers' Council, to Buffy Summers—is out to get Faith, and Angel is the only one who can stop them. Crossover: After this episode, Angel will visit Sunnydale in "The Yoko Factor".
Lindsey helps Angel break into Wolfram and Hart to prevent a blind assassin from carrying out her deadly mission. While Angel is in Wolfram and Hart he comes across a scroll to which he feels a weird connection, so he steals it. Crossover: Cordelia calls Willow for help in disc decryption, soon after the events of the theft. "Primeval".
Wolfram and Hart raises a powerful warrior demon to sever Angel's connections to the Powers. Then, using an incantation from the ancient scroll that Angel stole from Wolfram and Hart, the evil law firm raises an even more powerful adversary. With the scroll back in Angel's possession, Wesley translates an ominous prophecy (called the Shanshu) concerning an unnamed vampire—with a soul.
In the 1950s, Angel aids a woman living on the lam in the Hyperion Hotel, an establishment with a long history of death and mayhem. In the present, Angel returns to the Hyperion and tracks the demon he refused to stop 50 years earlier.
Angel is desperate to rescue Darla from the clutches of Wolfram & Hart. Darla remembers her past. Crossover: This episode consists largely of flashbacks. Some of the events recounted are seen from another viewpoint in "Fool for Love", first aired earlier the same night.
Learning that Darla is dying, Angel refuses to turn her into a vampire. Instead, he undertakes a series of mystical ordeals in which he must ultimately sacrifice his own life for hers.
After firing his staff and cutting himself off from all help, Angel takes on Darla and Drusilla. Crossover: After this episode, Drusilla visits Sunnydale in "Crush".
While the group tries to track down vampires, Cordelia gets a surprise visit from her high school friend Harmony. Crossover: Harmony left Sunnydale after "Crush". Cordelia calls Willow for information on Harmony.
After learning that Cordelia has become the Princess of Pylea, Wesley and Gunn are captured by rebels as Angel tries to save a slave sentenced to execution.
Aided by Fred, Angel struggles with his inner beast the demon dimension brings out in him, while Wesley and Gunn join with rebel forces to overthrow the government. In the last scene, the team return home to the Hyperion to find Willow with news of Buffy's death in "The Gift".
Gunn's loyalties are torn between his current demon-hunting associates and the gang he used to hang out with when his old gang starts murdering innocent demons.
Angel's friends are affected by a man called Billy with the power to make other men brutalise women, forcing Fred to deal with a psychotic Wesley and Gunn.
Angel, Fred and Gunn break into an auction house to get an object that may locate Cordelia, but a cat burglar named Gwen, who possesses the power to control electricity, targets the same relic.
The gang learns that the answer to stopping The Beast is "among them", they suspect Connor. Meanwhile, Gwen returns, and the gang learn that the Beast intends to blot out the sun.
Wesley releases Faith from prison to help capture Angelus, who is himself going after the Beast. Crossover: Another prisoner uses a Bringer's knife to attack Faith. Angelus calls Dawn Summers to find out if Buffy is still in Sunnydale.
Willow is called in to restore Angel's soul. Meanwhile, while in their comas, Angelus and Faith experience flashbacks of Angel's good deeds over the centuries, culminating in a mental showdown between Angel and Angelus. Crossover: Willow visits from Sunnydale, after receiving a phone call, from Fred, in "Lies My Parents Told Me". Faith returns, with Willow, to Sunnydale in "Dirty Girls".
The gang learns of a higher being's plan to give birth to itself through Cordelia, and Connor receives a visit from the spirit of his deceased mother, Darla.
As Cordelia lies in a coma following her demonic delivery, the rest of the gang becomes acquainted with---and enchanted by---her unexpected offspring, Jasmine.
After discovering the secret to breaking Jasmine's spell over the nation's citizens, Fred must find a way to save the others before she's captured and killed.
Free from Jasmine's spell, Angel and the gang escape into the sewers for protection, where Wesley discovers an insect-like demon that may hold the key to defeating Jasmine.
With Jasmine defeated, Angel and the gang are made an offer they can't refuse from W&H, and Connor goes over the edge into madness. Crossover: Angel goes to Sunnydale after this episode, arriving in the Buffy episode "End of Days", to deliver a special amulet.
Taking over the LA offices of Wolfram & Hart proves to be more challenging than expected, especially when Spike shows up back from the dead, out from the amulet that is supposed to be buried deep within the hellmouth.
Spike struggles to maintain his weak grip on reality as spectral forces threaten to send him to hell, and Fred races to find a way to give him his body back.
Spike is recorporealized, and the two souled vampires battle it out to drink from the "Cup of Perpetual Torment" to settle the renewed conflict of the Shanshu Prophecy.
Someone approaches Spike claiming responsibility for recorporealizing him, and Angel is infected by a parasite that makes him experience nightmares where Spike is the champion and he is ignored. The only episode to have been directed by a cast member (David Boreanaz)
Demon puppets from a popular children's show steal the life forces of children by hypnotizing them, and Angel is transformed into a puppet when he tries to investigate.
Hoping that Lindsey has information on the Senior Partners' ultimate plans, Angel, Spike and Gunn track him down to the hell dimension where he was banished.
Connor's new parents seek help from Wolfram & Hart about their son's supernatural abilities, and the past comes back to haunt Wesley when he learns about the deal Angel made to save his son.
Angel and Spike travel to Rome with plans to rescue Buffy from their old nemesis The Immortal while preventing a demon war and Fred's parents come looking for their daughter unaware that she is dead.
The gang starts to have doubts about Angel's loyalties after witnessing his disturbing behavior and problematic decisions and while Spike is looking for a demon with Illyria, Drogen the guardian of deeper well arrives to tell Spike that Angel tried to kill him.