The Best Episodes of Angel

Angel and his friends prepare for their suicide attack on the Circle of the Black Thorn.

Director: Jeffrey Bell

Writer: Joss Whedon, Jeffrey Bell

When Lindsey returns and tries to defeat Angel using a secret "failsafe" entity created by the Powers That Be, Cordelia emerges from her coma to help save Angel.

Director: David Fury

Writer: David Fury

While Nina the werewolf show romantic interest in Angel, he investigates a demon-infested children's television program and gets turned into a puppet; Gunn makes a deal to keep his newly implanted mental powers; and Wes and Fred's relationship heats up.

Director: Ben Edlund

Writer: Joss Whedon, Ben Edlund

After being breathed on by an ancient sarcophagus, Fred contracts a mystery illness and lies near death while Angel and his friends try to figure out what's wrong with her.

Director: Joss Whedon

Writer: Joss Whedon

Mourning Fred's death, Angel and his friends vow to find a way to bring her back, which leads to a confrontation with the ancient god Illyria, who now occupies Fred's body.

Director: Steven S. DeKnight

Writer: Steven S. DeKnight

After Spike receives a strange package, Wolfram and Hart employees are possessed by evil... while Angel and Spike are set against each other in a quest that brings their 100-year-old rivalry to a head.

Director: Skip Schoolnik

Writer: David Fury, Steven S. DeKnight

As Angel's behaviour grows increasingly hostile, his friends learn he's associating with members of an evil secret society, and may have deliberately engineered Fred's death.

Director: James A. Contner

Writer: David Fury

As Darla goes through a difficult labour, Holtz pursues Angel.

Director: Tim Minear

Writer: Tim Minear

Angel and his friends attend a ballet,where Angel realises he saw the exact same dancers on stage 110 years ago.

Director: Joss Whedon

Writer: Joss Whedon

To save Connor's life, Wes takes him away from Angel; Angel uncovers Lilah's plot to have him kill Connor, Holtz finally attacks.

Director: Terrence O'Hara

Writer: David Greenwalt

Old feelings are rekindled when Buffy comes to L.A. to visit Angel. Buffy and Angel are attacked by a Mohra demon, and together they slay it

Director: David Grossman

Writer: David Greenwalt, Jeannine Renshaw

On her birthday, Cordelia learns her visions will kill her unless she goes back in time and chooses a different path in life - which doesn't include Angel.

Director: Michael Grossman

Writer: Mere Smith

When a warlock brings Connor back into Angel's life, Wesley finds out that Angel has tinkered with the memories of his friends.

Director: Terrence O'Hara

Writer: Drew Goddard

As Fred and Gunn search for Wesley, Angel searches for Sahjhan - and casts a spell to make him corporeal so he can be killed.

Director: Turi Meyer

Writer: Jeffrey Bell

When Wesley's father visits Wolfram and Hart, the firm is attacked by a troop of spooky Ninja cyborgs.

Director: Jefferson Kibbee

Writer: Drew Goddard

A deranged vampire slayer is convinced that Spike is the man who kidnapped and tortured her when she was a child.

Director: Jefferson Kibbee

Writer: Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard

Angel, Gunn and Spike rescue Lindsey from a suburban hell dimension; Lorne and Eve are pursued by a representative of the senior partners; and Wesley consoles Illyria, who hates her new world.

Director: Skip Schoolnik

Writer: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft

As Angel and Hamilton urge Wesley to get rid of Illyria, she suffers a cataclysmic physical breakdown; and Gunn clashes with Angel over the enforcement of an evil demon contract.

Director: Vern Gillum

Writer: Ben Edlund

Everyone, including Buffy Summers, is out to get Faith, and Angel is the only man who can stop them.

Director: Michael Lange

Writer: Tim Minear, Joss Whedon

Angel's friends are affected by a man with the power to make other men brutalise women.

Director: David Grossman

Writer: Tim Minear, Jeffrey Bell

After being menaced by a series of gruesome ghosts no one else can see, Spike finally comes face to face with the spectral being who's been trying to drag him into hell.

Director: Steven S. DeKnight

Writer: Steven S. DeKnight

Doyle is presented with an opportunity for atonement when a band of frightened refugees seek his help.

Director: Tucker Gates

Writer: Tim Minear, Howard Gordon

Rogue slayer Faith comes to town, and when she partners up with Wolfram and Hart, Angel's life is in danger.

Director: James A. Contner

Writer: Jim Kouf

In the 1950s, Angel aids a woman hiding from her past inside a hotel with a long history of death and mayhem. Meanwhile, in the present day, Angel and his colleagues hunt down a demon responsible for the carnage.

Director: David Semel

Writer: Tim Minear

Lorne's spell to restore Cordelia's memory backfires and convinces everyone they're high school students who have been gathered to kill a vampire: Angel.

Director: Joss Whedon

Writer: Joss Whedon