List of Angel home video releases

DVDs of the television show Angel were produced by 20th Century Fox and released beginning in 2001. These sets contained not only the episodes, but extra features, such as: audio commentaries by the shows makers, documentary features, blooper reels, shooting scripts and so on.

Angel Complete Series DVD packaging.

Release dates
DVDOriginal release date
Region 1Region 2
The Complete First SeasonFebruary 11, 2003December 10, 2001
The Complete Second SeasonSeptember 2, 2003April 15, 2002
The Complete Third SeasonFebruary 10, 2004March 3, 2003
The Complete Fourth SeasonSeptember 7, 2004March 1, 2004
The Complete Fifth SeasonFebruary 15, 2005February 21, 2005

Differences between versions

The Angel DVD sets were released in at least three encoding formats:

  • Region 1 (United States and Canada), in NTSC format
  • Region 2 (United Kingdom and Europe), in PAL format
  • Region 4 (Australia and New Zealand), in PAL format

Unlike the Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs, the choice of widescreen versus standard screen does not vary by region. In all regions, season one of Angel is presented in the standard format (4:3), and seasons two through five are presented in widescreen (16:9). This matches the way the show itself was broadcast from seasons 3-5, although in the U.S. season 2 was presented as standard format but was changed to widescreen for the DVD. This change did lead to some issues on the season 2 DVD release, such as instances where objects that would have remained outside of the broadcast image on the standard format become apparent, creating evident mistakes (e.g. Angel's usually-invisible reflection being visible in the extremities of a number of shots in the first episode).

Aside from the region encoding (and the packaging), the Region 2 and Region 4 DVDs are identical. However, there are several content differences between the Region 1 DVDs and the Region 2 and 4 DVDs.

Scenes from previous episodes

The Region 2 and 4 DVDs (except Season 1) include the scenes from previous episodes ("Previously on Angel") at the beginning of each episode; the Region 1 DVDs do not, except in Season 5.

Subtitles

In the Region 2 and 4 releases, episodes with commentaries include two English subtitles: the show itself, and the commentary. The Region 1 releases do not offer subtitles for the commentaries.

The Region 1 DVDs also offer a smaller choice of non-English languages subtitles than the Region 2 and 4 DVDs.

Season 1

Disc 1

Episodes

Special features

Disc 2

Episodes

Special features

Disc 3

Episodes

Special features

  • Featurette: "Season 1"
  • Cast Bios
  • Still Gallery

Disc 4

Episodes

Disc 5

Episodes

Special features

  • Script for "Five by Five" and "Sanctuary"

Disc 6

Episodes

Special features

  • Featurette: "I'm Cordelia"
  • Featurette: "Introducing Angel"
  • Featurette: "The Demons"

Season 2

Disc 1

Episodes

Special features

  • Commentary on "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been" by writer Tim Minear

Disc 2

Episodes

Special features

  • Script for "Darla"

Disc 3

Episodes

Special features

  • Featurette: "Making up the Monsters"
  • Featurette: "Inside the Agency"
  • Still Gallery
  • Blue Prints

Disc 4

Episodes

Disc 5

Episodes

Special features

  • Script for "Disharmony"

Disc 6

Episodes

Special features

  • Commentary on "Over the Rainbow" by director Fred Keller
  • Featurette: "Stunts"
  • Featurette: "Season 2 Overview"

Season 3

Disc 1

Episodes

Disc 2

Episodes

Special features

Disc 3

Episodes

Special features

  • Commentary on "Lullaby" by writer/director Tim Minear and Mere Smith
  • Deleted scenes from "Birthday" with commentary by Tim Minear and Mere Smith
  • Featurette: "Darla: Deliver Us From Evil"
  • Angel Series Outtakes

Disc 4

Episodes

Special features

  • Commentary on "Waiting in the Wings" writer/director by Joss Whedon
  • Deleted scenes from "Waiting in the Wings" with commentary by Joss Whedon

Disc 5

Episodes

Disc 6

Episodes

Special features

Season 4

Disc 1

Episodes

Special features

Disc 2

Episodes

Special features

Disc 3

Episodes

Disc 4

Episodes

Special features

Disc 5

Episodes

Special features

Disc 6

Episodes

Special features

  • Commentary for "Home" by writer/director Tim Minear
  • Featurette: "Prophesies: Season Four Overview"
  • Unplugged: Season Four Outtakes"
  • Featurette: "Last Looks: The Hyperion Hotel"
  • Featurette: "Fatal Beauty and the Beast"
  • Featurette: "Malice In Wonderland: Wolfram & Hart"

Season 5

Disc 1

Episodes

Special features

  • Commentary on "Conviction" by writer/director Joss Whedon
  • "Hey Kids! It's Smile Time" featurette

Disc 2

Episodes

Special features

Disc 3

Episodes

Special features

Disc 4

Episodes

Special features

Disc 5

Episodes

Special features

Disc 6

Episodes

Special features

  • Commentary on "Not Fade Away" by co-writer/director Jeffrey Bell
  • Featurette: "Angel: The Final Season"
  • Featurette: "To Live & Die in L.A.: The Best of Angel"
  • Featurette: "Halos & Horns: Recurring Villainy"
  • Featurette: "Angel Unbound: The Gag Reels"

Collections

The complete series box set of Angel (seasons 1-5) was released in the UK on October 30, 2006. They have also been released in Australia, in 4 episode, half season, full season, and complete series box sets.

The Angel season box sets were also re-released in the UK at a lower price point and in cheaper plastic boxes. Seasons 1 and 2 were released on October 3, 2005; seasons 3 and 4 on March 6, 2006; and season 5 on May 8, 2006.

In Australia, Region 4, the first releases were released with each season as Part 1 and Part 2 'Collector's Edition' box sets where each part had 3 discs each, 3 Amaray Cases in a slip box. Season 1, Parts 1 & 2 were released on December 3, 2001. Season 2, Parts 1 & 2 on April 9, 2002. Season 3, Parts 1 & 2 on 18 March 2003. Season 4 Parts 1 & 2 on April 27, 2004. Season 5, Parts 1 & 2 on February 22, 2005. These releases were then later re-issued in Slimline sets so that each part was in a single plastic case, these were also 'Collector's Edition'. The first 'Complete Season' collections were in Amaray Fatpacks, released around September, 2005, which, and later reissued in slimline cases in 2006. The 'Complete Collection' boxset has been released several times, the first being a cardboard box released in 2006, the second was a collector's tin with 5 slimline cases on November 19, 2008.[1] The third being a slip box with 2 fatbox cases titled 'The Complete Series' released on November 22, 2013,[2] and the last version to date was in 2017, a slip box with 5 slimline cases.

The Region 1 Angel Collector's Set was released on October 30, 2007,[3] with a newly packaged re-release following on October 12, 2010.[4]

As with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Region 2 character-based releases, several Angel DVDs, based around individual characters have been released, under the banner "The Vampire Anthology." This collection includes DVDs themed around Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn and Fred.

See also

References
  • The DVD sets themselves

Release dates

Specific references
  1. "Angel - Season 1-5 - Collector's Edition | Boxset". Sanity. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  2. "Angel - The Complete Series". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-06-07. Retrieved 2010-10-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-09-14. Retrieved 2010-10-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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