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The page lists the contents of all of the DVD sets of Angel (the television series), Seasons 1-5, for Region 1 - North America. For more information on both the series Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the individual episodes, the Buffyworld site http://www.buffyworld.com is recommended. To purchase these DVD sets online, try http://www.amazon.com (Region 1) or http://www.amazon.co.uk (Region 2). You won't find any copies of the copyrighted DVD contents or any high-quality images of the cover art here.

The DVD Set contents differ by region of release (e.g., Region 1 = North America, Region 2 = Europe ...). For more information, see Regional Differences.

General information on the DVD set contents, Some Statistics, About Commentaries

Complete content index table

Index table by disc (Images from Region 1 DVD sets, Region 2 UK box covers on the right):

	ANGEL_S1_D1	ANGEL_S1_D2	ANGELS1D3	ANGEL_S2_D4	ANGELS1D5	ANGEL_S1_D6
	ANGELS2D1	ANGELS2D2	ANGELS2D3	ANGELS2D4	ANGEL_S2_D5	ANGEL_S2D6
	ANGEL_S3_D1	ANGEL_S3_D2	ANGEL_S3_D3	ANGEL_S3_D4	ANGEL_S3_D5	ANGEL_S3_D6
	ANGELS4_D1	ANGEL_S4_D2	ANGEL_S4_D3	ANGEL_S4_D4	ANGELS4_D5	ANGELS4_D6
	ANGEL_S5_D1	ANGEL_S5_D2	ANGEL_S5_D3	ANGEL_S5_D4	ANGEL_S5D5	ANGEL_S5D6

General Information on DVD Set Contents

• Boxes contain 6 DVDs with 3 or 4 episodes each, for a total of 22 episodes per season.
• Region 1 packaging consists of an internal DVD holder which slides out of the external box cover, and flips open into 7 panels. See photo at the top of this page of the box covers and DVD holders folded out for all seasons.
• The last panel holds an episode listing booklet and some promotional material from Fox Video. No other extras are included, such as posters, charts or photographs.
• Average episode length is 42 - 43 minutes, but they vary from about 41 to 44 minutes. Times do not include the omitted "Previously on Angel..." segment in Region 1. The difference to 60 minutes was made up by commercials when they aired.
• Episodes include the opening credits, closing credits, Mutant Enemy credit, and 20th Century Fox credit in the run time (about 90 seconds). The DVCC credit is added on as a separate clip on DVD.
• Region 1 sets do not include the "Previously on Angel…" segment before each episode.
• Video format in Region 1 is NTSC, 4:3 aspect ratio in Season 1, 16:9 aspect ratio in Seasons 2-5.
• Soundtracks are AC3 2-channel with Dolby Surround encoding (not Dolby Digital 5.1).
• Episode soundtracks in Region 1 are English, French and Spanish. Soundtrack on extras is English only. Subtitles are available in English and Spanish in all seasons.
• Most discs include some extras, including episode commentaries by writers/director/actors, original scripts, cast biographies, still photo galleries, and special "featurettes" on topics such as season storylines, costumes, set design, stunts etc.
• No Angel discs to date have computer DVD-ROM features.
• There are no hidden "Easter Eggs" on the Angel DVD sets.
• Script text in Seasons 1 and 2 is provided in video form only, not computer-readable format.
• The disc naming scheme and internal menu file structures are inconsistent, even within a season (see the disc names in the table above).
• In these tables, episode names and other content titles are given as they appear on the DVDs. Sometimes they appear in slightly different form elsewhere.

Regional Differences

• Region 2 DVD sets are generally released about 12 months before the equivalent Region 1 DVD sets. This is to allow the episodes a longer run in syndication in the USA before they become available on DVD.
• Video format in Region 2 is PAL.
• The video is speeded up by 4% on the PAL discs as an easy way to make the frame rate match properly. This has the unfortunate side effect of raising the sound pitch by 4% as well.

Some Statistics

• Season 1:
  - 22 episodes averaging 42:50 in length
  - 2 commentaries
  - 29:14 of video extras
  - 3 text features, 1 art gallery
• Season 2:
  - 22 episodes averaging 42:35 in length
  - 2 commentaries
  - 51:04 of video extras
  - 2 text features, 1 art gallery
• Season 3:
  - 22 episodes averaging 42:49 in length
  - 3 commentaries
  - 1:18:32 of video extras
  - 1 photo gallery
• Season 4:
  - 22 episodes averaging 42:33 in length
  - 7 commentaries
  - 1:08:48 of video extras
  - no text features or photo gallery
• Season 5:
  - 22 episodes averaging 43:12 in length
  - 7 commentaries
  - 1:10:43 of video extras
  - no text features or photo gallery
• The above statistics are for Region 1; the other regions may differ slightly.
• The longest episode so far is City of in Season 1, at 44:27. The shortest episode is The Prodigal in Season 1, at 40:22.
• The average length of episodes stayed about the same, approximately matching the later years of BtVS.
• Note that the average episode length went up slightly in the final year - this was due to the network's directive to cut back on story arcs requiring "Previously on..." explanations.
• The longest extra feature is the Season 4 Overview on Season 4 Disc 6, at 39:08.
• The DVD set with the most extra content is Season 5 (just barely beating Season 4), with 7 commentaries and just over 1 hour and 10 minutes of video extras. However the Angel DVD sets are sparse compared to BtVS - Seasons 4 alone of BtVS has 7 commentaries, compared to 7 in all of Angel Seasons 1 - 3. BtVS Season 6 alone has more total run time of video extras than all of Angel Seasons 1 - 3.
• Disc 3 and disc 6 in each set have only 3 episodes instead of 4, and have most of the extras. One disc in each season 1-4 set has no extra content.

About Commentaries

Commentaries are usually by the writers of the episodes, and occasionally by the director, or sometimes both together. No cast members participated in the commentaries on the Angel DVD sets in the first 3 seasons, but in Season 4 there are commentaries from Andy Hallett and Alexis Denisof, and several more in Season 5. Usually the writer's commentary is the most interesting, partly because they are very verbal people, and partly because they were closely involved in the development of the story from initial concept to final production. Director's commentaries are usually not as interesting, partly because they are visually-oriented people and not as verbal, and partly because they were only involved in the final stage of the story production. The commentaries seem to be done with little preparation, and the sound is difficult for the commentator to hear, a problem which they frequently mention in the commentaries.

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