Spike calls Buffy “Betty” in Superstar, either to tease her or because he might not know her name (since she gets so little limelight in the Jonathan-centric alternative universe). Given his special interest in hunting Slayers, however, one could certainly argue Spike knows her name and is razzing her. In …

All of the TV shows Spike watches or references are soap operas: Passions, Dawson’s Creek, and Falconcrest.

Jenny Mollen played Nina in season five of Angel. Born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1979, Jenny attended UCLA’s school of theatre, film, and television. While at UCLA, she wrote and produced a one woman show called Not A Pretty Girl. She has also studied and lived in Paris, France and …

Nina was attacked by a werewolf whilst out jogging, in the Angel episode Unleashed. She managed to escape but had been bitten, and so became a werewolf herself. Angel found her before she attacked her niece, and kept safe at Wolfram & Hart. She bonded with Angel as they both …

Lorne says to Wesley and Fred in A Hole in the World, “Get a balcony you two, eh?” This is most likely a reference to the famous balcony scene in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.

Many of the main Angel cast have been killed or near death. Angel was killed and vamped in 1753; Doyle was killed in Hero; Gunn was electrocuted by Gwen and revived in Ground State; Wesley’s throat was slashed in Sleep Tight, he was shot in The Thin Dead Line and …

Wesley likes to attack the women in his life with axes - in Billy, he chased after Fred with an axe; he beheaded Lilah with one in Calvary; and attempted to kill Illyria with one in Shells.

In Underneath, Spike says of the Camaro, “You never heard of Knight Rider? Knight 2000? K.I.T.T.?” He’s referring to Kinght Rider, an Eighties TV show starring David Hasselhof, which featured his car with artificial intelligence.

The tunnel to Lindsey’s suburban hell dimension in Underneath is the same tunnel which served as the entrance to Toon Town in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?.

In Underneath, when Angel is talking to Spike about how he should have never let Fred leave Pylea, he says, “bad things always happen here”. Fred said the same line when referring to Pylea in Through The Looking Glass.

In Tome Bomb, Gunn says, “This place just went Poseidon on my ass. I don’t know which way is up.” He’s referring to the movie The Poseidon Adventure in which a passenger ship capsizes upside down.

David Greenwalt left Angel at the end of season three, but returned in the final season to direct the episode The Girl in Question.

In Power Play, Illyria and Spike have the following conversation, in which Spike suggests that his and Angel’s relationship may have been more than we thought:

Illyria: “You’ll have proof soon enough. A corrupted ruler on such a path sees
treachery and betrayal all around him. He cannot suffer intimates …

Lilah Morgan survives two Wolfram & Hart massacres - when locked in a cellar with Darla and Drusilla and by The Beast in Habeas Corpses.

Vladimir Kulich played The Beast during season four of Angel. Born in Prague, he began his acting career at the State Theatre of Czechoslovakia. Kulich speaks several languages fluently. He moved to to Canada and then the US, where he was cast in guest-starring television and feature roles. His most …