The fourth wall is the imaginary invisible wall at the front of a stage or camera, through which the audience sees the action playing out. The fourth wall is “broken” in Buffy and Angel - in the musical Once More. With Feeling, Buffy, Xander and Anya sing whilst looking at …

The first and only time we see Cordelia’s parents is in Supersymmetry. They can be seen in one of the pictures that Cordelia hangs up to help her remember who is who.

The title of the season four Angel episode Slouching Toward Bethlehem comes from the poem ‘The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats, first printed in 1920. The poem is as follows:

The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere …

At Lorne’s show in Las Vegas in The House Always Wins, Buffy and Angel writer David Fury can be seen in the front row, with a bobblehead Kelly Manners.

Andy Hallett (Lorne) is credited as “Special Guest Star Andy Hallett” in the episode The House Always Wins. From this point on, Andy appears in every episode of Angel.

The Beast was a huge demon who was constructed entirely from rock. It had two distinct curved horns and bright yellow eyes. Cordelia began to see visions of The Beast, who eventually clawed it’s way up through the Earth, emerging at the very spot where Connor was born. The Beast …

Oliver Seidel was a noted Physics professor who first got Fred interested in the subject. He introduced his past student when she gave a presentation for the Physics Institute on Supersymmetry. However, Fred discovered her idol was not all he seemed. Jealous of his gifted students, he had researched portals, …

Lee DeMarco was the owner of The Tropicana casino in Las Vegas. Once a second-rate lounge magician, he got hold of a mystical item which he used to extract futures and destinies from players at his casine, which he then sold on the Black Market. He took Lorne captive and …

Alexa Davalos played Gwen Raiden in the Angel episodes Ground State, A Long Day’s Journey and Players. Of Greek descent, she was born in France on May 28, 1982. She started out as a model, before appearing in the HBO TV film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, with Anthony …

Gwen Raiden as a child had extraordinary electrical powers which made her unable to touch humans without giving them electric shocks. Unable to cope, her parents offered a generous donation to a school to take her to deal with her unusual and dangerous talents. As she grew older, Gwen …

In Deep Down, Angel says, “…three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M. C. Esher perspective - but I did get time to think.” Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898 – 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist known for his mathematically inspired, seemingly impossibly constructed works such …

Angel says to Connor in Deep Down, “What you did to me - was unbelievable, Connor. - But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective.” He’s referring to the Buffy …

Illyria was one of the legendary Old Ones - an original pure demon who ruled from her citadel (Vahla ha’nesh) in modern day Los Angeles. She was murdered by rivals and her corpse was placed in stone sarcophagus, with her powers drained and placed in jewels embedded on her coffin. …

Although Wesley appears in the episode Forgiving, he does not speak due to the injuries to his throat in Sleep Tight.

Though she’s credited, Charisma Carpenter does not appear in the episode Loyalty.