DVDs of the television show Angel were produced by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 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.
| DVD | Original release date | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Region 1 | Region 2 | ||
| February 11, 2003 | December 10, 2001 | ||
| September 2, 2003 | April 15, 2002 | ||
| February 10, 2004 | March 3, 2003 | ||
| September 7, 2004 | March 1, 2004 | ||
| February 15, 2005 | February 21, 2005 | ||
The Angel DVD sets were released in at least three encoding formats:
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.
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.
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.
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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.