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Angel (series)

Angel
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Genre Supernatural drama
Action
Horror
Fantasy
Created by Joss Whedon
David Greenwalt
Starring David Boreanaz
Charisma Carpenter
Glenn Quinn
Alexis Denisof
J. August Richards
Amy Acker
Vincent Kartheiser
Andy Hallett
James Marsters
Mercedes McNab
Theme music composer Darling Violetta
Composer(s) Christophe Beck
Robert J. Kral
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 5
No. of episodes 110 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Joss Whedon
David Greenwalt
Tim Minear
Jeffrey Bell
David Fury
Fran Rubel Kuzui
Kaz Kuzui
Running time 41–45 minutes
Production company(s) Mutant Enemy Productions
Greenwolf Corp (season 1)
David Greenwalt Productions (seasons 2-3)
Kuzui Enterprises
Sandollar Television
20th Century Fox Television
Distributor 20th Television
Release
Original network The WB
Picture format 480i (SDTV) 4:3 (Seasons 1–2, Season 2 is 16:9 on DVD release)
480i (SDTV) Letterboxed 16:9 (Seasons 3–4)
1080i (HDTV) 16:9 (Season 5)
Original release October 5, 1999 (1999-10-05) – May 19, 2004 (2004-05-19)
Chronology
Followed by Angel: After the Fall (comic book) (2007–11)
Related shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Angel is an American television series, a spin-off from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffy's creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt. It aired on The WB from October 5, 1999, to May 19, 2004, consisting of five seasons and 110 episodes. Like Buffy, it was produced by Whedon's production company, Mutant Enemy.

The show details the ongoing trials of Angel, a vampire whose human soul was restored to him by gypsies as a punishment for the murder of one of their own. After more than a century of murder and the torture of innocents, Angel's restored soul torments him with guilt and remorse. During the first four seasons of the show, he works as a private detective in Los Angeles, California, where he and a variety of associates work to "help the helpless", restoring the faith and saving the souls of those who have lost their way. Typically, this involves doing battle with evil demons or humans allied to them, primarily related to Wolfram & Hart, a law firm supported by occult practices which is an extension of otherworldly demonic forces. He must also battle his own demonic nature.

The series focuses around Angel (David Boreanaz), an Irish vampire who is over 200 years old. Angel was known as Angelus during his rampages across Europe, but was cursed with a soul, which gave him a conscience and guilt for centuries of murder and torture. He left Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the end of Season 3 to move to Los Angeles in search of redemption.

He soon finds himself assisted by Allen Francis Doyle (Glenn Quinn), another Irish character who is a half-human, half-demon who, although he comes across as a ne'er-do-well hustler, has a heroic side. Doyle serves to pass along the cryptic visions from The Powers That Be to Angel. They're soon joined by Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), also a previous cast member of Buffy. Formerly a popular high school cheerleader, Cordelia starts her tenure on the show as a vapid and shallow personality, but grows over the course of the series into a hero. Cordelia acquires Doyle's visions via a shared kiss prior to Doyle's death. With the death of Doyle in the early episodes of the show's first season, another character from the Buffy series makes the jump to its spin-off: Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Alexis Denisof) joins the team under the brave guise of "rogue demon hunter", acting as comic relief and initially not well-accepted. Over time, Wesley shows bravery and strength, as well as some cold blooded killing cruelty, like his colleague Rupert Giles, and grows into a leader.


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