The Complete Buffy and Angel Viewing Order

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Discover all the ways to watch Buffy and Angel at the same time

Co-authored by Amy Bobinger, BA

Last Updated: May 22, 2026 Fact Checked

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Recommended Order

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Release Order

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Alternating Episodes

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Alternating Seasons

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Where to Watch

Whether you’re brand-new to the Buffyverse or you’re coming back for a rewatch, you might be wondering the best way to watch Buffy and Angel at the same time. The shows aired concurrently for 4 seasons, and there are a number of crossover episodes and overlapping references. We’re breaking down the very best way to watch these shows—but if that’s too complicated, we’re also sharing the original release order and a simplified alternating watch order.

What’s the best way to watch Buffy & Angel?

The best way to watch Buffy and Angel is by lining up the crossover episodes and multi-part episodes in a complicated (but gratifying) back-and-forth order. If you’re looking for something simpler, just alternate episodes of the overlapping seasons. Here’s how:

Buffy Seasons 1–3
Buffy Season 4; Angel Season 1 (alternating episodes)
Buffy Season 5; Angel Season 2 (alternating episodes)
Buffy Season 6; Angel Season 3 (alternating episodes)
Buffy Season 7; Angel Season 4 (alternating episodes)
Angel Season 5

Section 1 of 5:

Crossover Watch Order (Recommended)

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Use this watch order to get the best out of both shows. This watch order can feel a little complicated—there’s a lot of jumping back and forth—but it’s worth it. It’s the best way to line up crossover episodes, and multi-episode storylines get the full attention they deserve. It’s perfect for brand-new viewers and die-hard Buffy fans alike. Here’s what we recommend (a * indicates a crossover):^{[1]
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- Buffy Seasons 1–3
- Buffy Season 4 // Angel Season 1
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 1 (“The Freshman”) *
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 1 (“City of…”) *
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 2 (“Lonely Hearts”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 2 (“Living Conditions”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 3 (“The Harsh Light of Day”) *
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 3 (“In the Dark”) *
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 4 (“I Fall to Pieces”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 4 (“Fear Itself”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 5 (“Beer Bad”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 5 (“Rm w/ a Vu”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 6 (“Sense and Sensitivity”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 6 (“Wild at Heart”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 7 (“The Initiative”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 7 (“The Bachelor Party”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 8 (“Pangs”)*
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 8 (“I Will Remember You”) *
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 9 (“Hero”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 10 (“Parting Gifts”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 9 (“Something Blue”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 10 (“Hush”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 11 (“Doomed”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 11 (“Somnambulist”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 12 (“Expecting”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 13 (“She”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 12 (“A New Man”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 13 (“The I In Team”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 14 (“Goodbye Iowa”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 14 (“I’ve Got You Under My Skin”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 15 (“The Prodigal”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 15 (“This Year’s Girl”) *
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 16 (“Who Are You?”) *
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 17 (“Superstar”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 16 (“The Ring”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 17 (“Eternity”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 18 (“Where the Wild Things Are”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 19 (“New Moon Rising”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 18 (“Five By Five”) *
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 19 (“Sanctuary”) *
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 20 (“The Yoko Factor”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 21 (“Primeval”)
  - Buffy Season 4; Episode 22 (“Restless”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 20 (“War Zone”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 21 (“Blind Date”)
  - Angel Season 1; Episode 22 (“To Shanshu in LA”)
- Buffy Season 5 // Angel Season 2
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 1 (“Judgement”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 2 (“Are You Now or Have You Ever Been”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 3 (“First Impressions”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 1 (“Buffy vs. Dracula”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 2 (“Real Me”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 3 (“The Replacement”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 4 (“Untouched”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 5 (“Dear Boy”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 6 (“Guise Will Be Guise”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 4 (“Out of My Mind”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 5 (“No Place Like Home”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 6 (“Family”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 7 (“Fool for Love”) *
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 7 (“Darla”) *
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 8 (“The Shroud of Rahmon”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 8 (“Shadow”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 9 (“Listening to Fear”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 10 (“Into the Woods”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 9 (“The Trial”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 10 (“Reunion”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 11 (“Redefinition”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 11 (“Triangle”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 12 (“Checkpoint”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 12 (“Blood Money”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 13 (“Happy Anniversary”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 13 (“Blood Ties”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 14 (“Crush”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 14 (“The Thin Dead Line”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 15 (“Reprise”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 16 (“Epiphany”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 15 (“I Was Made to Love You”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 16 (“The Body”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 17 (“Forever”) *
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 18 (“Intervention”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 17 (“Disharmony”) *
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 18 (“Dead End”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 19 (“Tough Love”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 20 (“Spiral”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 21 (“The Weight of the World”)
  - Buffy Season 5; Episode 22 (“The Gift”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 19 (“Belonging”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 20 (“Over the Rainbow”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 21 (“Through the Looking Glass”)
  - Angel Season 2; Episode 22 (“There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb”) *
- Buffy Season 6 // Angel Season 3
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 1 (“Heartthrob”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 2 (“That Vision Thing”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 3 (“That Old Gang of Mine”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 1 (“Bargaining: Part 1”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 2 (“Bargaining: Part 2”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 3 (“After Life”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 4 (“Carpe Notem”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 4 (“Flooded”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 5 (“Life Serial”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 5 (“Fredless”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 6 (“Billy”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 6 (“All the Way”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 7 (“Once More, with Feeling”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 8 (”Tabula Rasa”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 7 (“Offspring”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 8 (“Quickening”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 9 (“Lullaby”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 10 (“Dad”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 9 (“Smashed”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 10 (“Wrecked”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 11 (“Gone”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 11 (“Birthday”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 12 (“Provider”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 12 (“Doublemeat Palace”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 13 (“Dead Things”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 13 (“Waiting in the Wings”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 14 (“Couplet”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 14 (“Older and Far Away”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 15 (“As You Were”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 15 (“Loyalty”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 16 (“Sleep Tight”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 17 (“Forgiving”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 18 (“Double or Nothing”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 16 (“Hell’s Bells”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 17 (“Normal Again”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 18 (“Entropy”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 19 (“The Price”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 20 (“A New World”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 21 (“Benediction”)
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 22 (“Tomorrow”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 19 (“Seeing Red”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 20 (“Villains”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 21 (“Two to Go”)
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 22 (“Grave”)
- Buffy Season 7 // Angel Season 4
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 1 (“Lessons”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 2 (“Beneath You”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 3 (“Same Time, Same Place”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 1 (“Deep Down”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 2 (“Ground State”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 3 (“The House Always Wins”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 4 (“Slouching Toward Bethlehem”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 4 (“Help”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 5 (“Selfless”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 6 (“Him”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 5 (“Supersymmetry”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 6 (“Spin the Bottle”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 7 (“Conversations with Dead People”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 8 (“Sleeper”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 9 (“Never Leave Me”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 10 (“Bring on the Night”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 11 (“Showtime”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 7 (“Apocalypse, Nowish”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 8 (“Habeas Corpses”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 12 (“Potential”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 13 (“The Killer in Me”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 14 (“First Date”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 9 (“Long Day’s Journey”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 10 (“Awakening”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 11 (“Soulless”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 12 (“Calvary”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 13 (“Salvage”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 15 (“Get It Done”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 16 (“Storyteller”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 17 (“Lies My Parents Told Me”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 14 (“Release”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 15 (“Orpheus”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 16 (“Players”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 17 (“Inside Out”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 18 (“Shiny Happy People”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 18 (“Dirty Girls”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 19 (“Empty Places”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 19 (“The Magic Bullet”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 20 (“Sacrifice”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 21 (“Peace out”)
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 22 (“Home”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 20 (“Touched”)
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 21 (“End of Days”) *
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 22 (“Chosen”) *
- Angel Season 5

Section 2 of 5:

Chronological Airing Order

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Follow the chronological order to recreate the original airing experience. Buffy and Angel ran simultaneously for 4 seasons, with new episodes of each show usually airing back-to-back on the same night. But at some point, Buffy moved to a different network, and some episodes aired out of order—so following this order isn’t perfect, and on top of that, it’s not much easier than the one we recommended above. Still, if it’s what you’re after, here’s the chronological release order of Buffy and Angel.^{[2]
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- Buffy Seasons 1–3
- Buffy Season 4 // Angel Season 1: Alternate episodes for both shows through the end of each season, starting with Buffy (e.g., Buffy S4E1, Angel S1E1, Buffy S4E2, Angel S1E2, etc.).
- Buffy S5 // Angel S2: Alternate episodes for both shows through the end of each season, starting with Buffy (e.g., Buffy S5E1, Angel S2E1, Buffy S5E2, Angel S2E2, etc.).
- Buffy Season 6 // Angel Season 3: Follow this order for the season:
  - Angel Season 3; Episodes 1–2
  - Buffy Season 6; Episodes 1–2
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 3
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 3
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 4
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 4
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 5
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 5
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 6
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 6
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 7
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 7
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 8
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 8
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 9
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 9
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 10
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 10
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 11
  - Angel Season 3; Episodes 11–12
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 12
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 13
  - Buffy Season 6; Episodes 13–14
  - Angel Season 3; Episodes 14–15
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 15
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 16
  - Buffy Season 6; Episodes 16–17
  - Angel Season 3; Episodes 17–19
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 18
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 20
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 19
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 21
  - Buffy Season 6; Episode 20
  - Angel Season 3; Episode 22
  - Buffy Season 6; Episodes 21–22
- Buffy Season 7 // Angel Season 4: Follow this order for the season:
  - Buffy Season 7; Episodes 1–2
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 1
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 3
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 2
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 4
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 3
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 5
  - Angel: Season 4; Episodes 4–5
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 6
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 6
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 7
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 7
  - Buffy Season 7; Episodes 8–11
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 8
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 12
  - Angel Season 4; Episodes 9–10
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 13
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 11
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 14
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 12
  - Buffy Season 7; Episodes 15–16
  - Angel Season 4; Episodes 13–15
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 17 (this original air date of this episode was delayed, but it was intended to air as a crossover episode before Angel S4E15)
  - Angel Season 4; Episodes 16–18
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 18
  - Angel Season 4; Episodes 19–20
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 19
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 21
  - Buffy Season 7; Episode 20
  - Angel Season 4; Episode 22
  - Buffy Season 7; Episodes 21–22
- Angel Season 5

Section 3 of 5:

Alternating Episodes Watch Order

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Alternate episodes of the overlapping seasons. If you don’t want to try to remember a complicated watch order but you still want to get the general crossover experience, alternate one episode of Buffy followed by one episode of Angel for each of the 4 overlapping seasons. The crossovers won’t always line up perfectly, and there are a few multi-part storylines that will get broken up, but it’s easier to keep up with.^{[3]
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- Buffy Seasons 1–3
- Buffy Season 4; Angel Season 1 (alternating episodes)
- Buffy Season 5; Angel Season 2 (alternating episodes)
- Buffy Season 6; Angel Season 3 (alternating episodes)
- Buffy Season 7; Angel Season 4 (alternating episodes)
- Angel Season 5

Section 4 of 5:

Alternating Seasons Watch Order

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This is perfect for a casual watch. If you just want to get a general sense of how the storylines overlap, but you’re not overly invested in the crossovers (or you’ve already seen them and you’re just looking for a refresher), just alternate the seasons. You’ll lose some of the emotional impact, and there may be a few spoilers, but it’s the easiest way to go:
- Buffy Seasons 1–4
- Angel Season 1
- Buffy Season 5
- Angel Season 2
- Buffy Season 6
- Angel Season 3
- Buffy Season 7
- Angel Seasons 4–5

Section 5 of 5:

Where to Watch Buffy & Angel

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Ready to get started? We don’t blame you! Streaming platforms are subject to change, but as of April 2026, you can stream all of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel on Hulu.
- Disney+ also reportedly offers the shows in some regions.
- You can also purchase both series on Amazon Prime.