The rich world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was destined to result in a spin-off, and in 1999 that materialized in the form of Angel. The David Boreanaz series premiered alongside Buffy's fourth season and ended up outliving its mothership, running for five seasons until 2004, a year after the Slayer wrapped up her own seven-year saga. During the time both shows were on the air, the heroes of Sunnydale and Los Angeles crossed over on multiple occasions.

Excluding any Angel episodes in which former Buffy characters play main or major roles — like Darla in Season 2 and Spike and Harmony in Season 5 — there are 15 episodes of both series in which characters from one show cross over into the other. From those that only involve brief cameos to much more ambitious undertakings that changed the characters forever, here is every Buffyverse crossover episode, ranked from worst to best.

Buffy Summers might have her name in the title, but she is far from the only Slayer staking vampires in the Buffyverse.

As an Angel episode, "The Girl in Question" isn't bad, thanks to its comedic exploration of Angel and Spike's love/hate relationship, as they head off on a road trip to Rome. However, it is a disappointing crossover. For starters, it handles the character of Buffy — who only appears briefly via a stand-in — questionably, as she is treated like a prize for her two vampire exes to fight over.

In response to fan backlash, a Buffy Season 8 comic later retconned the Buffy glimpsed in this episode as another Slayer who merely resembles her.

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