High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Ring" is episode 16 of season 1 in the television show Angel. Written by Howard Gordon and directed by Nick Marck, it was originally broadcast on February 29, 2000 on the WB television network. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup for a Series. In this episode, Angel is captured and enslaved in a fighting club, and must fight his way to freedom, or rely on Cordelia Chase and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce to save him.