Over three seasons, Breaking Bad, charting the rise (or fall, depending on how you look at it) of the well-meaning Jimmy McGill from conman doing good to sleazy criminal lawyer Saul Goodman, and so is full of connections and characters to the Walter White crime odyssey.

Obviously you have Bob Odenkirk in the lead and Jonathan Banks a series regular as Mike Ehrmantraut, and Season 3 has put a spotlight on the conflict between cartel faction leaders Gus Fring and Hector Salamanca, but that's far from the limit. Better Call Saul is chock full of Breaking Bad cameos; so many, in fact, that they're easy to miss. We count twenty-five overall, so here's a definitive breakdown of every single one.

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Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman

This one's obvious as it's his show, but for completion it's worth citing. We actually see Odenkirk's character in three different guises - mainly as Jimmy McGill slowly evolving into the Saul Goodman we know, but also him in hiding following the events of Breaking Bad as Gene, working in a Cinnabon.

While the show has finally seen him start using the Saul moniker (a play on the phrase "S'all good, man"), we're yet to see him use it for lawyering or bring in many of his close associates from the show. Two, however, have appeared.

sca Liddy

Saul Goodman's secretary in Breaking Bad, sa Liddy (Tina Parker) was a constant presence in his offices throughout the show. Although she definitely got more than she bargained for, she came out of the whole affair safe (and $25000 richer after getting money out of Walt for smashing down Saul's door).

Liddy returned in Better Call Saul Season 3 as the shared receptionist for Jimmy and Kim Wexler, hired by the former after a very brief interview for her can-do attitude. She's already started going above and beyond, helping Jimmy in his court case against brother Chuck, and at this point is one of the few close people to Jimmy who will stand by him.

Huell Babineaux

Everybody loves Huell (Lavell Crawford). He's one of the biggest (literally and figuratively) fan favorites from Breaking Bad. Introduced as Saul's bodyguard, he became a regular in the lawyer's schemes, remarkable for his size and opposite demeanour. While mostly harmless, Huell eventually is used by the DEA into giving up the location of Walt's millions.

Huell returned in Better Call Saul Season 3 as part of Jimmy's plan against Chuck. Hired through the same vet with criminal s that Mike uses to find jobs, the apparently deft enforcer planted a charged phone battery in the electromagnetic hypersensitivity sufferer's pocket. As he wasn't hired for full-time protection until Walt's scheming ramped up, it's unclear if we'll see him again before the show wraps up.

Mike Ehrmantraut

When it comes to Breaking Bad connections, most of these come through Mike Ehrmantraut and his increasing involvement with the Albuquerque crime scene. In the parent show, Mike was an associate of Saul but ultimate enforcer for Gus Fring, pragmatic muscle who clashed with Walt's power grabs.

Obviously through him experience the cartel story in Better Call Saul, but we also learn his tragic origins - he was a bent cop who learned to regret his past after his righteous son Matt was murdered.

Stacey and Kaylee Ehrmantraut

Mike's daughter-in-law and granddaughter are the main motivation in his life of crime. Stacey (Kerry Condon) and Kaylee only appeared briefly in Breaking Bad (the former appeared only once), but have been an essential part of Better Call Saul, with Mike trying hard to build a relationship with them after Matt's death. Due to the timeline, Kaylee has been recast for the prequel and actually played by two actresses in the show.

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Gus Fring

Although he was killed off a season before the end, there's no doubt that Gus Fring was the big villain of Breaking Bad, slowly revealed across three years as a criminal mastermind with a monstrous form lurking beneath his calm, procured exterior. He also has the best death of the series bar none.

After being earlier in his development, with the series detailing his conflict with the Salamancas and rise to dominance, something long since laid to rest by the time of Breaking Bad. What's interesting is that while we're seeing his expansion of Los Pollos Hermanos, it's underpinned with the knoweldge that his real plan is to overthrow his cartel overlords.

Victor and Tyrus

Victor (Jeremiah Bitsui) was in Breaking Bad for a good couple of seasons, serving as Gus' key right-hand man and handler for Walter, but is probably best ed for his box cutter death. He was replaced in the organization by Tyrus (Ray Campbell), who first tries to make meth himself before becoming Walt's overseer and generally helping his boss, who he dies alongside.

Both characters are present in Better Call Saul Season 3 as Gus' muscle, silently backing Fring up as Mike gets entangled in his world.

Barry Goodman

No relation to Saul, Barry Goodman (JB Blanc) is one of Gus' team south of the border. A doctor, he saves Gus and Mike after Fring's attack on the cartel in Breaking Bad Season 4, but with his massive collection of samples on both his patients and Jesse Pinkman clearly has some other hidden talents.

His Better Call Saul role is a little less involved, with him providing the package of cocaine that Mike uses to alert the border patrol to the Salamanca trucks.

Lydia Rodarte-Quayle

In Breaking Bad, it eventually emerged that Los Pollos Hermanos and the rest of Gus' operation was part of conglomerate Madrigal Electromotive GmbH who were - to some degree - enabling his drug business expansion. They came to the fore after his death, with Lydia Rodarte-Quayle (Laura Fraser) stepping up to try and set up a new sales avenue for Walt's meth and eventually turning onto the neo Nazis. She's eventually killed by Walt using the long-standing ricin MacGuffin.

Lydia made a very unexpected return in Better Call Saul Season 3 when she was seen scouting out a location for a potential meth lab and latter helping launder money for Mike, revealing that Fring was already working with Madrigal and planning to move his operation fully into the US.