Douglas Mackinnon
Douglas Mackinnon is a Scottish film and television director. His work includes Good Omens, Doctor Who, Line of Duty, and Sherlock.
Works
Good Omens: Lockdown
Aziraphale and Crowley talk over the phone about how they're dealing with the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Release Date:2020-05-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:25
Good Omens
Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces in order to prevent Armageddon. They attempt to raise the Antichrist in a balanced and human way, but are they focusing their efforts in the right direction?
Release Date:2019-05-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:2042
Knightfall
Go deep into the clandestine world of the legendary brotherhood of warrior monks known as The Knights Templar.
Release Date:2017-12-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:326
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
A comedic thriller that follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic” detective Dirk Gently and his reluctant assistant Todd. An adaptation of Douglas Adams’ wildly successful comic novels.
Release Date:2016-10-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:788
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.
Release Date:2016-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2257
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time.
Release Date:2015-12-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:155
Doctor Who Extra
Doctor Who Extra brings you unprecedented access to the making of Doctor Who... Featuring interviews with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, it's the ultimate backstage pass!
Release Date:2014-08-23
Character:Self
Episode Count:2
Outlander
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Release Date:2014-08-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:2631
Doctor Who - Night and The Doctor: Last Night
The Doctor's first date with River has gotten more than a little complicated. With three versions of her in the TARDIS, it takes two of him to sort matters.
Release Date:2012-11-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Doctor Who - Night and the Doctor: First Night
The night River Song is imprisoned in Stormcage for killing the Eleventh Doctor, she receives a visit from her husband to take her out on their first date. Things get complicated when another River arrives.
Release Date:2012-11-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Line of Duty
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Release Date:2012-06-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:418
Sherlock
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Release Date:2010-07-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:5622
Happy Hollidays
Sitcom set on a precarious caravan campsite which strives to represent the best of the great British holiday - less palm trees and pina coladas and more puggymachines and lukewarm pints. Owner Colin Holliday promotes himself as a standard bearer for the virtues of the old-fashioned British holiday but in reality his true interest lies in wringing as great a profit from his holidaymakers as possible. Days on the caravan site are spent doing what Colin sees as the essential tasks of the hospitality business - driving costs down and avoiding difficult customers. The staff on the park include alcoholic entertainer Joyce 'the voice' Mullen; trainee manager and ladies man Dean Bullock; and Debbi, the bar maid.
Release Date:2009-09-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:1
Jekyll
Tom Jackman is learning to cope with his alter ego, the dark and mysterious Hyde, who threatens his life and family. They also have to live in the same body while on the run from a mysterious organization that is hunting them.
Release Date:2007-06-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:93
Robin Hood
An updated series following the life of Robin Hood and his Merry Men in Sherwood forest. Together they steal from the rich and give to the poor - all the while avoiding their enemies Sir Guy of Gisborne and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Release Date:2006-10-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:107
The Flying Scotsman
Based on the incredible true story of amateur cyclist Graeme Obree, who breaks the world one-hour record on a bike he made out of washing machine parts.
Release Date:2006-08-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:65
Doctor Who
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
Release Date:2005-03-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:7
Vote Count:3069
Murder in Suburbia
Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005. Detective Inspector Kate Ashurst, a graduate of a posh girls' academy, has a sharp, analytical mind; her working-class partner, Detective Sergeant Emma Scribbins, relies on her instincts. Together this sassy, sexy investigative team uncovers the dark urges behind suburban Middleford's placid façade.
Release Date:2004-03-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:11
Gifted
Jamie Gilliam is a bright young rising star with Castlefield City, a first division club on the verge of promotion to the premiership. When lapdancing student Sharon goes out to a club with friends she bumps into him and ends up going back to his place. She wakes up the next day feeling ill and not being able to remember how she got naked in his bed. When she later goes to the police charging rape no-one believes her and the club settles with her privately to keep her quiet. But is Jamie as clean cut as he appears?
Release Date:2003-10-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Last Detective
"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.
Release Date:2003-02-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:8
A Good Thief
Rita witnesses a murder, and believing she and her family are now in danger, she goes on the run with her daughter Leah and her elderly neighbour Lizzie. In hiding from the police and the villains, Rita resorts to shoplifting in order to survive.
Release Date:2002-07-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Gentlemen's Relish
The career of the once successful classical portraitist, Kingdom Swann, has hit bad times. When a leading gallery rejects his work, he seems at the point of giving up. It is only the support of his housekeeper, Violet Askey, that keeps him going and it is she who encourages him to switch to photography. Soon Swann has developed a healthy (and respectable) business with portraits of naked women in classical and exotic settings. However, the nature of Swann's new work is open to misinterpretation and he finds himself at the centre of a scandal involving the misuse of his pictures by a SOHO pornographer, and the focus of a campaign by suffragettes against the expoitation of women. At the same time, he loses the support of the loyal Violet, who leaps to the wrong conclusion about Swann's relationship with one of his models. When Violet then becomes involved in the suffragette and amti-pornography movements, it seems all may be lost for Swann - both professionally...and personally.
Release Date:2001-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
The Vice
The Vice is an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police Vice Unit. It ran for five short series between 1999 and 2003. It tells the story of the London Metropolitan police force's vice squad, where prostitution, underage sex, and other such organized crime are regular occurrences. Most episodes end in such a way where the main villain is caught but often not in a 'naturally' concluded way that you would expect with other TV dramas, and often ending an episode with more questions unanswered than answered. The small dedicated team is led by Detective Inspector Pat Chappel who struggles to manage the balance between his home life and his work life - as do the other members of the team. Working in the seedy underworld leads to a continual dilemma for the team - the tension between the Vice Squad and the vice-related crimes that they investigate runs throughout the series and gives the show a rich viewing experience. The programme often blurs the line of the team staying on the right side of the law, as almost every member of the team at different points submits briefly or permanently to the temptations of either sex, drugs, money or honey traps. Sometimes with drastic consequences.
Release Date:1999-01-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:5
The Grand
The Grand is a British television drama series first broadcast on ITV in 1997–1998. It was written by Russell T Davies and set in a hotel in Manchester in the 1920s. There are two series: eight episodes in the first series were broadcast from 4 April 1997 to 23 May 1997 and ten in the second series from 30 January 1998 to 3 April 1998. All 18 episodes were written by Russell T Davies. The cast included Susan Hampshire, Julia St. John, Tim Healy, Michael Siberry, Stephen Moyer and Mark McGann. The two series were novelised by Catrin Collier, under the pen name Katherine Hardy.
Release Date:1997-04-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:4
Silent Witness
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
Release Date:1996-02-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:94
Backup
Drama about the working lives of policemen and women in an Operational Support Unit.
Release Date:1995-09-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Vision
Set in 1847 in the Highlands of Scotland. In a remote village the people depend on their faith for survival during the potato famine. One man has different ideas.
Release Date:1993-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
The Bill
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
Release Date:1984-10-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:38
Anansi Boys
Charlie Nancy is a young man who is used to being embarrassed by his estranged father. But when his father dies, Charlie discovers that his father was Anansi: trickster god of stories. And he learns that he has a brother. Now his brother, Spider, is entering Charlie’s life, determined to make it more interesting but making it a lot more dangerous.
Department:Creator
Job:Creator