Douglas Mackinnon
Douglas Mackinnon is a Scottish film and television director. His work includes Good Omens, Doctor Who, Line of Duty, and Sherlock.
Works
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 Date2014-08-23
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
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 Date2005-03-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count3398
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 Date2014-08-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count2926
Silent Witness
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.
Release Date1996-02-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count112
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 Date1984-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count46
Line of Duty
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Release Date2012-06-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count479
Good Omens
Aziraphale and Crowley, of Heaven and Hell respectively, have grown rather fond of the Earth. So it's terrible news that it's about to end. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing. The Four Horsemen are ready to ride. Everything is going according to the Divine Plan...except that someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Can our heroes find him and stop Armageddon before it's too late?
Release Date2019-05-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count2360
Robin Hood
Robin of Loxley returns to England after 5 years of fighting in the crusades alongside King Richard. After losing his estates and being branded an outlaw, he takes on the title of Robin Hood and assembles a ragtag band of outlaw companions. Together they steal from the rich and give to the poor - all the while avoiding and outwitting their enemies Sir Guy of Gisborne and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham.
Release Date2006-10-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count132
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 Date2016-10-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count918
The Vice
The Vice is an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police Vice Unit. Spanning five short series from 1999 and 2003, it follows the London Metropolitan police force's vice squad, where prostitution, underage sex, and such organised crime are regular occurrences. Most episodes end where the main villain is caught but often not in a 'naturally' concluded way expected from other TV dramas, and often ending with more unanswered questions than answered. Leader DI Pat Chappel struggles to manage the balance between his private and professional lives — as do the rest of the team. Working in the seedy underworld leads to a continual dilemma — the tension between the Vice Squad and vice-related crimes runs throughout the series and gives the show a rich viewing experience. The line of the team staying on the right side of the law is often blurred, as almost every member at different points submits briefly or permanently to the dubious temptations, sometimes with drastic consequences.
Release Date1999-01-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count8
Knightfall
Go deep into the clandestine world of the legendary brotherhood of warrior monks known as The Knights Templar.
Release Date2017-12-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count340
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.
Release Date2016-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2356
The Grand
The Grand is an ITV television drama series created and written by Russell T Davies and starring Rebecca Callard, Tim Healy, Susan Hampshire, Paul Warriner, and Mark McGann. Following WWI, the Bannerman family re-opens the Grand Hotel after a lengthy closure and a costly re-furbishing. The hotel has been in the family for a long time, and John Bannerman and his wife Sarah desperately want to make a go. Their son Stephen has returned from the wars without any physical harm but still suffers from the mental anguish of seeing so many of his comrades-in-arms falling on the battlefield. When they learn that their accountant has squandered what little money they had left, they must turn to John's brother Marcus, a successful businessman who has eschewed any interest in the hotel over the years but now seems ready to plunge into the business with both feet.
Release Date1997-04-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count7
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 Date2003-02-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count12
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 Date2007-06-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count103
Backup
Drama about the working lives of policemen and women in an Operational Support Unit.
Release Date1995-09-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
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 Date2004-03-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count19
The Ridge
Mia is fleeing addiction and leaving behind a professional life in tatters in Scotland. She accepts a wedding invitation from her estranged sister in New Zealand – only to find the would-be-bride dead upon arrival. Caught up in grief and pulled by a dark attraction to her late-sister's fiancé Ewan, Mia soon finds that familiarity among a small community breeds secrets and tensions, endangering the brittle fabric of the town itself.
Release Date2025-10-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count6
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 Date2006-08-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count79
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 Date2001-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
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 Date1993-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Seaforth
The story of the young Coinneach Odhar, as he was known then, who one day stumbles upon a seeing stone, which gives him the ability to see into the future. Now cursed with second sight, he is left to suffer the knowledge of every detail of his life and death.
Release Date2025-08-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Good Omens: Lockdown
Aziraphale and Crowley talk over the phone about how they're dealing with the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Release Date2020-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count26
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 Date2015-12-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count163
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 Date2009-09-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
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.
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
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 Date2002-07-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden
The funny side of a veteran nightclub comedy team with a long list of females conquests is poisoned during a live performance.
Release Date2007-05-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
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 Date2003-10-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Ashes
A young man must confront his family's past when he returns to his childhood home on the Isle of Skye for the funeral of his father.
Release Date1990-04-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2012-11-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
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 Date2012-11-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem & The Poison Sky
Martha Jones summons the Doctor back to UNIT and modern-day Earth, but an old enemy lies in wait.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector