The Best Episodes Directed By Douglas Mackinnon
Every TV Episode Directed by Douglas Mackinnon Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Douglas Mackinnon Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Douglas Mackinnon is "Chapter 1: The Arrival", rated 9.3/10 from 51 user votes. It was "written by Neil Gaiman". "Chapter 1: The Arrival" aired on 7/28/2023 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Chapter 6: Every Day".
9.3/10 51 votes#1 - Chapter 1: The Arrival
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/28/2023
Retired angel Aziraphale and retired demon Crowley’s lives are upended when a visitor arrives on the doorstep of Aziraphale’s bookshop, bringing chaos. Local shopkeepers Maggie and Nina get locked in to Nina’s coffee shop when Crowley loses his temper. Heaven and Hell are suspicious, and Crowley and Aziraphale have a disagreement.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Neil Gaiman
8.9/10 38 votes#2 - Chapter 6: Every Day
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 7/28/2023
Crowley becomes a Heavenly bee and learns the truth about the Armageddon sequel. Aziraphale defends his bookshop from Shax's army and reveals his halo, Maggie and Nina become warriors, and Jim the assistant bookseller gets some hot chocolate. Crowley and Aziraphale get to the bottom of the mystery of the Matchbox. The Metatron brings an oatmilk latte, along with a final offer.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Neil Gaiman
8.8/10 11 votes#3 - Episode 2
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/19/2014
Following the tragedy at the hospital, AC12's Kate Fleming is planted undercover in Lindsay Denton's Missing Persons Unit. But Lindsay in turn gathers compromising evidence against the anti-corruption team.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Jed Mercurio
8.7/10 36 votes#4 - Chapter 2: The Clue featuring the minisode A Companion to Owls
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/28/2023
Heaven and Hell are determined to find the missing angel. An overheard song provides Aziraphale with a Clue. Crowley and Aziraphale visit the pub to discuss ways that humans fall in love. While almost 5,000 years ago Crowley is sent to inflict punishments on the righteous Job, God’s favourite person, as Aziraphale learns at first hand about temptation, and what Gabriel will and won't believe.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Neil Gaiman
8.7/10 35 votes#5 - Chapter 3: I Know Where I'm Going featuring the minisode The Resurrectionists
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/28/2023
Heaven sends the angel Muriel in disguise to spy on Aziraphale and Crowley. Aziraphale drives to Edinburgh in pursuit of his Clue, and learns a little about a lot. The couple’s visit to Edinburgh in 1827 involves graverobbery, a statue and an unfortunate encounter with a vial of laudanum. In the present, Crowley is in charge of the bookshop, and is disappointed by human beings and the weather.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Neil Gaiman
8.7/10 35 votes#6 - Chapter 5: The Ball
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 7/28/2023
Aziraphale tries to bring Maggie and Nina together by organizing a meeting of the Whickber Street Shopkeepers and Street Traders Association. In Hell, Shax is determined to launch a full scale attack on the bookshop, with a legion of demons at her command. Nina's heart is broken, as is a bookshop window. Gabriel has a close encounter with Mrs Sandwich and a small plate of cakes.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Neil Gaiman
8.6/10 11 votes#7 - Episode 1
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/12/2014
A brutal ambush on a police convoy leaves three officers dead and a protected witness fighting for his life. AC-12 turn their spotlight on Lindsay Denton, the officer who led the convoy but escaped unscathed.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Jed Mercurio
8.6/10 35 votes#8 - Chapter 4: The Hitchhiker featuring the minisode Nazi Zombie Flesheaters
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 7/28/2023
Aziraphale’s good deed of picking up a hitchhiker on his way back to Soho, proves to be a serious mistake. In 1941 Crowley and Aziraphale encounter some surprising adversaries, old and new, as the Nazi spies who almost entrapped Aziraphale return as Zombies from the dead, intent on preventing him from attempting a Bullet Catch on the West End Stage.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Neil Gaiman
8.4/10 11 votes#9 - Episode 3
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/26/2014
Lindsay is denied bail and finds herself targeted in prison. Growing increasingly desperate, she tells Kate about a relationship with an executive police officer and her theory of why she is being framed.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Jed Mercurio
8.3/10 10 votes#10 - You'd Know What to Do
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/6/2017
After the battle of Acre, we join the Knights Templar in Paris where Landry, a veteran of the Holy Wars, fears that the Order has lost its way. When the blood of a brother is shed, Landry and the Templars are forced to take up their swords again.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Richard Rayner
8.2/10 46 votes#11 - The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/31/2019
Can Adam, Crowley and Aziraphale work together to fight the powers of Heaven and Hell and prevent the apocalypse? And what fate awaits them if they do? The story reaches its conclusion, and it might just be the end of the world.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Neil Gaiman
8.0/10 1 votes#12 - Episode One
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/16/2007
The last living descendent of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is Tom Jackman. From time to time his alter ego Hyde wakes. Tom's wife hires a private investigator to find out why he left his family life six months previously.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 12 votes#13 - Episode 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/24/2012
With Gates on the run, the anti-corruption team come under pressure to close the case once and for all. Arnott is forced to make some tough decisions about where his loyalties lie. Fleming and Hastings go all out to catch Gates, leading to a shattering conclusion.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Jed Mercurio
8.0/10 10 votes#14 - Find Us the Grail
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/18/2017
Landry and Parsifal search for a killer. The unexpected arrival of Pope Boniface in Paris threatens De Nogaret's carefully laid plans.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Richard Rayner
8.0/10 74 votes#15 - In the Beginning
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/31/2019
In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Neil Gaiman
8.0/10 46 votes#16 - The Doomsday Option
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/31/2019
Aziraphale and Crowley race towards Tadfield airbase as they attempt to prevent Adam and the Four Horsemen from beginning the apocalypse. But one has been discorporated and the other is trapped in a flaming motorway. Will they get there in time?
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Neil Gaiman
7.9/10 58 votes#17 - Listen
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 9/13/2014
What scares the grand old man of time? What horrors lurk under his bed? Ghosts of the past and future crowd into the lives of The Doctor and Clara; a terrified caretaker in a children's home, the last man standing in the universe, and a little boy who doesn't want to join the army...
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Steven Moffat
7.9/10 49 votes#18 - Saturday Morning Funtime
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/31/2019
Aziraphale and Crowley's friendship is tested to the limit as their superiors catch up with them. Armageddon starts in earnest, with the Antichrist's powers wreaking havoc across the globe.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Neil Gaiman
7.8/10 52 votes#19 - Flatline
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 10/18/2014
Separated from The Doctor, Clara discovers a new menace from another dimension. But how do you hide when even the walls are no protection.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Jamie Mathieson
7.8/10 12 votes#20 - Untimely Resurrection
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/7/2016
Reunited, Jamie and Claire attempt to extinguish the fires their dinner party ignited; however, Claire is set off on an unexpected change of course. Jamie and Claire’s relationship is put to the ultimate test when the past rears its ugly head.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Richard Kahan
7.8/10 56 votes#21 - The Book
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/31/2019
Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and Crowley must now try to locate the whereabouts of real Antichrist. Perhaps the story of Agnes Nutter and her famous prophecies will hold the answer?
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Neil Gaiman
7.7/10 50 votes#22 - Hard Times
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/31/2019
We follow Aziraphale and Crowley's friendship across the ages. Meanwhile, in the present day, Agnes Nutter's descendant Anathema arrives in Tadfield on her own mission to save the world.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Neil Gaiman
7.5/10 2 votes#23 - Body 21 (1)
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 9/25/2004
Leo and his team are approached by a support group to help discover the truth behind a train crash.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 2 votes
#24 - Body 21 (2)
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 9/27/2004
Leo, Harry and Nikki step up their efforts to discover the truth behind the train crash but there are still many unanswered questions.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 12 votes#25 - Episode 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/17/2012
Desperate for proof of Gates's corruption, Fleming pushes her relationship with him to the limit. But her behaviour causes Morton to question if she might not be such a loyal colleague after all.
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Writer: Jed Mercurio