Mcdonald And Dodds

moderate violence, injury detail, sex references, language

Director(s)Alex Pillai

Production year2019

Genre(s)Crime, Drama

Approx. running minutes89m

CastJason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, James Murray, Jack Riddiford, Martin Kemp, Patsy Kensit

Mcdonald And Dodds

moderate violence, injury detail, sex references, language

Classified Date:

12/02/2020

Version:

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

ITV Studios Home Entertainment

Paperwork Remarks:

n, a, s, o, e, 1, S

moderate violence, injury detail, sex references, language

Classified Date:

12/02/2020

Version:

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

ITV Studios Home Entertainment

Paperwork Remarks:

Season 1 Episodes 1-2

moderate threat, sex references

Classified Date:

04/07/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

MCDONALD AND DODDS is a British crime drama series; in this episode, the duo investigate the death of a man who fell after he and four friends take a trip in a hot air balloon.

threat and horror

Scenes of threat pertain to a man falling from a hot air balloon after sabotage leads its flight to become compromised.

sex

There are moderate verbal sex references, including mention of a lap dancing club, as well as a relationship in which a woman was known to provide 'sex on tap'.

additional issues

Bad language is mild ('shit', 'bullshit', 'bloody', 'crap', 'tart', 'bastard'), accompanied by other milder terms ('God' and 'hell'). There are verbal references to suicide. There are also infrequent references to drug distribution.

sexual violence references, moderate sex references

Classified Date:

04/07/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

MCDONALD AND DODDS is a British crime drama series; in this episode, the duo investigate the murder of a sportsman who is found dead in a railway tunnel.

sex

A woman describes her friend as being 'blind as a pervert'. Other references to sex are milder, pertaining to a woman's adulterous relationship.

sexual violence and sexual threat

There are verbal references to rohypnol, which is described multiple times as the 'date rape drug'.

additional issues

Bad language is mild ('bitches', 'shit', 'bullshit', 'piss'), accompanied by other milder terms ('God', 'Christ' and 'screwed'). There are also scenes containing mild crime scene detail, but without the presence of blood.

moderate sex references, domestic abuse

Classified Date:

04/07/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

MCDONALD AND DODDS is a British crime drama series; in this episode, the duo investigate the suspicious death of a social media influencer.

threat and horror

There are references to domestic abuse in which a frightened woman records a video accusing the man she is having an affair with of threatening her.

sex

There are moderate sex references, including comic lines relating to orgasms and 'shagging'. Other milder sex references pertain to an adulterous affair.

additional issues

There is mild bad language ('bollocks', 'shit', 'bloody'), accompanied by other milder terms ('OMG', 'God' and 'damn'). There are also scenes containing mild medical detail in the form of a woman's bloody nose during cosmetic surgery.

Please note: each rating can only be used for the distribution method listed in the Use column. For more information on each Use click here.

moderate threat, injury detail, drug references, suicide

Classified Date:

04/07/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

MCDONALD AND DODDS is a UK crime drama series; in this episode police are tasked with untangling the mysterious circumstances around the death of a young woman in a busy park.

threat and horror

Moderate threat includes a character swapping a woman's vape capsule with a poisoned one, and brief scene of knife threat during a police chase.

drugs

There are references to heroin dealing.

injury detail

There is sight of a dead body in park.

suicide and self-harm

There is a scene of suicide in which a woman smokes from a poisoned vape to end her own life and evade police.

additional issues

There are references to assisted dying, cancer, use of mild bad language, and use of discriminatory term 'looney bin' in reference to a psychiatric facility.

drug references, moderate violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

04/07/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

MCDONALD AND DODDS is a crime drama series; in this episode, police investigate the murder of a race car driver and McDonald runs into an old flame.

violence

There is an undetailed scene of moderate violence in which a character's neck is stabbed with a sharp implement.

drugs

There are references to cocaine trafficking, and a recreational drug found in a victim's bloodstream.

injury detail

There is sight of a dead body with a puncture wound to the neck.

additional issues

There are mild sex references, use of mild bad language, moments of mild threat and undetailed suicide references.

moderate threat, violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

04/07/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

MCDONALD AND DODDS is a crime drama series; in this episode, a mysterious dead body in a field leads police on the hunt for a serial killer trying to frame one of their own.

violence

There are undetailed scenes of moderate violence in which a woman is attacked by a character wielding a knife.

threat and horror

There are moments of moderate knife threat and a scene in which a character spontaneously bursts into flames in front of distressed bystanders.

injury detail

There is moderate injury detail of a decaying corpse and a murder victim with strangulation marks on their neck.

additional issues

There are references to a victim having died from an overdose of prescription medication, use of mild bad language and mild sex references to casual sex within an open marriage.

Please note: each rating can only be used for the distribution method listed in the Use column. For more information on each Use click here.

moderate injury detail, violence, drug references, sex references

Classified Date:

08/08/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

MCDONALD AND DODDS is a British crime drama series; in this episode, the staged death of a woman leads McDonald and Dodds to a second murder and a money laundering enterprise.

violence

There is an undetailed shooting. In another scene, a woman goes into anaphylactic shock and collapses after being poisoned.

sex

There are references to a man laundering money for prostitution rings and a journalist exposing sex scandals.

drugs

There are references to the sale of ecstasy, and a contaminated batch of pills killing a man and hospitalising others.

injury detail

There is moderate injury detail of a dead woman lying in a pool of blood.

additional issues

There are undetailed references to human trafficking, organised crime, suicide and alcoholism. There are upsetting scenes of a young boy identifying a body in a morgue, and use of mild bad language ('crap').

moderate injury detail, violence

Classified Date:

08/08/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

MCDONALD AND DODDS is a British crime drama series; In this episode, McDonald and Dodds investigate the murder of a man on a bus, leading them to a blues festival, a second murder and the sale of a mysterious artifact.

violence

Moderate violence occurs. A person is strangled, and another is fatally punched in the face.

injury detail

There is moderate injury detail of dead bodies with ligature marks, head wounds and bloody noses.

additional issues

There are undetailed references to a black man being wrongly pulled over by police, and the incident damaging his trust in the authorities thereafter. There are references to adultery, alcoholism, familial breakdowns and use of mild bad language ('bloody') and milder terms ('God'). In other scenes, a menacing masked man appears before people.

moderate bloody images, threat, violence

Classified Date:

08/08/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

MCDONALD AND DODDS is a UK crime mystery drama series; in this episode, three baffling murders are carried out at three weddings taking place on the same day in Bath.

violence

A man is shot dead in undetailed fashion.

threat and horror

A woman has an unsettling dream in which a man snarls and lunges at her.

injury detail

There are occasional bloody images at crime scenes, including sight of the bloodstained clothing and small wounds on a corpse, and blood running from the nose of a poisoning victim.

additional issues

There are infrequent mild sex references. There is also mild bad language (‘bloody’), as well as very mild terms (‘God’).

Please note: each rating can only be used for the distribution method listed in the Use column. For more information on each Use click here.

Classified date04/07/2022

LanguageEnglish

threat and horror

Scenes of threat pertain to a man falling from a hot air balloon after sabotage leads its flight to become compromised.

sex

There are moderate verbal sex references, including mention of a lap dancing club, as well as a relationship in which a woman was known to provide 'sex on tap'.

additional issues

moderate threat, sex references

Classified Date:

04/07/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

Scenes of threat pertain to a man falling from a hot air balloon after sabotage leads its flight to become compromised.

sex

There are moderate verbal sex references, including mention of a lap dancing club, as well as a relationship in which a woman was known to provide 'sex on tap'.

additional issues

sexual violence references, moderate sex references

Classified Date:

04/07/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

A woman describes her friend as being 'blind as a pervert'. Other references to sex are milder, pertaining to a woman's adulterous relationship.

sexual violence and sexual threat

There are verbal references to rohypnol, which is described multiple times as the 'date rape drug'.

additional issues

moderate sex references, domestic abuse

Classified Date:

04/07/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

There are references to domestic abuse in which a frightened woman records a video accusing the man she is having an affair with of threatening her.

sex

There are moderate sex references, including comic lines relating to orgasms and 'shagging'. Other milder sex references pertain to an adulterous affair.

additional issues

drug references, moderate violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

04/07/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is an undetailed scene of moderate violence in which a character's neck is stabbed with a sharp implement.

drugs

There are references to cocaine trafficking, and a recreational drug found in a victim's bloodstream.

injury detail

There is sight of a dead body with a puncture wound to the neck.

additional issues

There are mild sex references, use of mild bad language, moments of mild threat and undetailed suicide references.

moderate threat, injury detail, drug references, suicide

Classified Date:

04/07/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

Moderate threat includes a character swapping a woman's vape capsule with a poisoned one, and brief scene of knife threat during a police chase.

drugs

There are references to heroin dealing.

injury detail

There is sight of a dead body in park.

suicide and self-harm

There is a scene of suicide in which a woman smokes from a poisoned vape to end her own life and evade police.

additional issues

There are references to assisted dying, cancer, use of mild bad language, and use of discriminatory term 'looney bin' in reference to a psychiatric facility.

moderate threat, violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

04/07/2022

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There are undetailed scenes of moderate violence in which a woman is attacked by a character wielding a knife.

threat and horror

There are moments of moderate knife threat and a scene in which a character spontaneously bursts into flames in front of distressed bystanders.

injury detail

There is moderate injury detail of a decaying corpse and a murder victim with strangulation marks on their neck.

additional issues

There are references to a victim having died from an overdose of prescription medication, use of mild bad language and mild sex references to casual sex within an open marriage.

moderate injury detail, violence

Classified Date:

08/08/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Moderate violence occurs. A person is strangled, and another is fatally punched in the face.

injury detail

There is moderate injury detail of dead bodies with ligature marks, head wounds and bloody noses.

additional issues

moderate injury detail, violence, drug references, sex references

Classified Date:

08/08/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is an undetailed shooting. In another scene, a woman goes into anaphylactic shock and collapses after being poisoned.

sex

There are references to a man laundering money for prostitution rings and a journalist exposing sex scandals.

drugs

There are references to the sale of ecstasy, and a contaminated batch of pills killing a man and hospitalising others.

injury detail

There is moderate injury detail of a dead woman lying in a pool of blood.

additional issues

moderate bloody images, threat, violence

Classified Date:

08/08/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A man is shot dead in undetailed fashion.

threat and horror

A woman has an unsettling dream in which a man snarls and lunges at her.

injury detail

There are occasional bloody images at crime scenes, including sight of the bloodstained clothing and small wounds on a corpse, and blood running from the nose of a poisoning victim.

additional issues

There are infrequent mild sex references. There is also mild bad language (‘bloody’), as well as very mild terms (‘God’).

Director(s)Alex Pillai

Production year2019

Genre(s)Crime, Drama

Approx. running minutes89m

CastJason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, James Murray, Jack Riddiford, Martin Kemp, Patsy Kensit

moderate violence, injury detail, sex references, language

Classified Date:

12/02/2020

Version:

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

ITV Studios Home Entertainment

Paperwork Remarks:

n, a, s, o, e, 1, S

moderate violence, injury detail, sex references, language

Classified Date:

12/02/2020

Version:

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

ITV Studios Home Entertainment

Paperwork Remarks:

Season 1 Episodes 1-2

Classified date04/07/2022

LanguageEnglish