[1] Known for his active involvement in local politics and his passion for jazz and the Great American Songbook, McIntyre's background includes work as television writer-producer with credits including Married... with Children, The New WKRP in Cincinnati, Full House, Mike Hammer, and the critically acclaimed PBS series, Liberty's Kids, which earned McIntyre a Humanitas Prize nomination.

With his wife, actress Penny Peyser, McIntyre wrote, produced, and directed the feature-length documentary film, Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon, released in 2008.

McIntyre is a frequent master of ceremonies, having performed on stage with Goldie Hawn, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Misty Copeland, Robert Redford, Jay Leno, Betty White, Ron Howard, John Cleese, and Steve Martin as part of the California Distinguished Speakers Series.

[citation needed] McIntyre writes a weekly column for the Los Angeles Daily News, which appears every Sunday.

He has also written for the Los Angeles Times, as well as The Daily Beast, American History Illustrated, and LA Jazz Scene.

[citation needed] Doug McIntyre won the Best Columnist award in 2011 from the California Association of Newspaper Publishers for his work in the Los Angeles Daily News.

[5] For the PBS series Liberty's Kids, Doug earned a Humanitas Prize nomination for excellence in television writing.