Gary Downie

Roderick Gary Downie Pinkus was a South African-born English production manager on many 1980s episodes of the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, and partner of its producer John Nathan-Turner. His own analysis of the role of a production manager can be found on the BBC DVD release of The Two Doctors.

Career

Downie had previously been a dancer and alongside Adrian Le Peltier he occasionally accompanied Pan's People between 1968 and 1970, in Happening for Lulu, the Bobbie Gentry Show and Top of the Pops.
Downie also worked on I, Claudius, All Creatures Great and Small (1978 [TV series)|All Creatures Great and Small] and Star Cops.

Personal life

Downie died on 19 January 2006, having survived Nathan-Turner who died in 2002. Gary Downie shared a home with Nathan-Turner in Saltdean, Brighton. Downie was the author of the mid-1980s book The Doctor Who Cookbook. Many Doctor Who celebrities donated recipes to the volume including Ian Marter and Lalla Ward.

Controversy

In Richard Marson's book The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner Marson alleges Downie sexually assaulted him, and details other accusations of inappropriate behaviour by Nathan-Turner and Downie, during the former's period as the series' producer.