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Gary Downie
BornRoderick Gary Downie Pinkus
(1940-07-17)17 July 1940
South Africa
Died19 January 2006(2006-01-19) (aged 65)
Brighton, East Sussex, England
OccupationProduction manager
PartnerJohn Nathan-Turner (1972–2002; his death)

Roderick Gary Downie Pinkus (17 July 1940 – 19 January 2006) 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 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 (2013) 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.

Bibliography

References

  1. "Author of The Colony of Lies". BBC. 1 January 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
  2. "Doctor Who: The Two Doctors Review". Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  3. "Pans People – Funky Street – [Happening For] Lulu TX: 01/02/1969". Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2017 – via YouTube.
  4. "The girls one step ahead". The Mirror. 23 June 1969. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  5. "Gary Downie". Archived from the original on 22 March 2019.
  6. "Star Cops (TV Series 1987) - IMDb". IMDb.
  7. Downie, Gary (1985), The Doctor Who cookbook, W.H. Allen, ISBN 978-0-491-03214-8
  8. ^ Matthew Sweet "JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner by Richard Marson – review", The Guardian, 22 March 2013

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