{{Short description|British production manager}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}} {{Infobox person | name = Gary Downie | birth_name = Roderick Gary Downie Pinkus | birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|7|17|df=y}} | birth_place = South Africa | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|1|19|1940|7|17|df=y}} | death_place = Brighton, East Sussex, England | occupation = Production manager | partner = John Nathan-Turner (1972–2002; Nathan-Turner's death) }} '''Roderick Gary Downie Pinkus''' (17 July 1940 &ndash; 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.<ref name=BBC20040101 >{{cite web |title=Author of The Colony of Lies. |date=1 January 2004 |accessdate=31 January 2010 |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2004/01/01/13689.shtml}}</ref> His own analysis of the role of a production manager can be found on the BBC DVD release of ''The Two Doctors''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thedigitalfix.com/film/content/5837/doctor-who-the-two-doctors/ |title=Doctor Who: The Two Doctors Review |access-date=22 March 2019 |archive-date=22 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322193734/https://www.thedigitalfix.com/film/content/5837/doctor-who-the-two-doctors/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==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'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Pans People – Funky Street – [Happening For] Lulu TX: 01/02/1969| date=22 June 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkHk6rvcy10 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/LkHk6rvcy10 |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|via=YouTube|access-date=2 June 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> the ''Bobbie Gentry Show'' and ''Top of the Pops''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The girls one step ahead|url=http://one-for-the-dads.979225.n3.nabble.com/F-is-for-Flick-tp4062391p4131801.html|work=The Mirror|access-date=2 June 2017|date=23 June 1969}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Downie also worked on ''I, Claudius'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bcfec552b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322194443/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bcfec552b|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 March 2019|title=Gary Downie}}</ref> ''All Creatures Great and Small'' and ''Star Cops''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0088613/fullcredits/production_manager?ref_=m_ttfc_9|title = Star Cops (TV Series 1987) - IMDb|website = IMDb}}</ref>

==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''.<ref name=Downie1985 >{{citation | last=Downie | first=Gary | year=1985 | title=The Doctor Who cookbook | publisher=W.H. Allen | isbn=978-0-491-03214-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sB-7GAAACAAJ}}</ref> 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)<ref name="Sweet">Matthew Sweet [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/22/jnt-scandalous-doctor-who-review "JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner by Richard Marson – review"], ''The Guardian'', 22 March 2013</ref> 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.<ref name="Sweet"/>

==Bibliography== *1985 – The Doctor Who Cookbook – {{ISBN|0-491-03214-5}}

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0236059}}

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