Downing has achieved notoriety as an activist working to end the war on drugs, serving on the Board of Directors of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, and as an Investigative Journalist, joining forces with the ACLU and Al Jazeera to uncover the Long Beach Police Department's TigerText disappearing messaging scandal in 2018.
We liked the voice overs, but it also got to the point that the scheduling problem for Richard [Dean Anderson] became near impossible. He'd work twelve hours on the set and then have to come into the sound studio to record them to picture. It became both a scheduling nightmare and a major fatigue factor for our star. Unlike many shows on television, Mac was in most every scene we shot, and he never had a day off when the company was shooting.
