Tegan Jovanka facts for kids

Doctor Who character
Tegan Jovanka
With	Fourth Doctor; Fifth Doctor
Race	Human
Home planet	Earth
Home era	1981
First appearance	Logopolis
Last appearance	Resurrection of the Daleks
Actor	Janet Fielding

Tegan Jovanka is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. She was played by Janet Fielding. Tegan Jovanka was an Australian airline stewardess who was a companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors, she was a regular in the programme from 1981 to 1984. Tegan was the longest-serving companion in terms of years on the series (3 years, 1 month), although Jamie McCrimmon was in the most episodes and stories.

Character history

Tegan first appears in the Fourth Doctor's last serial, Logopolis. On her way to Heathrow Airport to start her new job with Air Australia, her car suffers a flat tyre. She enters a roadside police box to seek help, but she enters and does not realise that it is the Doctor's Tardis. She is present when the Fourth Doctor falls from the Pharos Project radio telescope and regenerates into his fifth incarnation, and continues to travel with the doctor Eventually, the chaos during the events of Resurrection of the Daleks prove too much and she chooses to leave the Doctor and Turlough and stay in 1984 London.

Trivia

According to David Tennant's video diary of filming Doctor Who Series 3, John Barrowman (who plays Captain Jack Harkness in the 21st century series of Doctor Who and its spinoff Torchwood) has a dog named Tegan, named after the companion.

List of appearances

Television

Season 18

Logopolis

Season 19

Castrovalva
Four to Doomsday
Kinda
The Visitation
Black Orchid
Earthshock
Time-Flight

Season 20

Arc of Infinity
Snakedance
Mawdryn Undead
Terminus
Enlightenment
The King's Demons

20th anniversary special

The Five Doctors

Season 21

Warriors of the Deep
The Awakening
Frontios
Resurrection of the Daleks
The Caves of Androzani (cameo)

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