Tegan Jovanka

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)

 References 

Other websites
 Tegan Jovanka at The TARDIS Index File website
 Tegan Jovanka on the BBC's Doctor Who website

Category:Doctor Who characters