Tegan Jovanka

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Tegan Jovanka
Doctor Who character
Janet Fielding as Tegan in a publicity shot from the serial Resurrection of the Daleks
First appearance	Logopolis (1981)
Last appearance	"The Power of the Doctor" (2022)
Portrayed by	Janet Fielding Sian Pattenden (young; uncredited)[1]
Non-canonical appearances	A Fix with Sontarans (1985)
Duration	1981–1985, 2022
In-universe information
Species	Human
Affiliation	Fourth Doctor Fifth Doctor Thirteenth Doctor UNIT
Relatives	Andrew Verney (grandfather) Vanessa (aunt) Colin Frazer (cousin) Adopted Son
Home	Earth
Home era	20th and 21st centuries

Tegan Jovanka is a fictional character played by Janet Fielding in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. An Australian airline stewardess and a native of Brisbane who was a companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors, she was a regular in the programme from 1981 to 1984. Tegan appeared in 20 stories (65 episodes).

According to producer John Nathan-Turner, when he was thinking of a name for the character, it was either going to be Tegan, after his partner's niece in Australia, or Jovanka, after Jovanka Broz, the widow of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, so he wrote both down on a piece of paper. Script editor Christopher H. Bidmead mistakenly believed that Jovanka was the character's last name rather than an alternative, and so christened her Tegan Jovanka.^[2]