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|alias = Claudia
|name = Tegan Jovanka
 
 
|species = Human
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|job = Air stewardess
|species = Human
 
|job = air stewardess
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|job2 = Earth Ambassador to Gallifrey
|grandparent = Andrew Verney
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|job3 = Author
 
|affiliation = Family Smith
|father = William Jovanka
 
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|affiliation2 = Verney Food Supplies
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|origin = [[Brisbane]]
 
|father = William Jovanka
|origin = [[Brisbane]]
 
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|mother = Joy Jovanka
|first = Logopolis (TV story)
 
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|grandparent = Mjovic Jovanka
|appearances = [[Tegan Jovanka - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
 
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|grandparent2 = Sneshna Jovanka
|actor = Janet Fielding
 
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|grandparent3 = Andrew Verney
|clip=Tegan says goodbye - Doctor Who Resurrection of the Daleks - BBC
 
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|grandparent4 = Tegan Jovanka's grandmother{{!}}grandmother
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|partner = Kylex-12
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|partner2 = Michael Tanaka
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|partner3 = Nyssa
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|spouse = William Haybourne
 
|first = Logopolis (TV story)
 
|appearances = [[Tegan Jovanka - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
 
|actor = Janet Fielding
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|other actor = Sian Pattenden
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|clip = The Doctor Meets Tegan - Doctor Who - Logopolis - BBC
 
|clip2 = Tegan says goodbye - Doctor Who Resurrection of the Daleks - BBC
 
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'''Tegan Haybourne''' (née '''Jovanka''') was a [[companion]] of the [[Fourth Doctor|Fourth]] and [[Fifth Doctor]]s and a temporary companion to the [[First Doctor]] during the [[Game of Rassilon]] in the [[Death Zone]].
'''Tegan Jovanka''' was an [[Australia]]n [[air stewardess]] trainee who wandered into the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] when she mistook it for a genuine [[police box]]. She quickly became embroiled in the events surrounding the Doctor's [[regeneration]] and found herself a somewhat unwilling passenger of the [[Fifth Doctor]], as he failed to successfully return her to her proper [[time]] and place. Tegan was one of the few [[companion]]s to have parted company with the Doctor and then return for a significant number of adventures.
 
   
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On her way to begin her job as an [[air stewardess]] at [[Heathrow Airport]], Tegan wandered into [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and became embroiled in the events surrounding the Fourth Doctor's [[regeneration]]. She was initially an unwilling companion to the Fifth Doctor, travelling alongside [[Nyssa]] and [[Adric]], but came to enjoy them, later being joined by [[Marcipor|Marc]], [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] and [[Kamelion]]. However, witnessing a [[Dalek]] slaughter made her decide to leave the Doctor as it had "stopped being fun".
She was joined in her travels at various times by [[Adric]], [[Nyssa]], [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]], [[Kamelion]] and, briefly, [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]]. She played the [[Game of Rassilon]] in the [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]], where she also met the [[First Doctor|First]], [[Second Doctor|Second]] and [[Third Doctor]]s, along with [[Susan Foreman]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]].
 
   
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Tegan lived an ordinary life on [[Earth]] and campaigned for [[Aborigine|Aboriginal]] rights. She had relationships with [[Michael Tanaka]] and Nyssa and eventually married [[William Haybourne]].
Tegan's relatively long tenure of service onboard the TARDIS belied an ambivalence about travel with the Doctor. Even through her final glimpse of the TARDIS, she vacillated between wanting to stay and wanting to go.
 
   
 
== Biography ==
 
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
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=== Childhood ===
Tegan was born in the city of [[Brisbane]] on [[22 September]] [[1960]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'') Her father was [[William Jovanka]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') and her mother was the daughter of [[Andrew Verney]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Awakening]]'')
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Tegan was born in [[Brisbane]] on [[22 September]], [[1960]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'') to [[William Jovanka|Bill]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') and [[Joy Jovanka]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Qualia (short story)|Qualia]]'') She had several brothers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Qualia (short story)|Qualia]]'') Her father's parents, [[Mjovic Jovanka|Mjovic]] and [[Sneshna Jovanka|Sneshna Jovanka]], were [[Serbia]]n and emigrated from [[Yugoslavia]] to [[Australia]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') but had returned to their homeland by [[1981]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') whilst her maternal grandfather, [[Andrew Verney]], was [[Great Britain|British]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Awakening (TV story)|The Awakening]]'')
   
She had a younger brother. She also had an uncle and aunt, Richard and Felicity, who was her mother's sister-in-law. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') Tegan had [[Serbia]]n paternal grandparents who originally lived in [[Yugoslavia]]. They emigrated from Yugoslavia to [[Australia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') Tegan's paternal aunt was [[Vanessa (Logopolis)|Vanessa]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') and her cousin was [[Colin Frazer]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'')
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Her extended family included her mother's siblings [[Vanessa (Logopolis)|Vanessa]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Qualia (short story)|Qualia]]'') and [[Richard Frazer]], who was married to [[Felicity Frazer|Felicity]] and had two sons; [[Colin Frazer|Colin]] and [[Michael Frazer|Michael]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') Tegan called Colin her favourite cousin. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'') She also had other cousins who worked in blast-mining in Australia. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Contingency Club (audio story)|The Contingency Club]]'')
   
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Tegan lived on a [[cattle]] [[farm]] when she was young, describing it as being as far away from civilisation as it could be. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Psychodrome (audio story)|Psychodrome]]'') She tried [[ice cream]] when she was three and did not like it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'') She was living on a [[sheep]] farm owned by her father by the early [[1970s]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Logopolis (novelisation)|Logopolis]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Butcher of Brisbane (audio story)|The Butcher of Brisbane]]'') which her father let her drive around in a [[tractor]] when she was ten. She was a natural driver but preferred [[aeroplanes]], being allowed to fly her father's [[Cessna]] when she was older. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Logopolis (novelisation)|Logopolis]]'') One particular flight had not gone well due to [[turbulence]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time-Flight (novelisation)|Time-Flight]]'')
In her youth, she spent time in Caloundra, north of Brisbane. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The King of Terror]]'')
 
   
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When she was a child, her mother took her to a [[corroboree]], which gave her a recurring [[nightmare]] of strange white figures coming out of the dark. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Psychodrome (audio story)|Psychodrome]]'') She played a spelling game called [[Magic Robot]] as a girl and was talented at drawing, a hobby that her father encouraged her to do. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
Tegan also lived on a cattle farm when she was young. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Psychodrome (audio story)|Psychodrome]]'')
 
 
[[File:Young Tegan.jpg|thumb|left|Tegan as she appeared as a child. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'')]]
   
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Tegan learnt how to dance the [[Charleston (dance)|Charleston]] for a school play. ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'') Not especially bright as a child, she often took the blame for others because she could not think up her own [[excuse]]s. Her next door neighbour and best friend, [[Felicity Spoonsy]], introduced her to [[cigarette]]s which got often got her in trouble and also seduced [[Gary Lovarik]], whom Tegan fancied. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The King of Terror (novel)|The King of Terror]]'') She went to school with another next door neighbour, [[Mike Bretherton]], and was taught [[Physics]] and [[Chemistry]] by [[Anderson (Hexagora)|Miss Anderson]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hexagora (audio story)|Hexagora]]'') When she was twelve, she played with Aboriginal children in the [[Outback]] at her uncle's farm. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'')
She went to high school with [[Mike Bretherton]], who lived next door to her in Brisbane. They were taught [[physics]] and [[chemistry]] by Miss Anderson. When she was fifteen, she broke her toe during track and gym and Mike carried her books home for her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hexagora (audio story)|Hexagora]]'')
 
   
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At the age of thirteen, she made a deal with [[God]] that she would be good if He killed [[Tegan Jovanka's grandmother|her grandmother]], who died of a [[coronary thrombosis]] six weeks later. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The King of Terror (novel)|The King of Terror]]'') She had been ill for more than six years, during which Tegan's parents kept her away to avoid upsetting her at so young an age. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Warzone (audio story)|Warzone]]'') When she was fifteen, she broke her [[toe]] during track and gym, so Mike carried her books home for her. They had also dated at some point after this incident and despite breaking up, Tegan still remained fond of Mike. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hexagora (audio story)|Hexagora]]'') She spent many a Saturday in Brisbane with her friends; Flis, [[Susannah (Divided Loyalties)|Susannah]], [[Dave (Divided Loyalties)|Dave]] and [[Richard (Divided Loyalties)|Richard]], taking the [[ferry]] to the [[shop]]s and buying clothes and [[record]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') She once went to [[France]] as an exchange student. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'')
Tegan went to college. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lady of Mercia (audio story)|The Lady of Mercia]]'')
 
   
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=== Move to London ===
As she wanted to see the world and broaden her horizons, she studied foreign languages and [[Aborigine|Aboriginal]] culture. She spent most summers travelling aboard. For instance, she visited [[Hong Kong]] in [[1979]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')
 
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After William had an affair with a twenty-year-old typist, Tegan moved away to the coast with Joy and went to [[boarding school]], where she studied for a few terms before being expelled. She ran away to [[Sydney]] and squatted in [[Kings Cross]] before her father found her and sent her to live with her aunt Vanessa in [[London]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The King of Terror (novel)|The King of Terror]]'') When she was eighteen, she was obsessed with [[music]], R-rated films and boys. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
   
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Tegan later went to [[college]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lady of Mercia (audio story)|The Lady of Mercia]]'') and studied foreign languages and [[Aborigine|Aboriginal]] culture, wanting to broaden her horizons and see the world. To that end, she spent most [[summer]]s abroad, visiting [[Hong Kong]] in [[1979]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') but never visiting the [[United States of America|United States]]. Believing that it would be "a glamorous something to do", she decided to pursue a career as an [[air stewardess]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The King of Terror (novel)|The King of Terror]]'') Vanessa told her to give up the job should it ever stop being fun. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')
During the early [[1980s]], her father owned a [[sheep]] farm near Brisbane. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Butcher of Brisbane (audio story)|The Butcher of Brisbane]]'')
 
By 1981, Tegan's father had died. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'')
 
   
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Although she came from a [[Judaism|Jewish]] family, Tegan was not [[religion|religious]]. Despite this, she still prayed after her mother told her that Bill had been diagnosed with [[cancer]] and was retiring from the farm, giving it up to Tegan's uncle Richard. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')
She moved to [[London]] to pursue a career as an air stewardess in [[1981]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
 
   
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=== First adventures in the TARDIS ===
Her mother was still alive by [[2006]]. On [[22 September]] of that year, she telephoned her daughter to wish her a happy forty-sixth birthday. She wanted to pay Tegan a visit so they could celebrate together, but Tegan claimed she was too busy with work to fit her mother into her plans. She told her she was going to have a few drinks with her friends from work instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'')
 
 
==== Joining the Doctor ====
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On [[28 February]], 1981, Vanessa agreed to drive Tegan to [[Heathrow Airport]] for her first day as an air stewardess. The car broke down in the [[London Borough of Barnet]], prompting Tegan to wander into [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] in search of help. The [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Adric]] took off without knowing that Tegan was aboard, taking her to [[Logopolis]]. After they told her of {{Ainley}}'s [[murder]] of Vanessa using his [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]], she helped them stop the Master's plans and the [[entropy]] he unleashed.
   
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After the Master was defeated, Tegan witnessed the Doctor's fall and [[regeneration]] into [[Fifth Doctor|his fifth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') Knowing that the new Doctor needed a "responsible adult" to help him recover, and seeing herself as the only real candidate next to Adric and Nyssa, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[When It Was Fun (short story)|When It Was Fun]]'') she helped get him back to the TARDIS and took off, going to [[Castrovalva]] where he recovered from his regeneration and they thwarted the Master again. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
=== Travels with the Doctor ===
 
   
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Although the Doctor gave her [[Tegan Jovanka's TARDIS key|a bedroom]] aboard the TARDIS, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Psychodrome (audio story)|Psychodrome]]'') Tegan wanted to be taken to Heathrow and continued to wear her uniform to remind the Doctor and herself of the fact. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[When It Was Fun (short story)|When It Was Fun]]'')
====Getting to Heathrow====
 
On [[28 February]] [[1981]], Tegan's aunt Vanessa drove her to [[Heathrow Airport]] for her first day as an air stewardess. The car broke down in the [[London Borough of Barnet]]. Seeing what she thought was a [[police box]], Tegan tried to call for help. Instead, she entered the huge interior of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. Astounded by the console room like others before her, she ventured into its depths. The [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Adric]], not knowing she was on board, dematerialised for [[Logopolis]] to have the [[Logopolitan]]s perform the complex calculations to restore functionality to the [[chameleon circuit|TARDIS' chameleon circuit]].
 
   
 
==== Attempts to return to Heathrow ====
The TARDIS crew discovered they had an accidental passenger. However, returning her to her rightful time and place was a secondary concern. The Doctor grew aware {{Ainley}} was trying to create instability in the [[universe]] by manipulating Logopolis. Tegan became embroiled in the Doctor's cause once she learned the Master had in the meantime killed her aunt. Stranded on a crumbling Logopolis with the Doctor, she became one of the few [[companion]]s to travel in [[the Master's TARDIS]]. The trio journeyed to [[Earth]]'s [[Pharos Project]] to stop the rampant [[entropy]] the Master had unleashed upon the universe. Once there, she witnessed the Doctor's fall from the Project's [[radio telescope]] and his consequent [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
 
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After leaving Castrovalva, the TARDIS materialised on the [[Psychodrome]] where she was faced with her childhood [[nightmare]] about Aboriginal dancing. She also learnt that she had a subconscious grudge against the Doctor due to associating him with Vanessa's death. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Psychodrome (audio story)|Psychodrome]]'') Three days after Logopolis, they landed on [[Scientifica]] where she met [[Chris Cwej]], whose fake Australian accent annoyed her, calling it [[racism|racist]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') They later landed on [[Isopterus]] where they faced giant [[termite]]s ([[COMIC]]: ''[[On the Planet Isopterus (comic story)|On the Planet Isopterus]]'') and on [[1950s]] Earth, where she told [[Edward Grainger]] about Australia. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Born (short story)|First Born]]'')
   
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On [[Monarch (Four to Doomsday)|Monarch]]'s [[Monarch's ship|ship]], Tegan sketched a man and woman for him which he used for the [[Minister of Enlightenment]] and the [[Minister of Persuasion]]'s humanoid forms. The Doctor gave her [[Tegan Jovanka's TARDIS key|a TARDIS key]] in the event that she was separated from the others. ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'') After the TARDIS landed on [[Deva Loka]], Tegan accidentally fell asleep at the place of shared [[dream]]s, allowing the [[Mara]] to enter her mind and possess her until it left her for [[Aris]], a [[Kinda]], after which it was seemingly destroyed using [[mirror]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'')
Tegan did not abandon the Doctor, even though she was ostensibly in her proper time and place. Perhaps seeing she would face a charge for criminal trespass, she threw her lot in with [[Nyssa]], Adric and the newly-regenerated [[Fifth Doctor|Doctor]]. She and Nyssa were critical to stabilizing the Doctor's difficult regeneration. She became a temporary TARDIS pilot (albeit receiving unknowing help from the Master) and saved it from being destroyed when it tried to travel past the [[Event One]] horizon. Her success was tempered by the Master's manipulation of the outcomes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
 
   
 
[[File:Tegan-Mara.jpg|left|thumb|Tegan under the influence of the [[Mara]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'')]]
On the [[planet]] [[Deva Loka]], Tegan accidentally fell asleep at "the place of shared dreams", [[File:Tegan-Mara.jpg|left|thumb|Tegan under the influence of the [[Mara]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'')]]allowing the [[Mara]] to take over her body after torturing her with nightmares. She was freed from the Mara when it possessed [[Aris|a mute Kinda male]]. While the Mara was being destroyed by forcing it to look at its reflection, Tegan looked at the Mara, apparently allowing a small portion of it to escape deep into her subconscious. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'')
 
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Another attempt to get Tegan to Heathrow resulted in the TARDIS landing in [[1666]] [[London]] where they faced the [[Terileptil]]s, one of whom she hit with a [[gun]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'') After escaping the [[Great Fire of London]], the [[Celestial Toymaker]] attempted to turn them against one another, trying to do so with Tegan by showing her [[William Jovanka|her father]]'s funeral. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') In the [[11th century]], [[U'thai|Czar U'thai]] and his warriors tried to kidnap a [[Europe]]an village's women, as well as Tegan. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Immortals (short story)|The Immortals]]'')
   
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She once argued with Adric and the Doctor when the [[helmic regulator]] had been reprogrammed ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'') and helped to defeat the [[Star Man|Star Men]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Star Men (audio story)|The Star Men]]'') the [[Red Queen]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Contingency Club (audio story)|The Contingency Club]]'') and [[Clarimonde]], who mistook her for [[Jo Grant]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zaltys (audio story)|Zaltys]]'') The first historical figure that Tegan met during her travels was [[Harry Houdini]], whom the Master had convinced that the Doctor was evil. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Smoke and Mirrors (audio story)|Smoke and Mirrors]]'')
She later displayed at least a basic appreciation for [[cricket]] and a talent for dancing the [[Charleston (dance)|Charleston]], which she had learned for a school play, as an accidental guest at [[Cranleigh Hall]] with the Doctor, Adric and Nyssa. She strove to prove the Doctor innocent of the murder of one the mansion's staff, which was committed by the [[George Cranleigh|deranged and hidden son]] of the Cranleighs. ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'')
 
   
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==== Enjoying her travels ====
During a trip to the [[26th century]], when the Doctor took a walk to ease his stress after an argument with Adric, Tegan was accused by soldiers, along with the Doctor and Nyssa, of killing archaeologists. It turned out to be androids controlled by the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]]. Tegan joined them in their trip to a cargo freighter, inadvertently transporting Cybermen to invade Earth. During this encounter Adric lost his life trying to disarm the Cybermen's control device on the ship out of scholarly pride. Tegan was furious at the Doctor's refusal to go back in time and rescue Adric. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
 
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After some time travelling, Tegan confessed to Adric that she had begun to enjoy travelling in the TARDIS and visited [[Cicero Prime]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kingdom of Lies (audio story)|Kingdom of Lies]]'') [[Yorkshire]] at various points in time ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Walk (audio story)|Ghost Walk]]'') and [[Argentia]] where she helped solve a murder. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Serpent in the Silver Mask (audio story)|Serpent in the Silver Mask]]'') Tegan, Adric and Nyssa were kidnapped by [[Adam Mitchell]] for the Master, but they were saved by various incarnations of the Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[In Their Nature (comic story)|In Their Night]]'', ''[[Endgame (POT comic story)|Endgame]]'')
   
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Having already admitted to Adric that she was starting to enjoy their adventures, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kingdom of Lies (audio story)|Kingdom of Lies]]'') Tegan decided that she wanted to stay with the crew for a while and told the Doctor not to continue trying to take her to Heathrow. She strove to prove the Doctor innocent after he was accused of murder at [[Cranleigh Hall]] on [[11 June]], [[1925]], prior to which she had enjoyed the Cranleighs' party and showed talent at dancing the [[Charleston (dance)|Charleston]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'') The crew celebrated [[Christmas]] in the TARDIS ([[PROSE]]: ''[[In the TARDIS: Christmas Day (short story)|In the TARDIS: Christmas Day]]'') and arrived on [[Lemaria]] during the celebration of another [[holiday]], [[Freedom Day]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Constant Doctor (short story)|The Constant Doctor]]'')
Tegan was left behind at [[Heathrow Airport]] in her home time due to a misunderstanding. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'')
 
   
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They encountered the [[Dar Trader]]s on [[Battlefield (The Darkening Eye)|Battlefield]], where Tegan cradled Nyssa's body during her three minutes of death. Unbeknownst to Tegan, the Traders had foretold Adric's death. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Darkening Eye (audio story)|The Darkening Eye]]'') She helped to defeat the [[I Predator]] in 1981. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Iterations of I (audio story)|Iterations of I]]'')
==== Reuniting with the Doctor ====
 
Having been sacked from her job as an air stewardess, Tegan went to [[Amsterdam]] in [[January]] [[1983]] on a trip to find her lost cousin, [[Colin Frazer]]. She ended up captured by [[Omega]], a rogue [[Time Lord]] whom the Doctor had previously defeated during his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]]. Omega had kidnapped her cousin to use as bait to lure her there. Tegan was used as leverage by Omega to have the Doctor stay alive so his genetic template could be used to create a new body for Omega out of positive matter. Once the process was done and began to fail, Tegan reunited with the Doctor and watched him seemingly destroy Omega before he could revert to anti-matter and destroy Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'')
 
   
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The crew landed on [[Planet (Hearts of Stone)|a planet]] of [[forest]]s and [[statue]]s where she argued with Adric, whom a [[gestalt]] entity prematurely mourned. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hearts of Stone (short story)|Hearts of Stone]]'') During a trip to [[2526]], she found herself facing the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] for the first time. Adric lost his life when a ship crashed into Earth and Tegan was furious at the Doctor's refusal to go back in time and rescue him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
==== Traveling by choice ====
 
On [[Manussa]], the remnants of the Mara which had possessed her gave Tegan prophetic dreams about the cave whence the jewel drew power. Despite the Doctor's efforts to help her suppress the monster, Tegan submitted to its will again and helped it feed on the negative emotions of those at a ceremony recalling the creature's first defeat. The Doctor performed the "snakedance" and found the "still point" within himself, destroying the Mara for good, for he had no negative emotions for it to feed on. Tegan was permanently freed from its possession. ([[TV]]: ''[[Snakedance (TV story)|Snakedance]]'')
 
   
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=== Left behind ===
Back on [[Earth]], Tegan met two different versions of the retired [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]]. He was teaching at a public school whose student population included the mysterious [[Turlough]]. She displayed a talent for character assessment when she immediately warmed to the former, while distrusting the latter. When she mistook Mawdryn for the Doctor, going through a bad regeneration, Tegan ended up infected with his virus, which caused her to age backwards when the real Doctor tried to remove her from Mawdryn's spaceship in the TARDIS. Tegan was saved when the two versions of the Brigadier met, releasing enough energy to power Mawdryn's machine, cure her and Nyssa, and allow Mawdryn and his fellow mutants to die. Turlough joined the TARDIS crew, something Tegan was not pleased about. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead]]'')
 
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Finally arriving at [[Heathrow Airport]], albeit it in [[1982]], Tegan, the Doctor and Nyssa again thwarted the Master, after which the Doctor and Nyssa dematerialised in the TARDIS without Tegan. She ran out of the airport too late to catch them and was upset at having been left behind. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'')
[[File:TeganInShadows.jpg|thumb|left|Tegan and [[Turlough]] onboard [[Terminus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'')]]
 
   
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Tegan's time as an air stewardess was short-lived after she assaulted an unruly passenger mid-flight, resulting in her being fired during her first year. During this time, she caught the attention of the [[android]] [[Kylex-12]], who identified her as a time traveller. The two began a romantic relationship, but Tegan found him over-attentive and broke up with him just as he prepared to propose to her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Waters of Amsterdam (audio story)|The Waters of Amsterdam]]'')
Thanks to Turlough's sabotaging of the TARDIS, Tegan and the others ended up on a spaceship filled with victims suffering from [[Lazar's disease]]. While the Doctor sought out the controls to prevent the ship from causing another Big Bang that would end the universe, she and Turlough were sent to find Nyssa, who had been infected and taken away for treatment. Nyssa's decision to stay on [[Terminus]] to care for the victims of [[Lazar's disease]] affected Tegan emotionally. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'')
 
   
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=== Continued adventures ===
Tegan had a brief romance with the [[Eternal]] [[Marriner]], a being who didn't love her so much as want to live vicariously through her emotions. During the same adventure, she saw Turlough turn from evil and reject the [[Black Guardian]]. This caused her to warm up to Turlough, if just a little. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'')
 
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==== Rejoining the TARDIS crew ====
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[[File:Arc infinity ep3.JPG|thumb|right|Tegan in [[the Matrix]] with [[Omega]] and the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'')]]
 
In [[January]] [[1983]], Tegan went to [[Amsterdam]] to visit her cousin [[Colin Frazer]], only to find that he had disappeared, having been captured by [[Omega]] to lure Tegan to him. He used Tegan as leverage in his plan to create a new body for himself using the Doctor. Once the process was done and had begun to fail, Tegan reunited with the Doctor and Nyssa and watched Omega's defeat before he could revert to anti-matter and destroy Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'')
   
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Tegan was approached by Kyle, whom she rebuffed before he directed her and the Doctor to a [[Rembrandt van Rijn]] exhibit showcasing drawings of [[spacecraft]]. At the museum, they encountered the [[Nix]] and became aware of [[Teldek]], later learning of Kyle's connection to her. After Teldek's defeat, Kyle accepted that Tegan did not love him and decided to continue living in the hope that he could find someone who would. Before Tegan and Nyssa entered the TARDIS, the Doctor went on a number of adventures without them, returning a few days later for them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Waters of Amsterdam (audio story)|The Waters of Amsterdam]]'') She was annoyed to find that her things had been put in storage. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Elite (audio story)|The Elite]]'')
Two days later Tegan, Turlough and the Doctor arrived on [[Helheim]] where they were reunited with Nyssa but it had been fifty years for her. Tegan discovered that Nyssa had cured [[Lazar's disease]]. After the Doctor failed to take Nyssa home she joined them again on the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cobwebs (audio story)|Cobwebs]]'')
 
   
 
==== Travelling by choice ====
The Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa then arrived on [[Cherdor]] in the [[28th century]], where they found a society which was obsessed with cleanliness, and lived under the menace of the [[Taker]]s. After discovering the truth behind the origins to the corrupt society, the TARDIS crew returned to the TARDIS, but discovered that she was still possessed by the Mara. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Whispering Forest (audio story)|The Whispering Forest]]'')
 
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[[File:Vampire tegan.jpg|thumb|left|Tegan becomes a [[vampire]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Blood Invocation (comic story)|Blood Invocation]]'')]]
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After leaving Amsterdam, the Doctor took Tegan and Nyssa to [[Florana]] where they came across a [[Dalek]] known as the [[High Priest (The Elite)|High Priest]] and Tegan led a band of rebels in what she had wanted to be a bloodless revolution. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Elite (audio story)|The Elite]]'') To recover after Florana, the trio stayed in [[Brisbane]] for several days before Tegan found that [[Mike Bretherton]] had disappeared. They managed to find him, turned into an insect, and Tegan told him that she had loved him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hexagora (audio story)|Hexagora]]'')
   
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Tegan began having [[dream]]s of [[snake]]s due to her connection to the [[Mara]]. She helped defeat [[The Dark (Fear of the Dark)|the Dark]] on [[Akoshemon]]'s [[Akoshemon's moon|moon]],([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fear of the Dark (novel)|Fear of the Dark]]'') [[Byzan]] and [[Albis]] on [[Sirius]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Children of Seth (audio story)|The Children of Seth]]'') [[Vi'Al]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The God Machine (short story)|The God Machine]]'') the [[Voorvolika]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Armageddon Chrysalis (short story)|The Armageddon Chrysalis]]'') [[Carnak]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Haven (short story)|The Haven]]'') and [[the Dren]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Penalty (short story)|The Penalty]]'')
They then arrived on [[Manussa]] during the [[Manussan Empire]] where they fought against the [[Mara]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cradle of the Snake (audio story)|The Cradle of the Snake]]'')
 
   
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After returning to Heathrow so that Tegan might meet a friend, the TARDIS crew met and defeated {{Delgado}} ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Night Flight to Nowhere (short story)|Night Flight to Nowhere]]'') and later saved the universe from a [[cyclotron]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lackaday Express (short story)|Lackaday Express]]'') In [[1896]], Tegan attempted to change time slightly but events remained unchanged, just as the Doctor expected. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sands of Time (novel)|The Sands of Time]]'') They also visited [[Morestra]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Zeta Major (novel)|Zeta Major]]'') the [[Necropolitan]] to mourn Adric ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wake (short story)|Wake]]'') and [[493]] [[Ravenna]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goths and Robbers (short story)|Goths and Robbers]]'')
[[File:TeganAtControlsKD.jpg|thumb|right|Tegan struggles at the [[TARDIS console]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'')]]
 
   
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On an old Earth colony, Tegan was taken prisoner by [[Anna (Soul Mate)|Anna]] for company. Tegan managed to escape, after which the Doctor and Nyssa told her that Anna had only been an imprint and not, strictly speaking, real. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Soul Mate (short story)|Soul Mate]]'') Tegan felt left out on [[F-four]] because of her lack of [[science|scientific]] knowledge and wandered off, uncovering the truth behind a deadly disease. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Exit (short story)|No Exit]]'')
While briefly stranded in the mid [[1980s]], Tegan met a teenage [[McDonald's]] employee named [[Ace|Dorothy "Ace" McShane]], who later became a companion of the [[Seventh Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'')
 
   
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Tegan and Nyssa asked the Doctor to teach them how to properly fly the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Men of the Earth (short story)|Men of the Earth]]'') Under the influence of the Mara, Tegan set the coordinates to [[Manussa (planet)|Manussa]] where she attempted to suppress the monster. However, she was unable to and helped it feed on the negative [[emotion]]s of those at a ceremony celebrating its defeat. The Doctor managed to defeat it and believed himself to have permanently freed Tegan from its possession. ([[TV]]: ''[[Snakedance (TV story)|Snakedance]]'') Recovering from Manussa, Tegan, the Doctor and Nyssa went on holiday in [[Tasmania]] where they encountered [[vampire]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]'') just as they later would on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Blood Invocation (comic story)|Blood Invocation]]'')
Tegan met [[Peri Brown]] and [[Erimem]] at a [[cricket]] match attended by both her and their versions of the Doctor. That night, the three of them got drunk at a [[pub]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Graham Dilley Saves the World (short story)|Graham Dilley Saves the World]]'')
 
   
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Tegan and Nyssa were chased by [[Endovorm]]s in the form of [[lion]]s at [[Trafalgar Square]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lions of Trafalgar (audio story)|The Lions of Trafalgar]]'') and helped the Doctor defeat the [[Akunites]] aboard the [[HMS Aquitaine]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Aquitaine (audio story)|Aquitaine]]'') Tegan witnessed the [[Peterloo Massacre]] and was appalled at the conditions of the [[factory|factories]] in [[Manchester]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Peterloo Massacre (audio story)|The Peterloo Massacre]]'') The Doctor told them that he would take them to the [[2012 Olympics]] but instead landed in [[1982]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The King of the Dead (audio story)|The King of the Dead]]'') later taking them to [[Mistpuddle]] where they solved a murder. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mistpuddle Murders (audio story)|The Mistpuddle Murders]]'')
The Doctor took Tegan and Turlough to the [[Eye of Orion]] to relax. However, she soon was pulled into helping the Doctor and his first three selves complete the [[Game of Rassilon]], as part of a plan by the corrupt Lord President [[Borusa]]. Here, Tegan again met the Brigadier, along with [[Susan Foreman]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. After the Doctor was made Lord President in Borusa's place, Tegan was surprised the Doctor wanted to run from the Time Lords. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
 
[[File:Tegan goodbye.jpg|thumb|Tegan says goodbye to the Doctor ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')]]
 
She also met the [[Sea Devil]]s and the [[Silurian]]s when they attacked an underwater base in the late 21st century to rid the Earth of humanity. Tegan watched as the Doctor defeated them by using a gas that was fatal to reptiles.([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (TV story)|Warriors of the Deep]]'')
 
   
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==== Marc joins ====
Eventually, the carnage of the early phase of the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War|Dalek civil war]] proved too much for Tegan to bear. She bid an emotional and accusatory farewell to the Doctor and Turlough in [[London]] in [[1984]] and ran off before the Doctor could respond. Even so, she ran back to see the TARDIS dematerialise, calling out her goodbyes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')
 
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The Doctor took Tegan and Nyssa to [[BC|63 BC]] [[Cumae]] so that he might meet [[Cicero]]. The three travellers were put through a series of tests by [[Tartarus]], along with Cicero and his [[slave]] [[Marcipor|Marc]], with the latter joining the TARDIS crew after becoming a freedman. Tegan knew of [[Talos]] from ''[[Jason and the Argonauts]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tartarus (audio story)|Tartarus]]'')
   
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On ''[[Proxima (space station)|Proxima]]'' in the [[30th century]], Tegan helped defeat [[Kalu|Professor Kalu]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Interstitial (audio story)|Interstitial]]'') In [[19th century]] [[Ireland]], she and Marc tracked down and rescued the Doctor and Nyssa from the [[Spae Wife]] and her [[carnival]]. She was able to remind Nyssa of who she was in order to remove the Spae Wife's influence. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Feast of Fear (audio story)|Feast of Fear]]'')
=== Life after the Doctor ===
 
[[File:Old_Tegan.JPG|thumb|left|An older Tegan with the Doctor. ([[DWM]] illustration of [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'')]]
 
After leaving the TARDIS for the second time, Tegan apparently continued working as an air stewardess for some time before returning to Brisbane to take over her father's animal-feed company.
 
   
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Landing on [[Samotis]], the TARDIS crew were drafted into the race ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Warzone (audio story)|Warzone]]'') and eventually came face to face once more with the Cybermen, who partially [[cyber-conversion|converted]] Marc. After restoring his memories, the Doctor left him, Tegan and Nyssa on [[Carlanna]] with a great deal of [[money]], feeling guilty over Marc's conversion. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Conversion (BFM audio story)|Conversion]]'')
On her 46th birthday, [[22 September]] [[2006]], Tegan was briefly reunited with the [[Fifth Doctor]], who discovered that she had been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour and had at most a year to live. Despite the Doctor's entreaty, Tegan chose to forgo his assistance in treating the tumour. She stated that she wished to remain on Earth, because she was happy with the life that she had. She rekindled her relationship with [[Michael Tanaka]]. She had previously ended the relationship because of her tumour. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'')
 
   
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==== Turlough joins ====
According to another account, Tegan [[Marriage|married]] [[William Haybourne]]. He died when they were both elderly. Tegan had by this point come to believe that her time with the Doctor was just her imagination. She came across a version of [[The Doctor (Good Companions)|the Doctor]] that she didn't recognise. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Companions (short story)|Good Companions]]'')
 
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On Earth, Tegan met two different versions of the [[retirement|retired]] [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]], whom she took a liking to. In contrast, she greatly distrusted [[Vislor Turlough]]. When she mistook [[Mawdryn]] for the a regenerating Doctor, Tegan was infected with his virus which caused her to age backwards until the Brigadier saved her thanks to the [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]]. Afterwards, Turlough joined the TARDIS crew, something that Tegan was not pleased with. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'')
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[[File:TeganInShadows.jpg|thumb|right|Tegan and [[Turlough]] onboard [[Terminus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'')]]
   
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Tegan, Nyssa and Turlough had to come together in the [[Gardens of the Dead]] to save the Doctor ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gardens of the Dead (audio story)|Gardens of the Dead]]'') and the two women persuaded the Doctor to save [[Ophiuchus]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ophiuchus (comic story)|Ophiuchus]]'') Thanks to Turlough's sabotage, the TARDIS ended up on ''[[Terminus]]'' where he and Tegan had to look for Nyssa. After Nyssa was cured of [[Lazar's disease]], she chose to remain and shared an emotional farewell with Tegan. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'')
According to research conducted by [[Sarah Jane Smith]], Tegan was still alive as of [[2010]], campaigning for Aboriginal rights. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')
 
   
 
In [[1904]] [[Russia]], Tegan and Turlough were separated from the Doctor and boarded a train to [[St Petersburg]], on which they investigated a murder. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Gudok (short story)|Gudok]]'') They later encountered the [[Eternal]]s and Tegan was forced to deal with the unwanted attentions of [[Marriner]], who did not love her so much as want to live vicariously through her emotions. During the same adventure, she saw Turlough turn from evil and reject the [[Black Guardian]]. This caused her to warm up to Turlough somewhat. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'')
== Personality ==
 
Tegan was stubborn, loud and direct, once describing herself as "just a mouth on legs." ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'') While she often bickered with her fellow travellers, her intrinsic honesty and morality proved useful. The Doctor once noted that these qualities made her a good coordinator. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') She was also more likely to detect a threat to the Doctor's safety than her fellow companions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'')
 
   
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After leaving the Eternals, the TARDIS landed in [[Buzzard Creek]], [[Arizona]] in [[1905]] where they came across a [[freakshow]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Freakshow (audio story)|Freakshow]]'') They also met [[Edward Grainger]], whom Tegan had already met in his personal future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Falling from Xi'an (short story)|Falling from Xi'an]]'')
Of her fellow travellers, she was likely closest to Nyssa, whose controlled nature was in many ways the precise opposite of her own. She was indignant at the Doctor's apparent unwillingness to save Adric's life ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') and genuinely saddened when Nyssa left. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'')
 
   
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==== With Turlough and an older Nyssa ====
On Deva Loka, Tegan argued with Adric after he suggested she was too weak-minded to defy the Mara and that the ensuing chaos was her fault. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'') However, she also showed concern for Adric's well-being when he was captured and tortured by [[the Master]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')
 
 
Two days after Nyssa left, Tegan, the Doctor and Turlough arrived on [[Helheim]] where they were reunited with Nyssa, fifty years older. They investigated a medical facility attempting to cure [[Richter's Syndrome]], after which Nyssa boarded the TARDIS to go home. However, Tegan pointed out that it would likely be some time before the Doctor managed to get her there. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cobwebs (audio story)|Cobwebs]]'')
   
Although she despised violence ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]''), she would resort to it under extreme circumstances. When the Master threatened the Doctor, Tegan immediately threw a knife at him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'') She also killed a [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] in [[2526]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
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On [[Chodor]] in the [[28th century]], the TARDIS crew uncovered the true origins of the corrupt society, after which they discovered that Tegan was still influenced by the Mara. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Whispering Forest (audio story)|The Whispering Forest]]'') The Mara left Tegan and possessed the Doctor before Tegan and Turlough expelled it with a circle of [[camera]]s and screens. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cradle of the Snake (audio story)|The Cradle of the Snake]]'')
   
 
[[File:Centre Fold Rat Trap.jpg|thumb|left|Tegan in the [[Cadogan Tunnels]] in [[1983]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rat Trap (audio story)|Rat Trap]]'')]]
The Doctor often encouraged her to find her inner strength with the words, "Brave heart, Tegan", ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (TV story)|Warriors of the Deep]]'') which he saw her saying as he [[regenerated]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'') She also muttered those word to herself after leaving the TARDIS and watching it dematerialise. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'') The first time that the Doctor said it to her was while they were in the [[Psychodrome]]. Although she told him that she found it annoying and asked him never to say it again, he did so on numerous subsequent occasions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Psychodrome (audio story)|Psychodrome]]'')
 
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Tegan, the Doctor, Turlough and Nyssa went up against the [[Sontaran]]s, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Heroes of Sontar (audio story)|Heroes of Sontar]]'') [[Rennol]] on [[Vektris]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kiss of Death (audio story)|Kiss of Death]]'') and the [[Rat King]] in [[England]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rat Trap (audio story)|Rat Trap]]'') before visiting [[Calcutta]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emerald Tiger (audio story)|The Emerald Tiger]]'') [[Eight slash Q Panenka]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Jupiter Conjunction (audio story)|The Jupiter Conjunction]]'') and the [[monkey house]] of a [[zoo]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Monkey House (audio story)|The Monkey House]]'')
   
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The Doctor tried to take the crew to [[William Jovanka|Tegan's father]]'s farm in [[1980s]] [[Brisbane]] but a hit by a [[Zygma beam]] meant that Nyssa and Turlough were transported to the [[51st century]] whilst Tegan and the Doctor remained in the console room. The two groups managed to find one another and defeat [[Magnus Greel]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Butcher of Brisbane (audio story)|The Butcher of Brisbane]]'') In [[2013]], Tegan and Turlough were infected by [[quartz]] and, at [[Mulkris]]'s bidding, destroyed [[Eldrad]]'s [[Eldrad's ring|ring]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eldrad Must Die! (audio story)|Eldrad Must Die!]]'')
== Other information ==
 
Tegan spoke one of the many indigenous Australian languages fluently. ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'')
 
   
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Accidentally arriving in [[E-Space]], Tegan encountered the [[Marshman|Marshmen]] on [[Adric]]'s home planet of [[Alzarius]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mistfall (audio story)|Mistfall]]'') and helped defeat [[Balancer Skaarsgard]] on [[Isenfel]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Equilibrium (audio story)|Equilibrium]]'') The crew also came up against the [[Sandman (The Entropy Plague)|Sandmen]] and Tegan was forced to say farewell to Nyssa as she chose to remain behind to power a [[portal]] to allow the TARDIS to return to [[N-Space]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Entropy Plague (audio story)|The Entropy Plague]]'')
She was a talented artist, sketching the latest fashions on Earth for [[Minister of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] to see. ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'') On another occasion, she drew a picture of two Cybermen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lackaday Express (short story)|Lackaday Express]]'')
 
   
 
==== Adventures with Kamelion ====
Before leaving [[Earth]], Tegan had seen ''[[Blake's 7]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')
 
 
[[File:TeganAtControlsKD.jpg|thumb|right|Tegan struggles at the [[TARDIS console]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'')]]
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In [[1215]] [[England]], Tegan, the Doctor and Turlough encountered {{Ainley}} and were joined in the TARDIS by [[Kamelion]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'') The Doctor tried to take them to the [[Eye of Orion]], en route to which a [[Phoenix (The Bird of Fire)|phoenix]] appeared in the TARDIS before the Doctor was able to trick it out. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bird of Fire (short story)|The Bird of Fire]]'') The remains of the Mara in Tegan's mind affected Kamelion and resulted in him being controlled by it for a brief time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mark of the Medusa (short story)|Mark of the Medusa]]'')
   
 
A few days after Kamelion joined, the crew landed in [[the Crystal Bucephalus]] where Tegan, the Doctor and Turlough were arrested for murder. Whilst briefly stranded in the mid-[[1980s]], Tegan met a teenage [[McDonald's]] employee named [[Ace]], who would later become a companion of the [[Seventh Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'')
At the age of three, Tegan didn't like [[ice cream]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'')
 
   
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Tegan did not trust Kamelion but apologised to Turlough for not having trusted him. She warmed to Kamelion somewhat after adventures at [[Rastana]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Devil in the Mist (audio story)|Devil in the Mist]]'') and [[Abertysswg]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black Thursday (audio story)|Black Thursday]]'') eventually standing up for him in [[1984]] [[York]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Power Game (audio story)|Power Game]]'') However, after a visit to [[Mekalion]] Kamelion decided that he was too dangerous to journey out of the TARDIS with Tegan, the Doctor and Turlough and chose to remain within the TARDIS. Despite how Tegan's feelings towards him had somewhat changed, she did not mind Kamelion's decision. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Kamelion Empire (audio story)|The Kamelion Empire]]'')
In terms of her personal politics, Tegan described herself as "a fully paid up Aussie republican" and "downright [[Communism|Bolshie]]." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Children of Seth (audio story)|The Children of Seth]]'')
 
   
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==== Final adventures ====
The [[renegade Time Lord|renegade]] [[Time Lord|Time Lady]] [[Iris Wildthyme]] met Tegan (as well as Adric and Nyssa) when she spent [[Christmas]] in the TARDIS on one occasion during the Doctor's fifth incarnation. Iris came to dislike Tegan, later describing her as "that shrill Australian woman." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Excelis Dawns (audio story)|Excelis Dawns]]'')
 
 
The Doctor took Tegan and Turlough to the [[Eye of Orion]] to relax. Soon enough, the pair were drafted into helping their travelling companion (as well as his [[First Doctor|first]], [[Second Doctor|second]] and [[Third Doctor|third selves]]) complete the [[Game of Rassilon]]. In the [[Death Zone]], she met [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]], [[Susan Foreman]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and spent an extended period of time with the First Doctor. After her Doctor was made [[Lord President]] in [[Borusa]]'s place, Tegan was surprised that he wanted to run from the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') She later met the [[Eighth Doctor]], who saved her, Turlough and the Fifth Doctor from a [[Raston Warrior Robot]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'')
   
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Tegan began to feel that the Doctor and Turlough shared a bond that she was not a part of and missed Nyssa. An attempt to show Turlough what the [[Fourth Doctor]] looked like resulted in Kamelion being overwhelmed by her memories of her [[Joy Jovanka|mother]], [[William Jovanka|father]] and [[Vanessa (Logopolis)|aunt]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Qualia (short story)|Qualia]]'') She once again encountered the [[Sontaran]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sontar's Little Helpers (short story)|Sontar's Little Helpers]]'') and the Master, who [[hypnosis|hypnotised]] her and made her stab the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Velvet Dark (short story)|The Velvet Dark]]'')
At one point during her travels with the Doctor, Tegan visited [[Nocturne]]. The [[Seventh Doctor]] later told his companions [[Ace]] and [[Hex]] that it was "a particularly lively visit." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nocturne (audio story)|Nocturne]]'')
 
   
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The trio visited [[Oxaqua]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Oxaqua Incident (short story)|The Oxaqua Incident]]'') [[Mesique]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Winter on Mesique (short story)|Winter on Mesique]]'') [[Melphis]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Class 4 Renegade (short story)|Class 4 Renegade]]'') [[Moon Village One]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lunar Strangers (comic story)|The Lunar Strangers]]'') and [[1980s]] London where they were reunited with the Brigadier. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nemertines (short story)|The Nemertimes]]'') They also visited the location between [[universe]]s, which Tegan named [[Ringpullworld]] and where [[Huxley (Ringpullworld)|Huxley]]'s prose style reminded her of Vanessa, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ringpullworld (audio story)|Ringpullworld]]'') and fought the Master and the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] once more. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'')
The Doctor once compared Tegan and Turlough to bickering siblings. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Freakshow (audio story)|Freakshow]]'') On another occasion, Turlough jokingly told Tegan that "stubbornness is one of Australia's greatest exports." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emerald Tiger (audio story)|The Emerald Tiger]]'')
 
   
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After receiving damage from [[Sentinel Six]], the Doctor landed the TARDIS inside [[Sea Base 4]] in [[2084]] where Tegan was taken hostage for a time by [[Nilson]]. When the Doctor released [[hexachromite gas]] into the base to stop the [[Silurian]]s and [[Sea Devil]]s from attacking, he asked Tegan and Turlough to give the Silurians oxygen but everyone died. ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (TV story)|Warriors of the Deep]]'') To recover, they visited [[Tayborough Sands]] where Tegan decided that she wanted to visit her grandfather, [[Andrew Verney]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deep Blue (novel)|Deep Blue]]'')
Nyssa considered Tegan to be her best friend. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emerald Tiger (audio story)|The Emerald Tiger]]'')
 
   
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In [[Little Hodcombe]], [[George Hutchinson]] tried to have Tegan burnt as the [[Queen of the May]], but she survived after she was switched for a straw figure at the last moment. The crew left with [[Will Chandler]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Awakening (TV story)|The Awakening]]'') who travelled with them for a month as the Doctor attempted to take him home. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The King of Terror (novel)|The King of Terror]]'') She met [[Peri Brown]] and [[Erimem]] at a [[cricket]] match attended by two versions of the Doctor and, that night, got drunk with them at a [[pub]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Graham Dilley Saves the World (short story)|Graham Dilley Saves the World]]'')
The [[Tiger|tigress]] [[Dawon]] once referred to Tegan as a "shrieking she-cat." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emerald Tiger (audio story)|The Emerald Tiger]]'')
 
   
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The TARDIS took Tegan to [[Lant Land]], which she believed to be a [[simulation]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lant Land (short story)|Lant Land]]'') [[21st century]] Earth for Christmas shopping where she had the most fun she had had since shooting a Cyberman, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Last Minute Shopping (short story)|Last Minute Shopping]]'') [[London]] where she helped undo [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s [[assassination]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Assassin's Story (short story)|The Assassin's Story]]'') [[Rome]] where she and Turlough were kidnapped by [[Sextus Cornelius]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rome (short story)|Rome]]'') the [[Isle of Mona]] in the [[11th century]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Fall of the Druids (short story)|The Fall of the Druids]]'') and to [[Allen Road]] where they met the [[Judoon]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'')
The Fifth Doctor used to hide from Tegan in the TARDIS' Cloister Room. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home (audio story)|No Place Like Home]]'')
 
   
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Landing on [[Frontios]], Tegan met humans from the [[far future]] and had to pretend to be an [[android]] in front of the [[Gravis]]. Tegan and the Doctor left in the TARDIS to take the Gravis to [[Kolkokron]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'') although they first accidentally landed on [[Queth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Life After Queth (short story)|Life After Queth]]'') After depositing the Gravis, the Doctor took Tegan to [[Africa]] on the last day of Earth ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Perfect Day (short story)|Perfect Day]]'') before they were summoned to [[Gallifrey]] where she met [[Leela]] and became [[Earth Ambassador to Gallifrey]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time in Office (audio story)|Time in Office]]'') They went on to visit [[Salient Point]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Keeping It Real (short story)|Keeping It Real]]'') [[Elizabeth II]]'s [[coronation]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Where's the Doctor? (comic story)|Where's the Doctor?]]'') [[Ann (Categorical Imperative)|Ann]]'s [[christening]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Categorical Imperative (short story)|Categorical Imperative]]'') [[Nocturne (planet)|Nocturne]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nocturne (audio story)|Nocturne]]'') and [[Camelot]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Creation of Camelot (short story)|The Creation of Camelot]]'') before returning for Turlough. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'')
Shortly before his death on [[31 December]] [[1926]], [[Cyril Haggard|Major Cyril Haggard]] referred to Tegan as "an Antipodean harpy." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emerald Tiger (audio story)|The Emerald Tiger]]'')
 
   
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[[File:Tegan goodbye.jpg|thumb|Tegan says goodbye to the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')]]
After he believed that she had been killed in [[India]] on [[31 December]] [[1926]], the Fifth Doctor told [[Adela Forster|Lady Adela Forster]] that Tegan was "very dear" to him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emerald Tiger (audio story)|The Emerald Tiger]]'')
 
   
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==== Departure ====
She believed that her first name was [[Welsh language|Welsh]] in origin. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Immortals (short story)|The Immortals]]'')
 
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A [[time corridor]] dragged the TARDIS to [[1984]] [[London]] where Tegan was knocked out after coming across a [[Dalek]]. She helped to defeat them, but the carnage of the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War|Dalek civil war]] disillusioned her to her travels in the TARDIS. Remembering what [[Vanessa (Logopolis)|Vanessa]] had told her when she started her job as an [[air stewardess]], she bid an emotional and accusatory farewell to the Doctor and Turlough and ran off before the Doctor could respond.
   
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Even so, she ran back in time to see the TARDIS dematerialise, calling out her goodbyes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'') She left the warehouse and escaped from [[Gustave Lytton]]'s policemen by jumping onto a boat. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (novelisation)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')
[[Harry Houdini]] was the first historical figure whom she met during her travels with the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Smoke and Mirrors (audio story)|Smoke and Mirrors]]'')
 
   
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Unbeknownst to her, Tegan left the TARDIS with damage to her [[brain]] which would result in a [[tumour]]. She would later ascribe it to the numerous times she was knocked out or possessed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'')
Tegan once told Nyssa that the [[England|English]] were "surly buggers." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (short story)|Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life]]'')
 
   
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=== Later life ===
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] once described Tegan as "a gobby Australian." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]'')
 
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After parting with the Doctor, Tegan returned to [[Brisbane]] using money that her family wired to her so that she might leave [[London]]. By [[1987]], she was running [[William Jovanka|her father]]'s farm ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat (short story)|Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat]]'') and rarely thought about her adventures in the TARDIS, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'') although she did give an interview to [[River Song]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[When It Was Fun (short story)|When It Was Fun]]'') and was, at some point, interviewed by [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] before having her mind wiped. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
   
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The Doctor visited her in 1987 to reassure her that she did not have to worry about the [[Mara]], as well as that her father would survive the [[snake]] bite that he suffered. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat (short story)|Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat]]'') When the Doctor was [[regeneration|regenerating]], he reached out psychically to his companions. Tegan said "brave heart" and told him that he would survive. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Winter (audio story)|Winter]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'')
Two days after she met Adric, Tegan told Nyssa that he "rubbed [her] up the wrong way" and accused him of being condescending and "a male chauvinist." Shortly afterwards, she described the Doctor as an "incompetent lunatic who talks gibberish."
 
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([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Psychodrome (audio story)|Psychodrome]]'')
 
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After her father died, she took over his animal feed company [[Verney Food Supplies]], a job that she did not find especially fulfilling. She lived a normal life with few friends other than colleagues that she did not like. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'')
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In the [[1990s]], she answered a small [[advert]] in ''[[Time Out]]'' magazine which called for anybody who knew what the word "TARDIS" meant. She went to London where she was reunited with [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and met [[Liz Shaw]], [[Jo Grant]] and [[Ace|Dorothy McShane]] and reminisced with them over [[wine]], although she was less positive than the others. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Girls' Night In (short story)|Girls' Night In]]'')
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Tegan embarked on a romantic relationship with [[Michael Tanaka]], a colleague of hers. However, she ended the relationship in [[2006]] after discovering that she had an inoperable brain tumour which she suspected was the result of her TARDIS misadventures. She was told that she was unlikely to live more than a year. On her birthday that year, she was reunited with the Doctor and refused his offer of travelling again or finding a [[cure]], telling him that she was happy with her life. She resumed her relationship with Michael.
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Despite only having been given a year to live, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'') Tegan was still alive in [[2010]], by which time she was, according to Sarah's research, campaigning for Aboriginal rights. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'') She entered into a relationship with [[Nyssa]], ([[WC]]: ''[[Farewell, Sarah Jane (webcast)|Farewell, Sarah Jane]]'') whom she had last seen in [[E-Space]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Entropy Plague (audio story)|The Entropy Plague]]'') and went with her to Sarah's [[funeral]] one [[spring]] day. The pair discussed Sarah with the other guests and helped fight the [[Jackals of the Backwards Clock]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[Farewell, Sarah Jane (webcast)|Farewell, Sarah Jane]]'')
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By the [[2020s]], Tegan had had a breakdown and was sent to [[Shawlands]] for [[therapy]] due to her stories about her time in the TARDIS, which were not only considered fanciful but also embarrassing for the government. She came to believe that her memories were delusions stemming from her [[trauma]] following Vanessa's death. Whilst at therapy, she developed her writing skills. After leaving, she [[marriage|married]] [[William Haybourne|Dr William Haybourne]] and lived with him in [[Cambridge]] after he was appointed chair at [[St Cedd's College]]. She wrote a book called ''[[Good Companions]]''.
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Fifty years after Vanessa's death and ten years after the Haybournes' [[wedding]], William fell ill whilst giving a lecture and died. On her way back to her empty home from the [[funeral]] in [[Exeter]], Tegan met [[The Doctor (Battlefield)|an incarnation of the Doctor]] that she did not know, calling himself Dr Smith, on a train. Although she played a role in helping defeat the [[Sigrarnon]]s, she believed that it was a [[dream]] and parted ways with him. After sorting out the matter of William's estate with their lawyer, she went looking for [[the Doctor's TARDIS|Dr Smith's house]], which she had visited, but was told by a policeman that there had not been a house at that address for years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Companions (short story)|Good Companions]]'')
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== Personality ==
 
Tegan was stubborn, loud and direct, describing herself as "just a [[mouth]] on [[leg]]s". ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') Although she did often bicker with her fellow travellers, she was intrinsically honest and moral, qualities that the [[Fifth Doctor]] noted made her a good coordinator. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') She was also more likely to detect a threat to the Doctor's safety than her fellow companions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'', ''[[Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead]]'') Nonetheless, she was described by [[Adric]] as "unreasonably highly strung", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]'') by [[Iris Wildthyme]] as "shrill" ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Excelis Dawns (audio story)|Excelis Dawns]]'') and by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as a "gobby Australian". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]'')
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In terms of her personal politics, Tegan described herself as "a fully paid up Aussie republican" and "downright [[Communism|Bolshie]]". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Children of Seth (audio story)|The Children of Seth]]'') She despised [[blood sport]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Equilibrium (audio story)|Equilibrium]]'') and violence, ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'') but was willing to resort to violence in extreme circumstances. She threw a [[knife]] at {{Ainley}} when he threatened the Doctor ([[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]]'') and shot and killed a [[Cyberman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
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Tegan was a talented artist, sketching the latest [[1980s]] fashions on Earth for [[Minister of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'') and a pair of Cybermen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lackaday Express (short story)|Lackaday Express]]'') However, she was not a fan of [[modern art]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Waters of Amsterdam (audio story)|The Waters of Amsterdam]]'') She was a skilled linguist, studying foreign languages at [[college]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') and being able to speak an [[Aborigine|Aboriginal]] language fluently. ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'') She was sympathetic to the status of the Aboriginal people in her time and campaigned for their rights in the [[21st century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')
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She considered [[Nyssa]] to be her best friend ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emerald Tiger (audio story)|The Emerald Tiger]]'') and was greatly saddened when she first left the TARDIS, ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'') once saying that Nyssa was "too good for this world" and that she wanted to be more like her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Aquitaine (audio story)|Aquitaine]]'') Although she often did not get along with Adric and believed him to be sexist, ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'') she did care for him and was indignant at the Doctor's apparent unwillingness to save Adric's life. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
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Tegan claimed that the Doctor often gave her "half pained, half patronising" looks and later described him as the most annoying man that she had ever met. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Aquitaine (audio story)|Aquitaine]]'') On one occasion, she derisively referred to the Doctor as a "posho". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Peterloo Massacre (audio story)|The Peterloo Massacre]]'') Despite this, the Doctor said that she was "very dear" to him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emerald Tiger (audio story)|The Emerald Tiger]]'')
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The Doctor often encouraged her to find her inner strength with the words, "Brave heart, Tegan". ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'', ''[[Warriors of the Deep (TV story)|Warriors of the Deep]]'', ''[[The Awakening (TV story)|The Awakening]]'') Although she told him that she found it annoying and asked him never to say it again, he did so on numerous subsequent occasions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Psychodrome (audio story)|Psychodrome]]'') He saw her saying the phrase back to him as he [[regenerated]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'') On one occasion, Tegan said, "Brave heart" to encourage Nyssa. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Star Men (audio story)|The Star Men]]'') She muttered those words to herself after leaving the TARDIS and watching it dematerialise. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')
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She was a fan of [[Talking Heads]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Waters of Amsterdam (audio story)|The Waters of Amsterdam]]'') and had seen ''[[Blake's 7]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')
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== Appearance ==
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Tegan was small, slender ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (novelisation)|Arc of Infinity]]'') and attractive, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (novelisation)|Warriors of the Deep]]'') with aggressively close-cropped, dark auburn hair. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Kinda (novelisation)|Kinda]]'', ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'') She gave off an efficient and determined aura. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Earthshock (novelisation)|Earthshock]]'')
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When she first travelled with the Doctor, she wore a neat purple uniform skirt and blouse ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', etc.) with stylish shoes, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Earthshock (novelisation)|Earthshock]]'') which she kept on to remind the Doctor that she wished to return home. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[When It Was Fun (short story)|When It Was Fun]]'') She did, however, change into a "spritely confection" of a taffeta dress for the party at [[Cranleigh Hall]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Black Orchid (novelisation)|Black Orchid]]'')
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Upon reuniting with the Doctor and Nyssa, Tegan wore a white jacket with matching shorts and a camisole top, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (novelisation)|Arc of Infinity]]'') an outfit that she wore for some time due to her possessions having been stored away. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Waters of Amsterdam (audio story)|The Waters of Amsterdam]]'') She later wore a rainbow-coloured dress with a white sash about her waist. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (novelisation)|Warriors of the Deep]]'', ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'')
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In her seventies, Tegan had hair as grey as a winter's day, having allowed her colour to grow out when she was sixty. Her hair reminded her of [[Joy Jovanka|her mother]]'s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Companions (short story)|Good Companions]]'')
   
 
== Behind the scenes ==
 
== Behind the scenes ==
 
* Janet Fielding appears in-character as Tegan with the [[Sixth Doctor]] in [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[A Fix with Sontarans]]'', a story which this wiki does not consider a [[valid source]].
* The reference to Tegan still being alive in 2010 is not necessarily a contradiction of her terminal condition in ''The Gathering'' as there are many real-life accounts of people surviving with tumours for much longer than predicted, and given her connection to the Doctor there's also the possibility an as-yet-unchronicled event changed her circumstances after ''The Gathering''. Also, the Doctor told System to help Tegan, and System did at some point go into production, as it was active in [[2021]] at [[St. Gart's Brookside Hospital]] in ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]''.
 
* Janet Fielding appears in-character as Tegan with the [[Sixth Doctor]] in [[NOTDWU]]: ''[[A Fix with Sontarans]]'', a story which this wiki does not consider a [[valid source]].
 
 
* According to [[REF]]: ''[[The Doctor: His Lives and Times]]'', Tegan gave a full account of her travels with the Doctor to a mysterious individual by the name of [[River Song|Dr Song]].
 
* According to [[REF]]: ''[[The Doctor: His Lives and Times]]'', Tegan gave a full account of her travels with the Doctor to a mysterious individual by the name of [[River Song|Dr Song]].
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* Tegan's name was borne from producer [[John Nathan-Turner]] suggesting Tegan (after an Australian girl he knew) or Jovanka (after the {{w|Jovanka Broz|First Lady of Yugoslavia}}) as given names to [[script editor]] [[Christopher H. Bidmead]]. Bidmead mistook "Tegan (Jovanka)" as the full name. ([[DWM 234]])
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* The character Tegan was created when [[Elisabeth Sladen]] and [[Louise Jameson]] couldn't reprise their roles as [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Leela]] respectively.<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/5v.html/</ref>
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Tegan Haybourne (née Jovanka) was a companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors and a temporary companion to the First Doctor during the Game of Rassilon in the Death Zone.

On her way to begin her job as an air stewardess at Heathrow Airport, Tegan wandered into the TARDIS and became embroiled in the events surrounding the Fourth Doctor's regeneration. She was initially an unwilling companion to the Fifth Doctor, travelling alongside Nyssa and Adric, but came to enjoy them, later being joined by Marc, Turlough and Kamelion. However, witnessing a Dalek slaughter made her decide to leave the Doctor as it had "stopped being fun".

Tegan lived an ordinary life on Earth and campaigned for Aboriginal rights. She had relationships with Michael Tanaka and Nyssa and eventually married William Haybourne.

Biography

Childhood

Tegan was born in Brisbane on 22 September, 1960 (AUDIO: The Gathering) to Bill (PROSE: Divided Loyalties) and Joy Jovanka. (PROSE: Qualia) She had several brothers. (PROSE: Qualia) Her father's parents, Mjovic and Sneshna Jovanka, were Serbian and emigrated from Yugoslavia to Australia, (PROSE: Cold Fusion) but had returned to their homeland by 1981, (PROSE: Divided Loyalties) whilst her maternal grandfather, Andrew Verney, was British. (TV: The Awakening)

Her extended family included her mother's siblings Vanessa (PROSE: Qualia) and Richard Frazer, who was married to Felicity and had two sons; Colin and Michael. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties) Tegan called Colin her favourite cousin. (TV: Arc of Infinity) She also had other cousins who worked in blast-mining in Australia. (AUDIO: The Contingency Club)

Tegan lived on a cattle farm when she was young, describing it as being as far away from civilisation as it could be. (AUDIO: Psychodrome) She tried ice cream when she was three and did not like it. (TV: Kinda) She was living on a sheep farm owned by her father by the early 1970s, (PROSE: Logopolis, AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane) which her father let her drive around in a tractor when she was ten. She was a natural driver but preferred aeroplanes, being allowed to fly her father's Cessna when she was older. (PROSE: Logopolis) One particular flight had not gone well due to turbulence. (PROSE: Time-Flight)

When she was a child, her mother took her to a corroboree, which gave her a recurring nightmare of strange white figures coming out of the dark. (AUDIO: Psychodrome) She played a spelling game called Magic Robot as a girl and was talented at drawing, a hobby that her father encouraged her to do. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)

Young Tegan

Tegan as she appeared as a child. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)

Tegan learnt how to dance the Charleston for a school play. (TV: Black Orchid) Not especially bright as a child, she often took the blame for others because she could not think up her own excuses. Her next door neighbour and best friend, Felicity Spoonsy, introduced her to cigarettes which got often got her in trouble and also seduced Gary Lovarik, whom Tegan fancied. (PROSE: The King of Terror) She went to school with another next door neighbour, Mike Bretherton, and was taught Physics and Chemistry by Miss Anderson. (AUDIO: Hexagora) When she was twelve, she played with Aboriginal children in the Outback at her uncle's farm. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)

At the age of thirteen, she made a deal with God that she would be good if He killed her grandmother, who died of a coronary thrombosis six weeks later. (PROSE: The King of Terror) She had been ill for more than six years, during which Tegan's parents kept her away to avoid upsetting her at so young an age. (AUDIO: Warzone) When she was fifteen, she broke her toe during track and gym, so Mike carried her books home for her. They had also dated at some point after this incident and despite breaking up, Tegan still remained fond of Mike. (AUDIO: Hexagora) She spent many a Saturday in Brisbane with her friends; Flis, Susannah, Dave and Richard, taking the ferry to the shops and buying clothes and records. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties) She once went to France as an exchange student. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus)

Move to London

After William had an affair with a twenty-year-old typist, Tegan moved away to the coast with Joy and went to boarding school, where she studied for a few terms before being expelled. She ran away to Sydney and squatted in Kings Cross before her father found her and sent her to live with her aunt Vanessa in London. (PROSE: The King of Terror) When she was eighteen, she was obsessed with music, R-rated films and boys. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)

Tegan later went to college (AUDIO: The Lady of Mercia) and studied foreign languages and Aboriginal culture, wanting to broaden her horizons and see the world. To that end, she spent most summers abroad, visiting Hong Kong in 1979 (PROSE: Cold Fusion) but never visiting the United States. Believing that it would be "a glamorous something to do", she decided to pursue a career as an air stewardess. (PROSE: The King of Terror) Vanessa told her to give up the job should it ever stop being fun. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)

Although she came from a Jewish family, Tegan was not religious. Despite this, she still prayed after her mother told her that Bill had been diagnosed with cancer and was retiring from the farm, giving it up to Tegan's uncle Richard. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)

First adventures in the TARDIS

Joining the Doctor

On 28 February, 1981, Vanessa agreed to drive Tegan to Heathrow Airport for her first day as an air stewardess. The car broke down in the London Borough of Barnet, prompting Tegan to wander into the TARDIS in search of help. The Fourth Doctor and Adric took off without knowing that Tegan was aboard, taking her to Logopolis. After they told her of the Tremas Master's murder of Vanessa using his Tissue Compression Eliminator, she helped them stop the Master's plans and the entropy he unleashed.

After the Master was defeated, Tegan witnessed the Doctor's fall and regeneration into his fifth incarnation. (TV: Logopolis) Knowing that the new Doctor needed a "responsible adult" to help him recover, and seeing herself as the only real candidate next to Adric and Nyssa, (PROSE: When It Was Fun) she helped get him back to the TARDIS and took off, going to Castrovalva where he recovered from his regeneration and they thwarted the Master again. (TV: Castrovalva)

Although the Doctor gave her a bedroom aboard the TARDIS, (AUDIO: Psychodrome) Tegan wanted to be taken to Heathrow and continued to wear her uniform to remind the Doctor and herself of the fact. (PROSE: When It Was Fun)

Attempts to return to Heathrow

After leaving Castrovalva, the TARDIS materialised on the Psychodrome where she was faced with her childhood nightmare about Aboriginal dancing. She also learnt that she had a subconscious grudge against the Doctor due to associating him with Vanessa's death. (AUDIO: Psychodrome) Three days after Logopolis, they landed on Scientifica where she met Chris Cwej, whose fake Australian accent annoyed her, calling it racist. (PROSE: Cold Fusion) They later landed on Isopterus where they faced giant termites (COMIC: On the Planet Isopterus) and on 1950s Earth, where she told Edward Grainger about Australia. (PROSE: First Born)

On Monarch's ship, Tegan sketched a man and woman for him which he used for the Minister of Enlightenment and the Minister of Persuasion's humanoid forms. The Doctor gave her a TARDIS key in the event that she was separated from the others. (TV: Four to Doomsday) After the TARDIS landed on Deva Loka, Tegan accidentally fell asleep at the place of shared dreams, allowing the Mara to enter her mind and possess her until it left her for Aris, a Kinda, after which it was seemingly destroyed using mirrors. (TV: Kinda)

Tegan-Mara

Tegan under the influence of the Mara. (TV: Kinda)

Another attempt to get Tegan to Heathrow resulted in the TARDIS landing in 1666 London where they faced the Terileptils, one of whom she hit with a gun. (TV: The Visitation) After escaping the Great Fire of London, the Celestial Toymaker attempted to turn them against one another, trying to do so with Tegan by showing her her father's funeral. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties) In the 11th century, Czar U'thai and his warriors tried to kidnap a European village's women, as well as Tegan. (PROSE: The Immortals)

She once argued with Adric and the Doctor when the helmic regulator had been reprogrammed (AUDIO: The Toy) and helped to defeat the Star Men, (AUDIO: The Star Men) the Red Queen (AUDIO: The Contingency Club) and Clarimonde, who mistook her for Jo Grant. (AUDIO: Zaltys) The first historical figure that Tegan met during her travels was Harry Houdini, whom the Master had convinced that the Doctor was evil. (AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors)

Enjoying her travels

After some time travelling, Tegan confessed to Adric that she had begun to enjoy travelling in the TARDIS and visited Cicero Prime, (AUDIO: Kingdom of Lies) Yorkshire at various points in time (AUDIO: Ghost Walk) and Argentia where she helped solve a murder. (AUDIO: Serpent in the Silver Mask) Tegan, Adric and Nyssa were kidnapped by Adam Mitchell for the Master, but they were saved by various incarnations of the Doctor. (COMIC: In Their Night, Endgame)

Having already admitted to Adric that she was starting to enjoy their adventures, (AUDIO: Kingdom of Lies) Tegan decided that she wanted to stay with the crew for a while and told the Doctor not to continue trying to take her to Heathrow. She strove to prove the Doctor innocent after he was accused of murder at Cranleigh Hall on 11 June, 1925, prior to which she had enjoyed the Cranleighs' party and showed talent at dancing the Charleston. (TV: Black Orchid) The crew celebrated Christmas in the TARDIS (PROSE: In the TARDIS: Christmas Day) and arrived on Lemaria during the celebration of another holiday, Freedom Day. (PROSE: The Constant Doctor)

They encountered the Dar Traders on Battlefield, where Tegan cradled Nyssa's body during her three minutes of death. Unbeknownst to Tegan, the Traders had foretold Adric's death. (AUDIO: The Darkening Eye) She helped to defeat the I Predator in 1981. (AUDIO: Iterations of I)

The crew landed on a planet of forests and statues where she argued with Adric, whom a gestalt entity prematurely mourned. (PROSE: Hearts of Stone) During a trip to 2526, she found herself facing the Cybermen for the first time. Adric lost his life when a ship crashed into Earth and Tegan was furious at the Doctor's refusal to go back in time and rescue him. (TV: Earthshock)

Left behind

Finally arriving at Heathrow Airport, albeit it in 1982, Tegan, the Doctor and Nyssa again thwarted the Master, after which the Doctor and Nyssa dematerialised in the TARDIS without Tegan. She ran out of the airport too late to catch them and was upset at having been left behind. (TV: Time-Flight)

Tegan's time as an air stewardess was short-lived after she assaulted an unruly passenger mid-flight, resulting in her being fired during her first year. During this time, she caught the attention of the android Kylex-12, who identified her as a time traveller. The two began a romantic relationship, but Tegan found him over-attentive and broke up with him just as he prepared to propose to her. (AUDIO: The Waters of Amsterdam)

Continued adventures

Rejoining the TARDIS crew

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Tegan in the Matrix with Omega and the Doctor. (TV: Arc of Infinity)

In January 1983, Tegan went to Amsterdam to visit her cousin Colin Frazer, only to find that he had disappeared, having been captured by Omega to lure Tegan to him. He used Tegan as leverage in his plan to create a new body for himself using the Doctor. Once the process was done and had begun to fail, Tegan reunited with the Doctor and Nyssa and watched Omega's defeat before he could revert to anti-matter and destroy Earth. (TV: Arc of Infinity)

Tegan was approached by Kyle, whom she rebuffed before he directed her and the Doctor to a Rembrandt van Rijn exhibit showcasing drawings of spacecraft. At the museum, they encountered the Nix and became aware of Teldek, later learning of Kyle's connection to her. After Teldek's defeat, Kyle accepted that Tegan did not love him and decided to continue living in the hope that he could find someone who would. Before Tegan and Nyssa entered the TARDIS, the Doctor went on a number of adventures without them, returning a few days later for them. (AUDIO: The Waters of Amsterdam) She was annoyed to find that her things had been put in storage. (AUDIO: The Elite)

Travelling by choice

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Tegan becomes a vampire. (COMIC: Blood Invocation)

After leaving Amsterdam, the Doctor took Tegan and Nyssa to Florana where they came across a Dalek known as the High Priest and Tegan led a band of rebels in what she had wanted to be a bloodless revolution. (AUDIO: The Elite) To recover after Florana, the trio stayed in Brisbane for several days before Tegan found that Mike Bretherton had disappeared. They managed to find him, turned into an insect, and Tegan told him that she had loved him. (AUDIO: Hexagora)

Tegan began having dreams of snakes due to her connection to the Mara. She helped defeat the Dark on Akoshemon's moon,(PROSE: Fear of the Dark) Byzan and Albis on Sirius, (AUDIO: The Children of Seth) Vi'Al, (PROSE: The God Machine) the Voorvolika, (PROSE: The Armageddon Chrysalis) Carnak (PROSE: The Haven) and the Dren. (PROSE: The Penalty)

After returning to Heathrow so that Tegan might meet a friend, the TARDIS crew met and defeated the Master (PROSE: Night Flight to Nowhere) and later saved the universe from a cyclotron. (PROSE: Lackaday Express) In 1896, Tegan attempted to change time slightly but events remained unchanged, just as the Doctor expected. (PROSE: The Sands of Time) They also visited Morestra (PROSE: Zeta Major) the Necropolitan to mourn Adric (PROSE: Wake) and 493 Ravenna. (PROSE: Goths and Robbers)

On an old Earth colony, Tegan was taken prisoner by Anna for company. Tegan managed to escape, after which the Doctor and Nyssa told her that Anna had only been an imprint and not, strictly speaking, real. (PROSE: Soul Mate) Tegan felt left out on F-four because of her lack of scientific knowledge and wandered off, uncovering the truth behind a deadly disease. (PROSE: No Exit)

Tegan and Nyssa asked the Doctor to teach them how to properly fly the TARDIS. (PROSE: Men of the Earth) Under the influence of the Mara, Tegan set the coordinates to Manussa where she attempted to suppress the monster. However, she was unable to and helped it feed on the negative emotions of those at a ceremony celebrating its defeat. The Doctor managed to defeat it and believed himself to have permanently freed Tegan from its possession. (TV: Snakedance) Recovering from Manussa, Tegan, the Doctor and Nyssa went on holiday in Tasmania where they encountered vampires, (PROSE: Goth Opera) just as they later would on Gallifrey. (COMIC: Blood Invocation)

Tegan and Nyssa were chased by Endovorms in the form of lions at Trafalgar Square, (AUDIO: The Lions of Trafalgar) and helped the Doctor defeat the Akunites aboard the HMS Aquitaine. (AUDIO: Aquitaine) Tegan witnessed the Peterloo Massacre and was appalled at the conditions of the factories in Manchester. (AUDIO: The Peterloo Massacre) The Doctor told them that he would take them to the 2012 Olympics but instead landed in 1982, (AUDIO: The King of the Dead) later taking them to Mistpuddle where they solved a murder. (AUDIO: The Mistpuddle Murders)

Marc joins

The Doctor took Tegan and Nyssa to 63 BC Cumae so that he might meet Cicero. The three travellers were put through a series of tests by Tartarus, along with Cicero and his slave Marc, with the latter joining the TARDIS crew after becoming a freedman. Tegan knew of Talos from Jason and the Argonauts. (AUDIO: Tartarus)

On Proxima in the 30th century, Tegan helped defeat Professor Kalu. (AUDIO: Interstitial) In 19th century Ireland, she and Marc tracked down and rescued the Doctor and Nyssa from the Spae Wife and her carnival. She was able to remind Nyssa of who she was in order to remove the Spae Wife's influence. (AUDIO: Feast of Fear)

Landing on Samotis, the TARDIS crew were drafted into the race (AUDIO: Warzone) and eventually came face to face once more with the Cybermen, who partially converted Marc. After restoring his memories, the Doctor left him, Tegan and Nyssa on Carlanna with a great deal of money, feeling guilty over Marc's conversion. (AUDIO: Conversion)

Turlough joins

On Earth, Tegan met two different versions of the retired Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, whom she took a liking to. In contrast, she greatly distrusted Vislor Turlough. When she mistook Mawdryn for the a regenerating Doctor, Tegan was infected with his virus which caused her to age backwards until the Brigadier saved her thanks to the Blinovitch Limitation Effect. Afterwards, Turlough joined the TARDIS crew, something that Tegan was not pleased with. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)

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Tegan and Turlough onboard Terminus. (TV: Terminus)

Tegan, Nyssa and Turlough had to come together in the Gardens of the Dead to save the Doctor (AUDIO: Gardens of the Dead) and the two women persuaded the Doctor to save Ophiuchus. (COMIC: Ophiuchus) Thanks to Turlough's sabotage, the TARDIS ended up on Terminus where he and Tegan had to look for Nyssa. After Nyssa was cured of Lazar's disease, she chose to remain and shared an emotional farewell with Tegan. (TV: Terminus)

In 1904 Russia, Tegan and Turlough were separated from the Doctor and boarded a train to St Petersburg, on which they investigated a murder. (PROSE: Gudok) They later encountered the Eternals and Tegan was forced to deal with the unwanted attentions of Marriner, who did not love her so much as want to live vicariously through her emotions. During the same adventure, she saw Turlough turn from evil and reject the Black Guardian. This caused her to warm up to Turlough somewhat. (TV: Enlightenment)

After leaving the Eternals, the TARDIS landed in Buzzard Creek, Arizona in 1905 where they came across a freakshow. (AUDIO: Freakshow) They also met Edward Grainger, whom Tegan had already met in his personal future. (PROSE: Falling from Xi'an)

With Turlough and an older Nyssa

Two days after Nyssa left, Tegan, the Doctor and Turlough arrived on Helheim where they were reunited with Nyssa, fifty years older. They investigated a medical facility attempting to cure Richter's Syndrome, after which Nyssa boarded the TARDIS to go home. However, Tegan pointed out that it would likely be some time before the Doctor managed to get her there. (AUDIO: Cobwebs)

On Chodor in the 28th century, the TARDIS crew uncovered the true origins of the corrupt society, after which they discovered that Tegan was still influenced by the Mara. (AUDIO: The Whispering Forest) The Mara left Tegan and possessed the Doctor before Tegan and Turlough expelled it with a circle of cameras and screens. (AUDIO: The Cradle of the Snake)

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Tegan in the Cadogan Tunnels in 1983. (AUDIO: Rat Trap)

Tegan, the Doctor, Turlough and Nyssa went up against the Sontarans, (AUDIO: Heroes of Sontar) Rennol on Vektris (AUDIO: Kiss of Death) and the Rat King in England (AUDIO: Rat Trap) before visiting Calcutta, (AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger) Eight slash Q Panenka (AUDIO: The Jupiter Conjunction) and the monkey house of a zoo. (AUDIO: The Monkey House)

The Doctor tried to take the crew to Tegan's father's farm in 1980s Brisbane but a hit by a Zygma beam meant that Nyssa and Turlough were transported to the 51st century whilst Tegan and the Doctor remained in the console room. The two groups managed to find one another and defeat Magnus Greel. (AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane) In 2013, Tegan and Turlough were infected by quartz and, at Mulkris's bidding, destroyed Eldrad's ring. (AUDIO: Eldrad Must Die!)

Accidentally arriving in E-Space, Tegan encountered the Marshmen on Adric's home planet of Alzarius (AUDIO: Mistfall) and helped defeat Balancer Skaarsgard on Isenfel. (AUDIO: Equilibrium) The crew also came up against the Sandmen and Tegan was forced to say farewell to Nyssa as she chose to remain behind to power a portal to allow the TARDIS to return to N-Space. (AUDIO: The Entropy Plague)

Adventures with Kamelion

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Tegan struggles at the TARDIS console. (TV: The King's Demons)

In 1215 England, Tegan, the Doctor and Turlough encountered the Tremas Master and were joined in the TARDIS by Kamelion. (TV: The King's Demons) The Doctor tried to take them to the Eye of Orion, en route to which a phoenix appeared in the TARDIS before the Doctor was able to trick it out. (PROSE: The Bird of Fire) The remains of the Mara in Tegan's mind affected Kamelion and resulted in him being controlled by it for a brief time. (PROSE: Mark of the Medusa)

A few days after Kamelion joined, the crew landed in the Crystal Bucephalus where Tegan, the Doctor and Turlough were arrested for murder. Whilst briefly stranded in the mid-1980s, Tegan met a teenage McDonald's employee named Ace, who would later become a companion of the Seventh Doctor. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus)

Tegan did not trust Kamelion but apologised to Turlough for not having trusted him. She warmed to Kamelion somewhat after adventures at Rastana (AUDIO: Devil in the Mist) and Abertysswg, (AUDIO: Black Thursday) eventually standing up for him in 1984 York. (AUDIO: Power Game) However, after a visit to Mekalion Kamelion decided that he was too dangerous to journey out of the TARDIS with Tegan, the Doctor and Turlough and chose to remain within the TARDIS. Despite how Tegan's feelings towards him had somewhat changed, she did not mind Kamelion's decision. (AUDIO: The Kamelion Empire)

Final adventures

The Doctor took Tegan and Turlough to the Eye of Orion to relax. Soon enough, the pair were drafted into helping their travelling companion (as well as his first, second and third selves) complete the Game of Rassilon. In the Death Zone, she met Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Susan Foreman and Sarah Jane Smith and spent an extended period of time with the First Doctor. After her Doctor was made Lord President in Borusa's place, Tegan was surprised that he wanted to run from the Time Lords. (TV: The Five Doctors) She later met the Eighth Doctor, who saved her, Turlough and the Fifth Doctor from a Raston Warrior Robot. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)

Tegan began to feel that the Doctor and Turlough shared a bond that she was not a part of and missed Nyssa. An attempt to show Turlough what the Fourth Doctor looked like resulted in Kamelion being overwhelmed by her memories of her mother, father and aunt. (PROSE: Qualia) She once again encountered the Sontarans (PROSE: Sontar's Little Helpers) and the Master, who hypnotised her and made her stab the Doctor. (PROSE: The Velvet Dark)

The trio visited Oxaqua, (PROSE: The Oxaqua Incident) Mesique, (PROSE: Winter on Mesique) Melphis, (PROSE: Class 4 Renegade) Moon Village One, (COMIC: The Lunar Strangers) and 1980s London where they were reunited with the Brigadier. (PROSE: The Nemertimes) They also visited the location between universes, which Tegan named Ringpullworld and where Huxley's prose style reminded her of Vanessa, (AUDIO: Ringpullworld) and fought the Master and the Cybermen once more. (PROSE: Birth of a Renegade)

After receiving damage from Sentinel Six, the Doctor landed the TARDIS inside Sea Base 4 in 2084 where Tegan was taken hostage for a time by Nilson. When the Doctor released hexachromite gas into the base to stop the Silurians and Sea Devils from attacking, he asked Tegan and Turlough to give the Silurians oxygen but everyone died. (TV: Warriors of the Deep) To recover, they visited Tayborough Sands where Tegan decided that she wanted to visit her grandfather, Andrew Verney. (PROSE: Deep Blue)

In Little Hodcombe, George Hutchinson tried to have Tegan burnt as the Queen of the May, but she survived after she was switched for a straw figure at the last moment. The crew left with Will Chandler, (TV: The Awakening) who travelled with them for a month as the Doctor attempted to take him home. (PROSE: The King of Terror) She met Peri Brown and Erimem at a cricket match attended by two versions of the Doctor and, that night, got drunk with them at a pub. (PROSE: Graham Dilley Saves the World)

The TARDIS took Tegan to Lant Land, which she believed to be a simulation, (AUDIO: Lant Land) 21st century Earth for Christmas shopping where she had the most fun she had had since shooting a Cyberman, (PROSE: Last Minute Shopping) London where she helped undo Margaret Thatcher's assassination, (PROSE: The Assassin's Story) Rome where she and Turlough were kidnapped by Sextus Cornelius, (PROSE: Rome) the Isle of Mona in the 11th century (PROSE: The Fall of the Druids) and to Allen Road where they met the Judoon. (COMIC: The Forgotten)

Landing on Frontios, Tegan met humans from the far future and had to pretend to be an android in front of the Gravis. Tegan and the Doctor left in the TARDIS to take the Gravis to Kolkokron, (TV: Frontios) although they first accidentally landed on Queth. (PROSE: Life After Queth) After depositing the Gravis, the Doctor took Tegan to Africa on the last day of Earth (PROSE: Perfect Day) before they were summoned to Gallifrey where she met Leela and became Earth Ambassador to Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Time in Office) They went on to visit Salient Point, (PROSE: Keeping It Real) Elizabeth II's coronation, (COMIC: Where's the Doctor?) Ann's christening, (PROSE: Categorical Imperative) Nocturne (AUDIO: Nocturne) and Camelot (PROSE: The Creation of Camelot) before returning for Turlough. (TV: Frontios)

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Tegan says goodbye to the Doctor. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)

Departure

A time corridor dragged the TARDIS to 1984 London where Tegan was knocked out after coming across a Dalek. She helped to defeat them, but the carnage of the Dalek civil war disillusioned her to her travels in the TARDIS. Remembering what Vanessa had told her when she started her job as an air stewardess, she bid an emotional and accusatory farewell to the Doctor and Turlough and ran off before the Doctor could respond.

Even so, she ran back in time to see the TARDIS dematerialise, calling out her goodbyes. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks) She left the warehouse and escaped from Gustave Lytton's policemen by jumping onto a boat. (PROSE: Resurrection of the Daleks)

Unbeknownst to her, Tegan left the TARDIS with damage to her brain which would result in a tumour. She would later ascribe it to the numerous times she was knocked out or possessed. (AUDIO: The Gathering)

Later life

After parting with the Doctor, Tegan returned to Brisbane using money that her family wired to her so that she might leave London. By 1987, she was running her father's farm (PROSE: Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat) and rarely thought about her adventures in the TARDIS, (AUDIO: The Gathering) although she did give an interview to River Song (PROSE: When It Was Fun) and was, at some point, interviewed by UNIT before having her mind wiped. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)

The Doctor visited her in 1987 to reassure her that she did not have to worry about the Mara, as well as that her father would survive the snake bite that he suffered. (PROSE: Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat) When the Doctor was regenerating, he reached out psychically to his companions. Tegan said "brave heart" and told him that he would survive. (AUDIO: Winter; TV: The Caves of Androzani)

After her father died, she took over his animal feed company Verney Food Supplies, a job that she did not find especially fulfilling. She lived a normal life with few friends other than colleagues that she did not like. (AUDIO: The Gathering)

In the 1990s, she answered a small advert in Time Out magazine which called for anybody who knew what the word "TARDIS" meant. She went to London where she was reunited with Sarah Jane Smith and met Liz Shaw, Jo Grant and Dorothy McShane and reminisced with them over wine, although she was less positive than the others. (PROSE: Girls' Night In)

Tegan embarked on a romantic relationship with Michael Tanaka, a colleague of hers. However, she ended the relationship in 2006 after discovering that she had an inoperable brain tumour which she suspected was the result of her TARDIS misadventures. She was told that she was unlikely to live more than a year. On her birthday that year, she was reunited with the Doctor and refused his offer of travelling again or finding a cure, telling him that she was happy with her life. She resumed her relationship with Michael.

Despite only having been given a year to live, (AUDIO: The Gathering) Tegan was still alive in 2010, by which time she was, according to Sarah's research, campaigning for Aboriginal rights. (TV: Death of the Doctor) She entered into a relationship with Nyssa, (WC: Farewell, Sarah Jane) whom she had last seen in E-Space, (AUDIO: The Entropy Plague) and went with her to Sarah's funeral one spring day. The pair discussed Sarah with the other guests and helped fight the Jackals of the Backwards Clock. (WC: Farewell, Sarah Jane)

By the 2020s, Tegan had had a breakdown and was sent to Shawlands for therapy due to her stories about her time in the TARDIS, which were not only considered fanciful but also embarrassing for the government. She came to believe that her memories were delusions stemming from her trauma following Vanessa's death. Whilst at therapy, she developed her writing skills. After leaving, she married Dr William Haybourne and lived with him in Cambridge after he was appointed chair at St Cedd's College. She wrote a book called Good Companions.

Fifty years after Vanessa's death and ten years after the Haybournes' wedding, William fell ill whilst giving a lecture and died. On her way back to her empty home from the funeral in Exeter, Tegan met an incarnation of the Doctor that she did not know, calling himself Dr Smith, on a train. Although she played a role in helping defeat the Sigrarnons, she believed that it was a dream and parted ways with him. After sorting out the matter of William's estate with their lawyer, she went looking for Dr Smith's house, which she had visited, but was told by a policeman that there had not been a house at that address for years. (PROSE: Good Companions)

Personality

Tegan was stubborn, loud and direct, describing herself as "just a mouth on legs". (TV: Earthshock) Although she did often bicker with her fellow travellers, she was intrinsically honest and moral, qualities that the Fifth Doctor noted made her a good coordinator. (TV: Castrovalva) She was also more likely to detect a threat to the Doctor's safety than her fellow companions. (TV: Castrovalva, Mawdryn Undead) Nonetheless, she was described by Adric as "unreasonably highly strung", (AUDIO: The Toy) by Iris Wildthyme as "shrill" (AUDIO: Excelis Dawns) and by the Eleventh Doctor as a "gobby Australian". (TV: The Crimson Horror)

In terms of her personal politics, Tegan described herself as "a fully paid up Aussie republican" and "downright Bolshie". (AUDIO: The Children of Seth) She despised blood sports (AUDIO: Equilibrium) and violence, (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks) but was willing to resort to violence in extreme circumstances. She threw a knife at the Tremas Master when he threatened the Doctor (TV: The King's Demons) and shot and killed a Cyberman. (TV: Earthshock)

Tegan was a talented artist, sketching the latest 1980s fashions on Earth for Enlightenment (TV: Four to Doomsday) and a pair of Cybermen. (PROSE: Lackaday Express) However, she was not a fan of modern art. (AUDIO: The Waters of Amsterdam) She was a skilled linguist, studying foreign languages at college (PROSE: Cold Fusion) and being able to speak an Aboriginal language fluently. (TV: Four to Doomsday) She was sympathetic to the status of the Aboriginal people in her time and campaigned for their rights in the 21st century. (TV: Death of the Doctor)

She considered Nyssa to be her best friend (AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger) and was greatly saddened when she first left the TARDIS, (TV: Terminus) once saying that Nyssa was "too good for this world" and that she wanted to be more like her. (AUDIO: Aquitaine) Although she often did not get along with Adric and believed him to be sexist, (TV: Four to Doomsday) she did care for him and was indignant at the Doctor's apparent unwillingness to save Adric's life. (TV: Earthshock)

Tegan claimed that the Doctor often gave her "half pained, half patronising" looks and later described him as the most annoying man that she had ever met. (AUDIO: Aquitaine) On one occasion, she derisively referred to the Doctor as a "posho". (AUDIO: The Peterloo Massacre) Despite this, the Doctor said that she was "very dear" to him. (AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger)

The Doctor often encouraged her to find her inner strength with the words, "Brave heart, Tegan". (TV: Earthshock, Enlightenment, Warriors of the Deep, The Awakening) Although she told him that she found it annoying and asked him never to say it again, he did so on numerous subsequent occasions. (AUDIO: Psychodrome) He saw her saying the phrase back to him as he regenerated. (TV: The Caves of Androzani) On one occasion, Tegan said, "Brave heart" to encourage Nyssa. (AUDIO: The Star Men) She muttered those words to herself after leaving the TARDIS and watching it dematerialise. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)

She was a fan of Talking Heads (AUDIO: The Waters of Amsterdam) and had seen Blake's 7. (PROSE: Cold Fusion)

Appearance

Tegan was small, slender (PROSE: Arc of Infinity) and attractive, (PROSE: Warriors of the Deep) with aggressively close-cropped, dark auburn hair. (PROSE: Kinda, The Eight Doctors) She gave off an efficient and determined aura. (PROSE: Earthshock)

When she first travelled with the Doctor, she wore a neat purple uniform skirt and blouse (TV: Logopolis, etc.) with stylish shoes, (PROSE: Earthshock) which she kept on to remind the Doctor that she wished to return home. (PROSE: When It Was Fun) She did, however, change into a "spritely confection" of a taffeta dress for the party at Cranleigh Hall. (PROSE: Black Orchid)

Upon reuniting with the Doctor and Nyssa, Tegan wore a white jacket with matching shorts and a camisole top, (PROSE: Arc of Infinity) an outfit that she wore for some time due to her possessions having been stored away. (AUDIO: The Waters of Amsterdam) She later wore a rainbow-coloured dress with a white sash about her waist. (PROSE: Warriors of the Deep, The Eight Doctors)

In her seventies, Tegan had hair as grey as a winter's day, having allowed her colour to grow out when she was sixty. Her hair reminded her of her mother's. (PROSE: Good Companions)

Behind the scenes

Footnotes