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Companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors. She was a spiky, argumentative and bossy Australian air-stewardess who met the Fourth Doctor and Adric when she stumbled into the TARDIS believing it to be a real police box, soon after the Master had killed her aunt, Vanessa (5V).

She travelled with the Docotr to Logopolis and helped him defeat the Master. She watched the Fourth Doctor regenerate, and fought the Master again on Castrovalva. Afterwards, she helped the Fifth Doctor against Monarch, the Mara (which possessed her), the Terileptils, George Cranleigh, the Cybermen and the Master yet again (disguised as Kalid).

She was accidentally left behind when the TARDIS dematerialized in Heathrow, but rejoined the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa in Amsterdam, where she helped them free her cousin Colin and defeat Omega (6E). She then again fell under the Mara's control.

Soon afterwards, she met the Brigadier and Turlough (whom she mistrusted) as the Fifth Doctor fought Mawdryn. She aided him in his battles against Terminus, Inc., the Eternals, the Master (disguised as Sir Gilles Estram) and Borusa, during which she teamed up with the First Doctor and met the Second and Third Doctors (6K).

She then fought the Silurians and the Sea Devils. When the Doctor took her to visit her grandfather, Andrew Verney, in Little Hodcombe, she was chosen to become the Queen of May, a human sacrifice to the Malus (6M). She fought the Tractators on Frontios, and finally the Daleks.

However, Tegan became increasingly aware of the vast amount of people she met who died during battles with Silurians, Tractators and finally Daleks. Distraught, Tegan fled from the TARDIS, explaining that she had seen enough death and destruction. She remained on Earth (6P).

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Janet Mahoney - now better known by her stage name of Janet Fielding - was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1957, She the surname Fielding as her stage name, calling herself after her Grandmother (who was also an actress).

She gained A levels in Physics, Chemistry and Maths before heading to University, where she first took up acting. She attended the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, graduating with a BA honors degree in English and Drama. She comes from an academic/medical family. The daughter of a doctor, her two brothers attended the same university as herself - one graduating with a degree in Medicine and the other with a degree in Dentistry.

After leaving university she worked in several theatre companies in Australia before an English writer/director named Albert Hunt, who in 1977 brought her to England in one of his shows. Once in England she joined Ken Campbell at the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool and

appeared in productions including "The Warp" and "The End is Nigh."
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Following this she won a small part in an episode of the 1980 "Hammer House of Horror" series. She was then cast as 'Tegan' in "Doctor Who". Janet was married to Nick Davies, a Daily Mirror journalist, in 1982. (and later seperated from him).

After leaving the series in 1984 she appeared in episodes of "Shelley" and "Minder" on TV as well as the film "Murphy's Mob" (1984), and in productions of "The Collector" and the pantomime "Aladdin" in the theatre.

In 1991 she gave up acting to work as an administrator in the pressure group Women in Film and Television, where she stayed for three and a half years. She then became a director of Marina Martin Associates, an actor's agency, representing amongst others the eighth Doctor, Paul McGann.

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