Creator / Janet Fielding

Janet Fielding (born 9 September 1953) is an Australian actress. Based in the UK for most of her career, she is best known for playing Doctor Who companion Tegan Jovanka from 1981 to 1984. She joined the show in "Logopolis", the final serial to feature Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor, and remained on the show for almost the entirety of Peter Davison's run as the Fifth Doctor, departing two stories before Davison in "Resurrection of the Daleks".

Since leaving Doctor Who, she has often been critical of the show during her time on it, frequently complaining about the way she and her fellow companions were treated. This reached its highpoint with a notorious on-stage outburst at Panopticon 1993 when she told a room full of fans that any show that treated its female characters as badly as Doctor Who did deserved to have been cancelled.

She has also blamed Doctor Who for killing her acting career; having achieved limited success in the years since leaving the show, in 1991 she gave up acting to become a theatrical agent. Her clients included Paul McGann, who was cast as the Eighth Doctor while represented by her.

For a long time, she declined to reprise her role as Tegan for Big Finish audio plays, but she agreed to make a one-off appearance in "The Gathering" (2006), and eventually returned on a regular basis starting with "Cobwebs" (2010).

Works with pages on TV Tropes that she has appeared in:

Live-action TV

• Hammer House of Horror: episode "Charlie Boy" (1980) — Secretary
• Minder: episode "Windows" (1984) — Janice
• Doctor Who: 66 episodes / 20 stories^{show list} "Logopolis", "Castrovalva", "Four to Doomsday", "Kinda", "The Visitation", "Black Orchid", "Earthshock", "Time-Flight", "Arc of Infinity", "Snakedance", "Mawdryn Undead", "Terminus", "Enlightenment", "The King's Demons", "Warriors of the Deep", "The Awakening", "Frontios", "Resurrection of the Daleks", "The Caves of Androzani", "The Power of the Doctor" (1981-84, 2022) — Tegan Jovanka
• Jim'll Fix It / Doctor Who crossover: "A Fix With Sontarans" (1985) — Tegan Jovanka

Audio Play

• Big Finish Doctor Who:
  • Main Range: 37 releases^{show list} "The Gathering", "Cobwebs", , "The Whispering Forest", "The Cradle of the Snake", "Heroes of Sontar", "Kiss of Death", "Rat Trap", "The Emerald Tiger", "The Jupiter Conjunction", "The Butcher of Brisbane", "Eldrad Must Die!", "The Lady Of Mercia", "Prisoners Of Fate", "Mistfall", "Equilibrium", "The Entropy Plague", "The Waters of Amsterdam", "Aquitaine", "The Peterloo Massacre", "The Star Men", "The Contingency Club", "Zaltys", "Time In Office", "Kingdom of Lies", "Ghost Walk", "Serpent in the Silver Mask", "Devil in the Mist", "Black Thursday/Power Game", "The Kamelion Empire", "Tartarus", "Interstitial/Feast of Fear", "Warzone/Conversion", "Thin Time/Madquake" (2006-2020) — Tegan Jovanka
  • Special Release "The Light At The End" (2013) — Tegan Jovanka
  • The Lost Stories: 4 releases^{show list} "The Elite", "Hexagora", "The Children of Seth", "Nightmare Country" (2011-19) — Tegan Jovanka
  • The Fifth Doctor Adventures: 8 releases^{show list} "Psychodrome", "The Iterations of I", "The Lost Resort", "The Perils of Nellie Bly", "Nightmare of the Daleks", "Secrets of Telos", "God of War", "The Auton Infinity" (2014-22) — Tegan Jovanka
  • Novel Adaptations: "Cold Fusion" (2016) — Tegan Jovanka
  • Destiny of the Doctor: "Smoke and Mirrors" (2013) — Tegan Jovanka

Western Animation

• Prisoner Zero: episode "Breakout" (2016) — Dr. Mendez

Tropes associated with her work include:

• Stage Name: She was born Janet Mahoney, and adopted Fielding as a stage surname. It was the surname of her grandmother, who was also an actress.

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