On 28 February 1981, Vanessa agreed to drive Tegan to Heathrow Airport for her first day as an air stewardess. ( PROSE: Divided Loyalties)įirst adventures in the TARDIS Joining the Doctor 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. ( TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)Īlthough she came from a Jewish family, Tegan was not religious. ( PROSE: The King of Terror) Vanessa told her to give up the job should it ever stop being fun. Believing that it would be "a glamorous something to do", she decided to pursue a career as an air stewardess. To that end, she spent most summers abroad, visiting Hong Kong in 1979 ( PROSE: Cold Fusion) but never visiting the United States. 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. ( AUDIO: Devil in the Mist) When she was eighteen, she was obsessed with music, R-rated films and boys. 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) who at some point gave her a purse. ![]() ( PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus)Īfter 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. ( PROSE: Divided Loyalties) She once went to France as an exchange student. ( 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. They had also dated at some point after this incident and despite breaking up, Tegan still remained fond of Mike. ( AUDIO: Warzone) When she was fifteen, she broke her toe during track and gym, so Mike carried her books home for her. ( 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. ( PROSE: The Eight Doctors)Īt 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. ( AUDIO: Hexagora) When she was twelve, she played with Aboriginal children in the Outback at her uncle's farm. ( 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. 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. ( 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. Tegan learnt how to dance the Charleston for a school play. ( 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. 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. ![]() ( PROSE: Logopolis) One particular flight had not gone well due to turbulence. She was a natural driver but preferred aeroplanes, being allowed to fly her father's Cessna when she was older. ( 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. ( AUDIO: Psychodrome) She tried ice cream when she was three and did not like it. Tegan lived on a cattle farm when she was young, describing it as being as far away from civilisation as it could be. ( TV: Arc of Infinity) She also had other cousins who worked in blast-mining in Australia. ( PROSE: Divided Loyalties) Tegan called Colin her favourite cousin. 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: 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. ( PROSE: Qualia) She had several brothers. Tegan Melissa Jovanka ( PROSE: Divided Loyalties) was born in Brisbane on 22 September, 1960 ( AUDIO: The Gathering) to Bill ( PROSE: Divided Loyalties) and Joy.
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