Janet Fielding
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Biography: Janet Claire Mahoney (born 9 September 1953), known professionally as Janet Fielding, is an Australian actress best known for her role as Tegan Jovanka in the British television series Doctor Who. She was a regular cast member from 1981 to 1984, alongside both Tom Baker and Peter Davison, and reprised the role some times in subsequent decades, both on Doctor Who and its spin-off audiodramas from Big Finish Productions.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Birthday: September 09, 1953
Age: 71 years old
Gender: Female
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Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
Overview: Zoe Ball hosts a live celebration in which the next actor to land Doctor Who's lead role is revealed, in the company of former cast members and celebrity fans.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-04
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Myth Makers 5: Janet Fielding
Overview: Janet Fielding played the Australian air stewardess Tegan in Doctor Who from 1980 to 1983. She started with Tom Baker and then did every Peter Davison story except his last two! Janet is a founder of Women in Film and Television UK which she ran for the first four years. When legendary London agent Marina Martin was ready to retire she recruited Janet to take over her eponymous agency. As an agent, Janet represented Paul McGann when he was offered the part of The Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who TV pilot. In 2008, she moved to Ramsgate and started Project MotorHouse, which is a charity and social enterprise that works with local youths and specializes in photographic projects. This unique Myth Makers combines two interviews recorded with Janet in 1985 and 2020.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Overview: With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. But do they manage it?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-23
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Doctor Who: The Passenger
Overview: Tegan Jovanka's adventures continue... but not in the way she expected!
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-13
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Doctor Who: Jovanka Airlines
Overview: Jovanka Airlines was a short webcast made to coincide with the release of Doctor Who: The Collection — Season 19 Blu-ray boxset and released as part of The Season 19 Safety Video with Tegan Jovanka. As the name suggests, Tegan examined the special features of the release as if they were safety procedures on an aeroplane.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-21
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The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
Overview: 6. Panopticon VII - 1986 was the 10th Anniversary of the DWAS and for the first time professional cameras were there to record the event. This special production includes highlights from the convention, home movies from early Panopticons (featuring Tom Baker and Patrick Troughton) and the reminiscences from organisers, actors and production staff about the early days of fandom. However, you’ll see lots of other personalities from other eras as we stop along the way to look at particular aspects of the programme.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-01
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The Doctors: The Peter Davison Years
Overview: This is the definitive set of interviews with the team who brought the Peter Davison era of Doctor Who to life! This documentary includes the best in-depth interviews with Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Mark Strickson (Turlough) and Anthony Ainley (The Third Master) ever undertaken! Plus two more special productions featuring Peter Davison and his assistants at 1980s DOCTOR WHO conventions!
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-11
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Tales of Television Centre
Overview: Various actors, presenters, directors and other staff who have worked at the iconic BBC Television Centre at Shepherd's Bush in London reminisce about their time there.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-17
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Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
Overview: Arriving on the barren world of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Peri find themselves embroiled in a long running, literal underground war. At the heart of the conflict is a substance called Spectrox - both valuable and deadly! The Doctor & Peri wind up being poisoned by the material, which is killing them slowly and painfully unless they can find a cure. As the conflict heats up and the situation gets more desperate, the Doctor realises time is running out - both for Peri and himself...
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-16
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Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Overview: Captured in a time corridor, the Doctor and his companions are forced to land on 20th century Earth, diverted by the Doctor's oldest enemy - the Daleks. It is here the true purpose of the time corridor becomes apparent: after ninety years of imprisonment, Davros, the ruthless creator of the Daleks, is to be liberated to assist in the resurrection of his army. Not even the Daleks foresee the poisonous threat of their creator. Indeed, who would suspect Davros of wanting to destroy his own Daleks - and why? Only the Doctor knows the truth. Will he descend to Davros' level of evil to stop him?
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-15
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Doctor Who: Castrovalva
Overview: The Doctor needs somewhere peaceful to recover from his traumatic regeneration. But the sanctuary of Castrovalva is not all it seems, as the Master will stop at nothing to gain his revenge over the Doctor...
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-12
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Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
Overview: The Doctor and his companions arrive on a spaceship headed for Earth, populated by natives of Earth from various different eras and commanded by the leaders of the Urbankan race. What are the Urbankans' intentions when they reach Earth?
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-26
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Doctor Who: Kinda
Overview: The TARDIS lands on the idyllic jungle world of Deva Loka, which is being surveyed for possible Earth colonisation. Deva Loka is already home to a race of apparent savages, however: a mysterious people with strange powers which have mentally unbalanced the members of the expedition. To make matters worse, an ancient enemy of the natives known as the Mara is intent upon revenge, and latches onto Tegan's mind as its bridgehead to victory.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-09
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Doctor Who: The Visitation
Overview: In 17th century England, the Doctor and itinerant thespian Richard Mace uncover a plot by a crew of criminal Terileptils to wipe out humanity.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-23
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Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Overview: The TARDIS arrives in 1925 England where the Doctor ends up playing in a local cricket match due to a case of mistaken identity. The travellers accept an invitation to a masked fancy dress ball, but events take on a more sinister tone as murders are perpetrated at the country home of their host, Lord Charles Cranleigh.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-02
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Doctor Who: Time-Flight
Overview: While investigating a vanishing Concorde at Heathrow Airport, the Doctor and his companions are thrown millions of years back in time, when a mysterious alien called Kalid is trying to control the ancient powers of the Xeraphin.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-30
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Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
Overview: Omega, an ancient Time Lord made of pure anti-matter, once defeated by the Doctor, is plotting to cross over into this dimension by bonding with the Doctor. Meanwhile, the disappearance of a man in Amsterdam piques the curiosity of his cousin, Tegan, who previously left the Doctor at Heathrow Airport and now finds herself at Omega's mercy. Fearing total destruction from the collision of matter and antimatter, the Time Lords recall the Doctor to Gallifrey to undertake the only viable solution: executing him!
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-12
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Doctor Who: Snakedance
Overview: Tegan falls once more under the influence of the Mara and directs the TARDIS to the planet Manussa. There, the Federator's son Lon and his mother Tanha are preparing for a ceremony to celebrate the banishment of the Mara five hundred years earlier. The Mara takes control of Lon and uses him and Tegan to obtain from Ambril, the Director of Historical Research, the 'Great Crystal' - the large blue stone that originally brought it into being by focusing energy from the minds of the planet's one-time inhabitants. The Mara now plans to use the crystal during the ceremony to bring about its return to corporeal existence.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-26
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Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
Overview: A warp ellipse draws the TARDIS off course. The Fifth Doctor's companions are separated from him not in space, but in time, and he has to deal with a treacherous schoolboy named Turlough. But why does the Doctor's old friend, the Brigadier, not remember him at all?
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-09
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Doctor Who: Terminus
Overview: The TARDIS attaches itself to a space liner after Turlough, still under the Black Guardian's influence, damages its controls. The Doctor and Nyssa meet two space pirates, Kari and Olvir, who have come on board the liner in search of plunder, while Tegan and Turlough get lost in the infrastructure. The liner docks with what appears to be a hulk floating in space. This is Terminus, which claims to offer a cure for Lazar's disease. It is crewed by armoured slave workers, the Vanir. The cure is administered by a huge, dog-like creature known as the Garm. Nyssa, who has contracted the disease from sufferers transported aboard the liner, discovers that the cure - involving exposure to radiation - does actually work.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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Doctor Who: Enlightenment
Overview: An Edwardian yacht in deep space races around the planets. There is a double agent in the TARDIS crew. The White Guardian warns the Fifth Doctor of great danger. Turlough must finally choose sides and at the end of the race lies the prize of Enlightenment.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-09
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Doctor Who: The King's Demons
Overview: The Doctor and his companions arrive at a medieval joust and are surprised to be greeted warmly by King John, who calls them his demons. But when a young nobleman returns, having just left King John in London, the Doctor realises that this king must be an impostor! Then the Master makes an appearance and the Doctor's worst fears are confirmed...
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-16
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Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
Overview: The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive on Sea Base 4, a nuclear warhead station under the sea that has some very nasty neighbours.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-13
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Doctor Who: The Awakening
Overview: The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive in Little Hodcombe, where the townspeople's re-enactments of English Civil War battles are causing a dormant entity, the Malus, to re-awaken.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-20
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Doctor Who: Frontios
Overview: "Frontios buries its own dead", or so the saying goes. The Doctor, Turlough and Tegan are forced into landing on the remote planet of Frontios, a human colony where deaths go unaccounted for. What lies beneath the surface, dragging its victims down?
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-03
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Doctor Who: Logopolis
Overview: After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the planet Logopolis. There, the Doctor discovers that the Master's interference with the Logopolitans' advanced mathematics has unleashed a wave of entropy which threatens to consume the entire universe.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-21
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Doctor Who: Earthshock
Overview: The Doctor and his companions must prevent the Cybermen from bombing the Earth in the 26th century. It is a battle not everyone will survive...
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-16
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Peter Davison in Conversation
Overview: A newly-shot one-hour interview ‘Peter Davison In Conversation with Matthew Sweet
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-04
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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Overview: Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle the Master, Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti in order to reach the Dark Tower and discover the Tomb of Rassilon.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-25
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Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Overview: Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary, including the production and transmission of 'The Five Doctors', the media interest and the BBC Enterprises' event at Longleat House. Featuring actors Peter Davison, Elisabeth Sladen, Nicholas Courtney, Mark Strickson, Janet Fielding, Carole Ann Ford, John Leeson, Richard Franklin and Caroline John, writer Terrance Dicks, director Peter Moffatt, visual effects designer Mike Kelt, new series writers Paul Cornell and Gareth Roberts, prominent fans Andrew Beech, Ian Levine, Richard Molesworth and James Goss. Presented by Colin Baker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-03
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Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the Universe
Overview: Blue Peter presenter Yvette Fielding takes Peter Davison, Mark Strickson and Janet Fielding on a trip through BBC Television Centre, meeting up with old friends and colleagues as they reminisce on their time spent working in the iconic building. With film traffic supervisor Neville Withers, assistant floor manager Sue Hedden, costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux, production assistant Jane Ashford, make-up artists Joan Stribling and Carolyn Perry, former BBC producer and writer Richard Marson, senior camera supervisor Alec Wheal, exhibitions assistant Bob Richardson and videotape engineer Simon Anthony.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-26
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Myth Runner
Overview: A spoof of Blade Runner, built around bloopers and outtakes from the Myth Makers series of videos, featuring interviews with actors from the Doctor Who TV series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
Overview: Peter Davison is on a new journey to discover everything he can about the Doctor's Companion. What exactly is a companion's role, how do you actually become a companion, what do they have in common and how have the companions changed over the years?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-13
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Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner
Overview: This well researched and insightful documentary about producer John Nathan-Turner looks at his career with a special emphasis on his time at Doctor Who which he worked on throughout the 1980s until the show went on hiatus following the Season 26 story ‘Survival’. Featuring rare footage and commentary from those who knew him and worked with him, Showman is a fascinating look at the life of a troubled showman with lots of stories to tell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-23
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The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited
Overview: Brave Doctor Who cast members tackle their original recipes from the official 1985 cookbook.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-07
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Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Overview: Amy tries to flirt with The Doctor but he tries to ignore her advances.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-09
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A Fix with Sontarans
Overview: While operating the controls on his TARDIS console, The Doctor accidentally transports his former companion Tegan Jovanka on board. Less than happy about her situation, she reluctantly agrees to help when the Doctor reveals that two Sontarans are on board with a powerful vitrox bomb with which they intend to blow up the ship.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-23
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The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers
Overview: In the far future, the remaining population of an oxygen-depleted planet Earth lies in enforced stasis in The Field of Dreams. Looking for ideas to help him re-connect to his captive audience, Zed, a young scenariosmith, turns to the world of Doctor Who for inspiration...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-05
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The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
Overview: Continuing his search for inspiration, Zed resumes his studies of twentieth-century television's Doctor Who. What he finds will have a profound effect...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-05
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Come in Number Five
Overview: A special retrospective of Peter Davison's tenure as the Fifth Doctor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-28
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The Ties That Bind Us
Overview: A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-03
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Earthshocked
Overview: Featuring cast and crew interviews, recreated sets, and newly shot 16mm film inserts starring the Cybermen.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-26
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Hanging by a Thread: The Making of Logopolis
Overview: Hanging by a Thread: The Making of Logopolis is a documentary about the production of the Doctor Who story, Logopolis, which aired in 1981. It is part of the Season 18 Blu-ray collection of Doctor Who. The documentary explores the challenges and complexities faced during the filming of the story, including the transition from Tom Baker to Peter Davison
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-18
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Peter Grimwade: Directing with attitude...
Overview: A look at the career of Peter Grimwade: writer, director, and the name behind the eponymous robot phobia syndrome.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-07
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Doctor Who: The Eight Doctors
Overview: Ian Levine's AI construction of an unproduced serial for Doctor Who.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-17
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