Tegan Jovanka's father
William Jovanka, also known as Bill, was the father of Tegan Jovanka.
Biography
According to one account, William Jovanka was the son of Mjovic and Sneshna Jovanka. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)"]) According to another, his father was Albert Jovanka. (AUDIO: The Kamelion Empire [+]Loading...["The Kamelion Empire (audio story)"]) He married Joy (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)"]) and had a daughter, Tegan, (TV: Logopolis [+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"]) and several sons. (PROSE: Qualia [+]Loading...["Qualia (short story)"]) He lived with his family on a sheep (PROSE: Castrovalva [+]Loading...["Castrovalva (novelisation)"]) or cattle farm (AUDIO: Psychodrome [+]Loading...["Psychodrome (audio story)"]) in Australia, (TV: Logopolis [+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"]) near Toowoomba (AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane [+]Loading...["The Butcher of Brisbane (audio story)"]) and Brisbane, (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)"]) although Tegan exaggerated its remoteness. (TV: Logopolis [+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"])
Bill always used to say that "if" was the most powerful word in the English language. (TV: Castrovalva [+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"]; AUDIO: Psychodrome [+]Loading...["Psychodrome (audio story)"]) He let Tegan drive a tractor around his sheep farm when she was ten (PROSE: Logopolis [+]Loading...["Logopolis (novelisation)"]) and later let her fly his Cessna. (PROSE: Castrovalva [+]Loading...["Castrovalva (novelisation)"])
When Kamelion tapped into Tegan's memories, he was overwhelmed by childhood memories of Tegan's parents and aunt Vanessa, as well as the Fifth Doctor's memories of Gallifrey. (PROSE: Qualia [+]Loading...["Qualia (short story)"]) Joy and Tegan moved away after Bill had an affair with a twenty-year-old typist and later tracked down Tegan and sent her to live with Vanessa after she ran away from her mother's. (PROSE: The King of Terror [+]Loading...["The King of Terror (novel)"])
According to one account, Bill had died by the time that Tegan rejoined the Doctor and Nyssa in the TARDIS. (PROSE: The Sands of Time [+]Loading...["The Sands of Time (novel)"]) According to another, he was still alive in 1987, when he was hospitalised by a snake bite and revived Tegan's fears of the Mara. (PROSE: Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat [+]Loading...["Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat (short story)"]) By 2006, Tegan had inherited his animal feed company. (AUDIO: The Gathering [+]Loading...["The Gathering (audio story)"])
References
In a dream given to Tegan by the Toymaker, Bill died of cancer in 1981 after having to give up running of his farm to his brother-in-law, Richard Frazer. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)"])
