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Tegan Jovanka's father was according to one account, called William Jovanka, also known as Bill. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)"]) However according to another account his name was Brian Graham. (PROSE: Little Did She Know [+]Loading...["Little Did She Know (short story)"])
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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 farm (PROSE: Castrovalva [+]Loading...["Castrovalva (novelisation)"]) or cattle station (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 let Tegan drive a tractor around his farm when she was ten (PROSE: Logopolis [+]Loading...["Logopolis (novelisation)"]) and later taught her to fly in his Cessna, (PROSE: Castrovalva [+]Loading...["Castrovalva (novelisation)"]) an experience which became one of her fondest memories. (AUDIO: The Cradle of the Snake [+]Loading...["The Cradle of the Snake (audio story)"]) They experienced turbulence on one of these flights (PROSE: Time-Flight [+]Loading...["Time-Flight (novelisation)"]) and Bill maintained that she was too impetuous to fly solo. (PROSE: Logopolis [+]Loading...["Logopolis (novelisation)"]) He always said that "if" was the most powerful word in the English language. (TV: Castrovalva [+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"])
When Tegan was a teenager, Bill had an affair with a twenty-year-old typist, leading Joy and Tegan to move away. Tegan ran away to Sydney after she was expelled from boarding school and Bill found her squatting in King's Cross, after which he sent her to London to live with Vanessa. (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)"])
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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)"])
When Kamelion tapped into Tegan's memories, he was overwhelmed by childhood memories of Tegan's parents and aunt Vanessa. (PROSE: Qualia [+]Loading...["Qualia (short story)"])