Tegan Jovanka's father
William Jovanka, also known as Bill, was the father of Tegan Jovanka.
Biography
Bill owned a cattle (AUDIO: Psychodrome [+]Loading...["Psychodrome (audio story)"]) or sheep farm in Australia, near Toowoomba. (AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane [+]Loading...["The Butcher of Brisbane (audio story)"]) Tegan described it as being "about as far away from civilisation as you can get". (AUDIO: Psychodrome [+]Loading...["Psychodrome (audio story)"]) He also owned a company that supplied animal feed. (AUDIO: The Gathering [+]Loading...["The Gathering (audio 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)"])
Bill was married to Joy, Tegan's mother. (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, 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)"])
