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‘I W As Terrified Of The Daleks’

DOCTOR WHO turnsturns 60!

When Brisbaneborn actress Janet Fielding successfully auditioned to become Doctor Who’s new companion in 1980, she never imagined she’d still be flying in the Tardis all these years later!

Now 70, Janet played the very feisty Tegan Jovanka, and tells us, “The companions never really did more than three years.”

Thus Janet went into the job thinking she might only last 12 months if her character didn’t “work” or connectrabid fan base. However, the world immediately fell in love

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