![]() ![]() Sarah Sutton: 'By the end, I wasn't wearing very much at all. Sarah Sutton, Doctors: Tom Baker and Peter Davison Hair: Ernesto Montenovo at Phamous Artists. Makeup: Victoria Bond at Mandy Coakley Represents using Chanel Le Weekend and A/W 2013. ![]() Janet wears rollneck, from a selection, by, tunic top, £295, by Pleats Please, from .uk. I'm not sure I really liked it that much. People would call out my name, or Tegan's name, as I walked down the street. ![]() With Peter Davison as the Doctor, we climbed from around 5m viewers to 11m or 12m. I had a huge problem adjusting to the difference Doctor Who made in my life. I think all the girls wanted to add something extra to the role, but really we were just screamers: the whole point of us was to raise the stakes for the audience. You try climbing mountains in two-inch heels and a tight skirt: it isn't easy. The only outfit I quite liked was a little leather miniskirt and a very simple top. My first costume was an air stewardess uniform. The producers decided what kind of costume you wore, and Nathan-Turner's taste in clothing was pretty damn woeful. I thought, "Actually, I'm there for the young women to identify with."īut you couldn't fight being eye candy. That didn't sit easily with me, because I was, and still am, a feminist. John Nathan-Turner, the producer, made absolutely no bones about why the companions were there: you were told, in words of one syllable, that you were there for the dads. But I still found the role quite frustrating. Tegan was known as the "mouth on legs": she used to rip into the Doctor, so that was a change from the previous companions. Like me, Tegan was Australian: I was the first non-English companion. I wasn't prepared for how cult it was, and still is. I watched the show when I was a kid – my dad and brothers liked it – but it was more of a bloke thing. When I joined Doctor Who as Tegan Jovanka in the early 1980s, I was completely unprepared for what being a companion meant. Janet Fielding: 'The producer made absolutely no bones about why the companions were there: you were told, in words of one syllable, that you were there for the dads.' Photograph: Perou for the Guardian ![]()
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