Nyssa (Sarah Sutton)
Nyssa's first apearence on the show was in The Keeper of Traken, where she helped the Doctor and Adric prevent the Master from obtaining absolute power (again). She did not leave with the Doctor at the end of the episode, however. She joined him durring the next episode, Legopolis, hoping that he would help her locate her missing father. Unfortunatly, her father had been killed and his body possesed by the Master. Her planet was distroyed durring the course of the show, so she decided (understandably) to say with the Doctor. She left at the end of Terminus to help stop a horrible plauge.
Nyssa was one of the most tragic characters on the show. Both her mother, her step-mother, her father, and her planet were distroyed. She left the Doctor to stay on a filthy, disease ridden space-ship where her life would be hard and miserable until she most probably died of the very disease she was trying to cure.
Turlough (Mark Strickson)
Turlough was a political prisoner of his planet, imprisioned in the worst imaginable place in the entire universe--an public school on Earth. He made a deal with The Black Guardian, who had a grudge against the Doctor, to kill the Time Lord in exchange for his freedom. He agreed--and spent the next four or five episodes deeply regreting the bargin. He couldn't make himself kill the Doctor and finally managed to escape from his contract at the end of Enlightenment.
Turlough was, when he first joined the Doctor, quite frankly, a miserable worm of a human being. He was a lying, back-stabbing, greedy murderer-wannabe. He slowly reveals his better side as the show continues by being unable to kill the Doctor and showing the occasional flash of compassion for his fellow travelers. He was still greedy and willing to sacrafice others to save himself, but by the time he left the Doctor to return to his own planet, at the end of Planet of Fire, he was a realitivly well-rounded humanbeing, who thought of others as equal to himself. A remarkable transformation....
Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding)
Tegan was a stuborn, strong-willed, air-hostess wannabe. She was on her way to her first day of work on an airplane when her her car tire went flat on the highway. She tried to call for help on a Police Box telephone and the rest was history. Tegan spent a great deal of her time with the Doctor trying to get back home--and was very vocal in her disapointment each time the Doctor failed to take her there--but eventally decided to travel on the ship for a while, instead. She remained stuborn and vocal for her entire time with the Doctor, tending to have a fit or panic each time something went wrong. She was very reliable in a pinch, however, and the Doctor was very upset when she decided to leave at the end of Resurrection of the Daleks.
Interesting fact...The name for this character was originally going to be either Tegan or Jovanka. The two names were written down on a slip of paper. Someone ran across the paper and said, "Hey, that's a nice name," so it was decided that the character would be named Tegan Jovanka.
Kamelion (Voice by Gerald Flood)
Kamelion was an android with the ability to change form into anything his owner wished. The Doctor stole him from the Master in The Kings Demons to prevent the Master from causing any mishchive with the android. Kamelion was very expensive to run and therefore was only included in two episodes. He was distroyed at the end of The Planet of Fire.
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