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Vislor Turlough is a fictional character played by Mark Strickson in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was a companion of the Fifth Doctor, being a regular in the programme from 1983 to 1984. Turlough appeared in 10 stories (33 episodes).

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Vislor Turlough
Doctor Who character
Turlough in a promotional photograph for Doctor Who.
First appearance	Mawdryn Undead (1983)
Last appearance	Planet of Fire (1984) The Caves of Androzani (1984) (cameo)
Portrayed by	Mark Strickson
In-universe information
Species	Trion
Affiliation	Fifth Doctor
Home	Trion
Home era	1983

Character history

When Turlough first appears in the serial Mawdryn Undead, he is a student of retired Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (himself a former companion of the Doctor) at the Brendon Public School, but it becomes apparent that he is not what he seems. He is contacted by the malevolent Black Guardian, who offers to take him home if he kills the Doctor. He also appears familiar with concepts of time travel and matter transmission. At the end of the serial, Turlough asks to accompany the Doctor. Despite Tegan and Nyssa's suspicions, the Doctor accepts Turlough as part of the TARDIS crew.

During the course of the next two serials, Terminus and Enlightenment (collectively known, together with Mawdryn Undead, as the Black Guardian Trilogy), Turlough finds himself unable to decide whether or not to carry out his assignment from the Black Guardian, but eventually rejects him in favour of loyalty to the Doctor. Although always slightly cowardly, with excellent instincts of self-preservation and a streak of ruthlessness, his relationship with the Doctor and Tegan improves with time (Nyssa having departed at the end of Terminus). He is one of the few companions capable of operating many of the TARDIS's systems, being able to run a diagnostic in The Five Doctors and program the TARDIS to retrieve the Doctor in Planet of Fire. Initially expressing a desire to return home, he continues travelling with the Doctor and Tegan until Tegan leaves at the end of Resurrection of the Daleks.

In the very next serial, Planet of Fire, it is revealed that Turlough is a junior ensign commander from the planet Trion. Following a civil war on his home planet, in which his mother was killed, Turlough's family were branded political prisoners. His father and younger brother Malkon were exiled to the planet Sarn whilst Turlough himself became a political exile to Earth watched over by an eccentric Trion agent disguised as a solicitor in Chancery Lane. Also revealed for the first time in this serial is Turlough's first name, Vislor. At the end of the serial, Turlough discovers that political prisoners are no longer mistreated on Trion and decides it is time to return home.

An image of Turlough appears during the Fifth Doctor's regeneration scene in The Caves of Androzani.

Strickson has humorously commented that, not knowing what to do with him, the writers of the television series would often have the villains capture or lock him up, leading to Turlough ending up in various "states of bondage".

List of appearances

Television

Season 20

20th anniversary special

• The Five Doctors

Season 21

Audio dramas

Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures

Doctor Who: The Lost Stories

Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures

Doctor Who: Special Releases

Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles

Doctor Who: Short Trips

Novels

Make Your Own Adventure

• Crisis in Space by Michael Holt

The Companions of Doctor Who

• Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma by Tony Attwood

Virgin Missing Adventures

• The Crystal Bucephalus by Craig Hinton
• Lords of the Storm by David A. McIntee

Past Doctor Adventures

• Deep Blue by Mark Morris
• Imperial Moon by Christopher Bulis
• The King of Terror by Keith Topping

Short stories

• "Birth of a Renegade" by Eric Saward (Radio Times Doctor Who 20th Anniversary Special)
• "Zeitgeist" by Craig Hinton (Decalog 3: Consequences)
• "Qualia" by Stephen Fewell (Short Trips: Companions)
• "Rome" by Marcus Flavin (Short Trips: The History of Christmas)
• "Comforts of Home" by Pete Kempshall (Short Trips: The History of Christmas)
• "One Wednesday Afternoon" by Alison Jacobs (Short Trips: A Day in the Life)
• "The Assassin's Story" by Andrew Collins (Short Trips: Repercussions)
• "Observation" by Ian Farrington (Short Trips: Life Science)
• "Lant Land" by Jonathan Morris (Short Trips: Life Science)
• "White Man's Burden" by John Binns (Short Trips: Past Tense)
• "Last Minute Shopping" by Neil Perryman (Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury)
• "The Misadventure of Mark Thorne" by Andy Frankham (Short Trips: Snapshots)
• "Piecemeal" by James Swallow (Short Trips: Snapshots)
• "Do You Believe in the Krampus?" by Xanna Eve Chown (Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas)
• "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" by Chris Thomas (Short Trips: Defining Patterns)
• "Gudok" by Mags L Halliday (Short Trips: Transmissions)
• "The Darkest Corner" by Adrian Middleton (Shelf Life)
• "Fair Exchange" by Mike Morgan (Shelf Life)

Comics

• "The Lunar Strangers" by Gareth Roberts and Martin Geraghty (Doctor Who Magazine 215–217)

External links

• Vislor Turlough on Tardis Data Core, an external wiki
• Vislor Turlough on the BBC's Doctor Who website

На других языках

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[fr] Vislor Turlough

Vislor Turlough est un personnage joué par Mark Strickson dans la série de science-fiction Doctor Who. Compagnon du 5° Docteur (Peter Davison), il est apparu régulièrement dans la série de 1983 à 1984. Créé par le producteur John Nathan-Turner et le scénariste Eric Saward, le personnage est un jeune garçon vivant en exil de sa planète, Trion. Il apparaît durant 10 sérials et 33 épisodes.

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