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).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 become 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. Vislor Turlough Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter