Tara King

Tara King was a secret agent who worked for the Ministry and was friends with Jo Grant.

Biography

Jo and Tara went to school together. Tara was employed as an assistant to an eccentric freelance gentleman adventurer working for the Ministry, which Jo thought of as a job similar to her own, though she looked down on Tara's intelligence work as "swanning about in vintage cars, doing judo and wearing a selection of not-very-convincing wigs."

When Jo was in London, she stayed with Tara. At the time, Tara was getting lots of telephone calls because agents higher-up in the Ministry were getting into trouble. (PROSE: Verdigris ^[+]Paul Magrs, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

At some point she, along with John Steed, may have had lunch with one or more of the TV Terrors while they were hunting for autographs. (GAME: TV Terrors Autograph Hunt ^[+]TV Comic games (Polystyle Publications, Ltd., 1970).)

Behind the scenes

• Tara King is a character from The Avengers, a series devised by Sydney Newman but who had left for the BBC (where he was involved in the creation of Doctor Who years before the character joined the series. Tara, played by Canadian actress Linda Thorson, succeeded Emma Peel, played by Diana Rigg.

v • e The Avengers (in-universe) Members of the Ministry Cathy Gale • Emma Peel • Georgie Price Jones • "Jane Fonda" Iris • John Steed • Tara King Locations Little Storping Individuals associated with the series Cast Jennie Linden • Brian Blessed • Barry Letts • Joanna Lumley Crew Creator Sydney Newman Writers Terrance Dicks • Terry Nation Some categorisation may be based upon conjecture. Real world information should not enter into this. Additionally, a character's role in the DWU can differ from the real world - their placement here is for categorisation.