Trivia - Dr Who Companions with prior roles

[Tim Kelly]

Mary Tamm, who was the first Romana; she was in one episode of the medical sitcom Only When I Larf (sic) and was John Voight's stripper girlfriend in the movie The Odessa File.

[Fred588]

Mary Tamm, who was the first Romana; she was in one episode of the medical sitcom Only When I Larf (sic) and was John Voight's stripper girlfriend in the movie The Odessa File.

Interesting to know but the trivia item was for prior roles in Dr Who.

[Fred588]

This is probably not correct because it's reversed. But Jacqueline Hill, who played the original companion Barbara Wright, later appeared as a different character in the Tom Baker story Meglos. portraying Priestess Lexa, leader of the religiously fanatical Deons.

Yes it is reversed.