Tenko
Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.
- Creator
- Lavinia Warner
- Status
- Ended
- First air date
- 22/10/1981
- Original language
- English
Main cast
Seasons and episodes
Season 0
1 episodes · 1985
Series 1
10 episodes · 1981The first season, set in 1941-42, charts the drama from the women being captured and sent to live in squalor and deprivation in a Japanese POW camp.
Series 2
10 episodes · 1982Season 2, set in 1942-43, began with the women on a long march to a new camp, where things seem much more luxurious at first, but they find they have troubles settling into the str
Series 3
10 episodes · 1984The final season took up two years after the previous one, as the war drew to a close and the women were returned to their normal lives. Well, as normal as they could be after thei
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