TV Series
Tenko
8.31981 · 3 seasons60 min / episode
DramaWar & Politics
Overview
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.
Status
Status
Ended
Latest episode aired Dec 10, 1984
Season 3
~10 episodes
Total episodes
Videos
Seasons
Series 1
10 episodesAired 1981
The 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 episodesAired 1982
Season 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 strange regime of their new home.
Series 3
10 episodesAired 1984
The 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 their imprisonment.
Cast
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