Tenko (1981)
Release Date
22 Oct, 1981
Runtime
00:55: (HH:MM)
Total Episode/Season
30/3
Synopsis
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.
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16 Dec, 1985
Season 1
22 Oct, 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.
Season 2
21 Oct, 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.
Season 3
07 Oct, 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.
Stephanie Cole
Jean Anderson
Ann Bell
Emily Bolton
Claire Oberman
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