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Creator
Lavinia WarnerTenko 1981
Drama/ War & Politics/
Type - Scripted
Status - Ended
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.
3 Seasons | 30 Episodes
Specials | 1985
Season 0 of Tenko premiered on Dec 16,1985
Season 1 | 1981
Season 1 of Tenko premiered on Oct 22,1981
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 | 1982
Season 2 of Tenko premiered on Oct 21,1982
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 | 1984
Season 3 of Tenko premiered on Oct 07,1984
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.
