Tenko
Tenko (1981-1984)
Seasons: 3,
episodes: 30
Episode runtime: 60 min
Average rating:
8.5/10
977
Status
Completed
Creators
Lavinia Warner
Scenario
Anne Valery
Composer
James Harpham
Actors
Stephanie Beacham
Rose Millar
Stephanie Cole
Beatrice Mason
Jean Anderson
Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
Ann Bell
Marion Jefferson
Patricia Lawrence
Sister Ulrica
Emily Bolton
Christina Campbell
Claire Oberman
Kate Norris
Veronica Roberts
Dorothy Bennett
Short description
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.
Seasons
| Season | Episodes | Release date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
Series 1 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.
|
10 | 1981-10-22 | — |
Series 2 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.
|
10 | 1982-10-21 | — |
Series 3 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.
|
10 | 1984-10-07 | — |
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