Tenko

(1981)

Drama

War & Politics

8.1/10

11 votes

60 min/ep

October 22, 1981

IMDb

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.

Network

BBC One

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Keywords

Season 1

10 EpisodesAir Date: October 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.

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Season 2

10 EpisodesAir Date: October 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.

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Season 3

10 EpisodesAir Date: October 7, 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.

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