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Tenko

★ 8.1 (11 votes) | 1981 | 1h 0m
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.

Details
  • Status Ended
  • First Air Date October 22, 1981
  • Last Air Date December 10, 1984
  • Seasons 3
  • Episodes 30
  • Networks BBC One

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Specials
Specials

1 episodes • 1985

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Season 1
Season 1

10 episodes • 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
Season 2

10 episodes • 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
Season 3

10 episodes • 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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Tenko | Saturday afternoons from 1pm
Tenko | Saturday afternoons from 1pm

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