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.

Original Title

Tenko

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Specials

16 Dec, 1985

Series 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.

Series 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.

Series 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.

Created By

Actors

Stephanie Cole

Jean Anderson

Ann Bell

Emily Bolton

Claire Oberman

Elizabeth Chambers

Crew