Tenko

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. The first season, set in 1941-42, charts the drama from the women being captured and sent to live in squalor and depravation in a Japanese POW camp. 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. 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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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 75147
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired October 22, 1981
  • Recent December 26, 1985
  • Airs Thursday, at 9:25pm
  • Network BBC One
  • Average Runtime 55 minutes
  • Genres Drama History War
  • Original Country Great Britain
  • Original Language English
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Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials December 1985 1
Season 1 October 1981 December 1981 10
Season 2 October 1982 December 1982 10
Season 3 October 1984 December 1984 10
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Unassigned Episodes 31
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 31
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Anne Valery 11 11/12/1981 - 11/19/1984
Jill Hyem 10 11/05/1981 - 12/03/1984
Paul Wheeler 2 10/22/1981 - 10/29/1981
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Jeremy Summers 8 12/02/1982 - 11/05/1984
David Tucker 6 10/21/1982 - 11/25/1982
David Askey 5 11/26/1981 - 12/24/1981
Michael Owen Morris 5 11/12/1984 - 12/10/1984
Pennant Roberts 5 10/22/1981 - 11/19/1981

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