Tenko

Oct 22, 1981 (en) Drama, War & Politics [110] Min
  • First Air Date
    Oct 22, 1981
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    79.5%
  • Original title
    Tenko
  • Release
    Oct 22, 1981
  • en
    -

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer

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Casts

  1. Stephanie Cole

    Beatrice Mason

  2. Jean Anderson

    Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook

  3. Ann Bell

    Marion Jefferson

  4. Emily Bolton

    Christina Campbell

  5. Claire Oberman

    Kate Norris

  6. Elizabeth Chambers

    Mrs. Domenica Van Meyer

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 6 / Crews : 1

Specials ( 1985-12-16)

Tenko: The Reunion

Episode: 1

Season 1 ( 1981-10-22)

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.

Shattered Dreams

Episode: 1

All Aboard

Episode: 2

Internment

Episode: 3

What Would You Do For...

Episode: 4

Malaria

Episode: 5

Rape

Episode: 6

Unnatural Friendship

Episode: 7

Escape

Episode: 8

Five Hundred Hats

Episode: 9

Christmas

Episode: 10

Season 2 ( 1982-10-21)

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 March

Episode: 1

The Price

Episode: 2

Suicide

Episode: 3

Penance

Episode: 4

Breaking Vows

Episode: 5

New Arrivals

Episode: 6

Rendezvous

Episode: 7

...for Food

Episode: 8

Peacefully in the Night

Episode: 9

Comeuppance

Episode: 10

Season 3 ( 1984-10-07)

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.

Go Down Fighting

Episode: 1

Wealth of Stores

Episode: 2

Acclimatization

Episode: 3

Marion is Wanted

Episode: 4

Scars

Episode: 5

Diary

Episode: 6

Evidence

Episode: 7

The Visit

Episode: 8

On the Rocks

Episode: 9

Sayonara

Episode: 10
Oct 22, 1981 (en)
Drama, War & Politics
[110] Min
  • First Air Date Oct 22, 1981
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato 79.5%
Original Title Tenko
en

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer