Overview - Tenko

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.

Seasons

• Name: Specials

  Episode: 1

  Date first aired: 1985-12-16

• Name: Season 1

  Episode: 10

  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.

  Date first aired: 1981-10-22

• Name: Season 2

  Episode: 10

  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.

  Date first aired: 1982-10-21

• Name: Season 3

  Episode: 10

  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.

  Date first aired: 1984-10-07