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.
First air date
22/10/1981
Votes
13
Popularity
9.4
Specials
Series 1
The first season, set in 1941-42, charts the drama from the women being captured and sent to live in squalor and depriva…
Series 2
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 f…
Series 3
The final season took up two years after the previous one, as the war drew to a close and the women were returned to the…
Original Soundtrack
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