Tenko

tv show

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30 total episodes

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3 seasons

First Aired October 22, 1981

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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.

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Season 1

10 episodes

Air Date

October 22, 1981

Overview

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.

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