Tenko
BOFFOES Rating
7.2
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Synopsis & Plot Summary
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
View All (3)- Season FinaleSeries 3Oct 6, 198410 Episodes
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.
0.0 - Series 2Oct 20, 198210 Episodes
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.
0.0 - Series 1Oct 21, 198110 Episodes
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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Top Casts
View All- Stephanie BeachamRose Millar
- Stephanie ColeBeatrice Mason
- Jean AndersonLady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
- Ann BellMarion Jefferson
- Patricia LawrenceSister Ulrica
- Emily BoltonChristina Campbell
- Claire ObermanKate Norris
- Veronica RobertsDorothy Bennett
- Renée AshersonSylvia Ashburton
- Jeananne CrowleyNellie Keene
- Karin FoleyDebbie Bowen
- Joanna HoleSally Markham
- Louise JamesonBlanche Simmons
- Wendy WilliamsVicky Armstrong
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