First air date: Oct 22, 1981
Episode duration: 01h 00m
Rating: (8) based on 10 votes
Status: Ended
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 30
Starring: Stephanie Cole, Jean Anderson, Ann Bell, Emily Bolton, Claire Oberman
Created by: Lavinia Warner
Genre: Drama, War & Politics

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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