Lavinia Warner
Director
Tenko (1981)
Specials
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.
Released Oct. 22, 1981
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Network: BBC One
S0E1 - Tenko: The Reunion
Five years after the end of the war, a chance encounter between Marion and Dorothy prompts Marion to try and organise a reunion at Raffles for them and their fellow ex-internees. In Singapore, they are reunited with the rest of their group - Bea, Kate, Christina, Maggie, Alice and the remarried Mrs Van Meyer, now Mrs Forster-Brown. They reminisce about the past and look forward to the future.
Dec. 16, 1985, midnight
Network: BBC One
Released: Oct. 22, 1981
Last Air Date: Dec. 10, 1984, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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