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76
17
IMDb
8.5
/893/
Trakt
63
/19/
TMDb
80
/10/
Tomatoes

Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 50 min.
Season Runtime: 1550 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

Tenko (1981)

Specials (Dec. 16, 1985, midnight)

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.

poster

Tenko (1981)

Specials (Dec. 16, 1985, midnight)

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.

76
17
IMDb
8.5
/893/
Trakt
63
/19/
TMDb
80
/10/
Tomatoes
Lavinia Warner
Lavinia Warner
Director
Stephanie Beacham
Stephanie Beacham
Stephanie Cole
Stephanie Cole
Jean Anderson
Jean Anderson
Ann Bell
Ann Bell
Patricia Lawrence
Patricia Lawrence
Emily Bolton
Emily Bolton
Claire Oberman
Claire Oberman
Veronica Roberts
Veronica Roberts

Dec. 16, 1985, midnight 0.0

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.
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 50 min.
Season Runtime: 1550 min.
Released: Oct. 22, 1981
Last Air Date: Dec. 10, 1984, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

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