
About the TV Show

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Tenko
First Air Date: October 22, 1981
First Aired on | : | 1981 |
Status | : | Ended |
Created By | : | Lavinia Warner |
Networks | : | BBC One |
Genres | : | Drama,War & Politics |
Seasons/Episodes | : | 30 episodes in 3 Seasons |
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.