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. The first season, set in 1941-42, charts the drama from the women being captured and sent to live in squalor and depravation in a Japanese POW camp. 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. 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
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Seasons | |||
| Specials | December 1985 | 1 | |
| Season 1 | October 1981 | December 1981 | 10 |
| Season 2 | October 1982 | December 1982 | 10 |
| Season 3 | October 1984 | December 1984 | 10 |
| Unassigned Episodes | 0 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unassigned Episodes | 31 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 31 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Valery | 11 | 11/12/1981 - 11/19/1984 | |
| Jill Hyem | 10 | 11/05/1981 - 12/03/1984 | |
| Paul Wheeler | 2 | 10/22/1981 - 10/29/1981 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Summers | 8 | 12/02/1982 - 11/05/1984 | |
| David Tucker | 6 | 10/21/1982 - 11/25/1982 | |
| David Askey | 5 | 11/26/1981 - 12/24/1981 | |
| Michael Owen Morris | 5 | 11/12/1984 - 12/10/1984 | |
| Pennant Roberts | 5 | 10/22/1981 - 11/19/1981 |
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