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.
3 seasons · 30 episodes
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.
S3 E1Go Down Fighting
Oct 7, 1984
1 JULY 1945: Two years have passed and the women are in another camp, this one in the site of a former prison. Times have been hard and many have died - including Blanche, Verna, Daisy and even little Suzy. New faces include brassy, tough M
S3 E2Wealth of Stores
Oct 14, 1984
20 AUGUST 1945: Marion stops Maggie and her mob from attacking Sato and stops Kate taking down the Japanese flag. She explains to the women how things will work now. Yamauchi reveals the wealth of stores hidden away from the women, to their
S3 E3Acclimatization
Oct 21, 1984
The women are met in Singapore by RAPWI officer Phyllis Bristow, who take their details, She wants to transfer Kate and Mrs Van Meyer to other groups, but they refuse and are left where they are. Alice learns that her father is still alive.
S3 E4Marion is Wanted
Oct 28, 1984
Still looking for Clifford, Marion is asked to give evidence against Yamauchi. Joss meets up with Stephen Wentworth, an old friend of Monica's (the women she spent most of the series looking for), who has opened a center to help the natives
S3 E5Scars
Nov 5, 1984
Marion is reunited with Clifford, who is at the hotel waiting for her, and tells her Ben is okay. Clifford reveals he is in charge of leading the hunt for war criminals, and intends to start by tracking down and hanging Yamauchi. Bea, still
S3 E6Diary
Nov 12, 1984
Sister Ulrica catches up with the other women and counsels Dorothy, who finds out her mother is dead and leaves to go back to England. Clifford and Marion have drifted apart badly: he doesn't want to hear about the camps, which is all she w
Stephanie Cole
Beatrice Mason
Ann Bell
Marion Jefferson
Claire Oberman
Kate Norris
Elizabeth Chambers
Mrs. Domenica Van Meyer
Emily Bolton
Christina Campbell
Veronica Roberts
Dorothy Bennett
Patricia Lawrence
Sister Ulrica
Jean Anderson
Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
Annet Peters
Female Prisoner of War
Stephanie Beacham
Rose Millar
Burt Kwouk
Major Yamauchi
Takashi Kawahara
Shinya
