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.
Tenko (1981)
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Ann Bell
Marion Jefferson (31 episodes)
Claire Oberman
Kate Norris (31 episodes)
Stephanie Cole
Beatrice Mason (30 episodes)
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Emily Bolton
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Veronica Roberts
Dorothy Bennett (24 episodes)
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Jean Anderson
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