Introduction

Tenko is a television drama series co-produced by the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which was broadcast between 1981 and 1984.

The series dealt with the experiences of British, Australian and Dutch women who were captured after the Fall of Singapore in February 1942, after the Japanese invasion, and held in a fictional Japanese internment camp on a Japanese-occupied island between Singapore and Australia. Having been separated from their husbands, herded into makeshift holding camps and largely forgotten by the British War Office, the women had to learn to cope with appalling living conditions, malnutrition, disease, violence and death.

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Outline

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 centre to help the natives.

Tenko Series

You can find a full index and overview of Tenko here.

Production & Filming Details

• Release Date: 28 October 1984.
• Running time: 50 minutes.
• Rating: 12-15.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.

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