
Tenko
1981 • 30 ep
8.3
12
Creator:
Lavinia Warner
Writers:
Anne Valery
•Jill Hyem
•Paul Wheeler
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.
DramaWar & Politics
Cast

Stephanie Cole
Beatrice Mason
N/A
Ann Bell
Marion Jefferson

Claire Oberman
Kate Norris
N/A
Elizabeth Chambers
Mrs. Domenica Van Meyer

Emily Bolton
Christina Campbell

Veronica Roberts
Dorothy Bennett
N/A
Patricia Lawrence
Sister Ulrica

Jean Anderson
Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
N/A
Annet Peters
Female Prisoner of War

Stephanie Beacham
Rose Millar

Burt Kwouk
Major Yamauchi

Takashi Kawahara
Shinya





