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What is Tenko about?

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.

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S3 · Episode 10 — Sayonara · 1984-12-10

The women all prepare to leave Singapore to go back home, agreeing to have a reunion at Raffles in 1950, exactly five years after they separate. Joss dies in hospital. Bea agrees to stay on in Singapore and help Stephen run the centre. Sister Ulrica goes to visit Yamauchi, who tells her he knows he will be hanged. Maggie agrees to go and stay with Dorothy in London. Everyone reminisces about absent friends: Joss, Rose, Blanche and all the others who died, and then say their goodbyes as they all go their separate ways. Marion realises the experience is finally over as she sails for home.

Genres: Drama, War & Politics
First aired: 1981-10-22
Rating: ★ 8.3 / 10

Top cast

Stephanie Cole Beatrice Mason
Jean Anderson Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
Ann Bell Marion Jefferson
Emily Bolton Christina Campbell
Claire Oberman Kate Norris
Elizabeth Chambers Mrs. Domenica Van Meyer

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