Tenko - Season 3 - Eps 2: Wealth of Stores

Name: Eps 2: Wealth of Stores
Released: 1984-10-14
Rating: 4.0

1984-10-14 • ? min • ⭐ 8/10

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 horror. Kate, with Maggie in tow, goes AWOL for a few hours to see Tom at the men's camp but they are stopped en route and warned not to continue by a male POW, who tells them it is too dangerous just yet. Maggie and the POW have sex in a truck. But next day, Yamauchi arranges for the women to visit the men's camp. 19 SEPTEMBER 1945: A bunch of Australian soldiers finally arrive at the camp and are horrified by what they find. The women are told they will be leaving for Singapore next day. Alice is mistaken for a boy by the soldiers. Sato kills himself, watched by Dorothy and Joss. The next morning, Yamauchi bids Marion farewell and apologises for everything. Watched by Yamauchi, the women leave the camp for freedom.

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About Tenko

Title: Tenko

First Air Date: 1981-10-22

Last Air Date: 1984-12-10

Status: Ended

Rating: 8/10 (from 10 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 4

Total Episodes: 30

Network: BBC One

Genres: Drama, War & Politics

Production Companies: Unknown

Synopsis

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.