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An Australian Broadcasting Corporation/British Broadcasting Corporation co-production

Created by: Lavinia Warner
Producers: Vere Lorrimer and Ken Riddington
Writers: Paul Wheeler, Jill Hyem, Anne Valery
Directors: David Askey, Michael Owen Morris, Pennant Roberts, Jeremy Summers, David Tucker

Aired: 1981–1982

"In the first series, a group of English women in 1941 Singapore are shipwrecked while they try to escape the Japanese invasion, and are captured and put in a prison camp. They and their Dutch companions must all make drastic adjustments to and discoveries about their lives. In the second series, the group is moved to a new camp with a completely new pecking order and a particularly vicious camp leader. At the beginning of the third series, the prisoners are liberated and must re-adjust themselves to live in Singapore, in the aftermath of the war." - Kathy Li

Tenko Reunion

An Australian Broadcasting Corporation/British Broadcasting Corporation co-production

Producer: Ken Riddington
Writers: Jill Hyem, Anne Valery, Lavinia Warner
Director: Michael Owen Morris

Aired: 1985 (110 minute telemovie)

It's 1950, and the British, Australian, and Dutch women who were imprisoned together in Japanese camps during WWII remember their promise to have a ten-year reunion in Singapore. Everybody's lives have moved on and changed, and each member of the group must reconcile herself to the changes that being a prisoner has made upon her life. Plans to stay in the country at Dominica's plantation, however, are disrupted when Communist bandits hold them at gunpoint and suddenly everybody's back in familiar territory, and wondering who the traitor among them is… - Kathy Li