Princess Tenko is the stage name of ( born June 29, 1959 in Arai, Niigata ), a pop singer turned magician specialising in grand illusions.

Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic, the cartoon series based on her by Saban, is centered around Princess Tenko leading a team of warriors ( Bolt, Hawk, Steel and apprentice Ali ) called the Guardians who tried to amass the scattered and stolen magical Starfire Gems, each of which had a special power.

It is first seen when Ueki was defending himself from Tenko.

Wish Me Luck is similar to Tenko and the 1970s BBC drama Secret Army, in that it deals with strong female characters coping under extreme conditions in wartime.

Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic is an American magical girl cartoon show produced by Saban that centered around the fictional adventures of Japanese real-life magician Princess Tenko, Mariko Itakura.

The story of Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic begins when a female magician, already an experienced performer, is chosen by an old man named Tenko to come to his school for magicians and learn real magic.

Two of the most senior students, the twins Jana and Jason, become jealous of the newcomer when she is chosen to become the new Tenko just before the original dies.

In the scuffle, the Tenko Box is damaged, and the remaining Starfire gems are scattered all over the world and some through time.

It is now up to Tenko and the " Guardians of the Magic ," as they come to be called, to retrieve all of the Starfire gems before Jana and Jason get them and use them for evil.

* Princess Tenko: The Master Guardian, she is the leader of the show's heroes.

He and Tenko have shown signs of being attracted to each other, but his loyalty to his sister is greater and so he follows her orders.

* Diamond Gem-can enlarge a creature it is used on ( Holder: Princess Tenko )

Kwouk also appeared as the honourable but misguided Major Yamauchi in the 1980s World War II television drama Tenko.

One of her most recognised and popular roles was of Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s television series Tenko, a drama which chronicled the lives of British women in Singapore after the Japanese invasion and their consequent confinement in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.

Jean contrived to keep the Club open and solvent for the next five years, before going on to a very distinguished career both on stage and on television in series such as ' Tenko ' and ' The Brothers '.

Following Space: 1999, Merton appeared in many popular television series including Grange Hill, Return of the Saint ( 1979 ), Bergerac ( 1983 ), Angels ( 1983 ), Tenko ( 1984 ), Dempsey & Makepeace ( 1985 ), Lovejoy ( 1986 ), Crime Traveller ( 1997 ), Doctors ( 2001 ), Dinotopia ( 2002 ), Casualty ( 1986 – 2002 ), EastEnders ( 1998 – 2003 ), The Bill ( 1999 – 2005 ), Judge John Deed ( 2006 ), Coronation Street ( 2008 ) and Wire in the Blood ( 2008 ).

A total of thirty episodes were produced between 1981 and 1984, followed by a one-off special ( which was twice the length of the other episodes ), Tenko Reunion, in 1985.

Tenko dramatises the experiences of European women interned by the Japanese militia following the invasion of Singapore in 1942.

Tenko was created by Lavinia Warner after she had conducted research into the internment of nursing corps officer Margot Turner ( 1910 – 1993 ) for an edition of This Is Your Life and was convinced of the dramatic potential of the stories of women prisoners of the Japanese.

The older Tenko passed his mantle to her before he died at the age of 45 by heart disease.

The series was made by London Weekend Television for the ITV network between 1987 and 1989 and created by Lavinia Warner and Jill Hyem, who had previously produced and written the BBC women prisoner of war series Tenko.

After he was injured by Jana and Jason he was placed in the Tenko Box and disappeared, but occasionally his spirit appears to Princess Tenko to give her advice.

* Pearl Gem-Has the power of flight, used by Tenko to turn her horse into a pegasus.

* The hotel featured in episodes of the BBC / ABC co-production Tenko.

Assigned to produce Star Cops was Evgeny Gridneff, who had previously worked for the BBC on Tenko, Blott on the Landscape and Hold the Back Page.

" Tenko: Osuwa Taiko.

* Tenko: Oguchi Daihachi No Nihon Taikoron Oguchi Daihachi ’ s Theory of Japanese Drums.

In 1985, a two-hour special, Tenko Reunion, was produced.

Tenko Reunion featured Marion Jefferson ( Ann Bell ) now divorced from Clifford ; Dr Beatrice Mason ( Stephanie Cole ) and Christina Campbell ( Emily Bolton ) now working in a community centre in Singapore, Sister Ulrica ( Patricia Lawrence ) doing missionary work in Asia, Domenica Forster-Brown ( Elizabeth Chambers ), the now happily re-married Mrs Van Meyer, nurse and now doctor-in-training Kate Norris ( Clare Oberman ), Alice Courtenay ( Cindy Shelley ) and working class girls Dorothy Bennett ( Veronica Roberts ) and Maggie Carter ( Elizabeth Mickery ), now a successful businesswoman and married mother of two, respectively.

The major twist of the Tenko Reunion was the revelation that it was one of the women who had betrayed them to the communist rebels, the spy being revealed as Christina Campbell, whose difficulty adjusting after life in the camps had been developed in detail in the third series.

The complete series of Tenko was re-released on DVD during 2011 through Acorn Media UK.

Though he had several apprentices, his sponsors chose Mariko as the 2nd Tenko.

At the end of each episode, the real Princess Tenko would appear on stage and perform an illusion or teach a magic trick.

She loves all animals, taking an immediate liking to Tenko ( whom she calls " Tenki "), but her weakness for cute things makes her vulnerable.

In this new form, he puts Ueki in his awakening organ ( It turns out that he also absorbed Celestial Beasts similar to Tenko ), and advances Ueki to his 9 and 10 star treasures.

Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

It is interesting to note that the present level of military electronics procurement is greater than the industry's total sales to all markets in 1950-1953, which were good years for our industry with television enjoying its initial period of rapid consumer acceptance.

`` Last year your Tennessee Williams told our Dilys Powell, in a television program, that it is the task of the playwright to throw light into the dark corners of the human heart.

We know that the number of radio and television impulses, sound waves, ultra-violet rays, etc., that may occupy the very same space, each solitary upon its own frequency, is infinite.

For A good many seasons I've been looking at the naughty stuff on television, so the other night I thought I ought to see how immorality is doing on the other side of the fence in movies.

Radio is easily outdistancing television in its strides to reach the minority listener.

It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media ; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards ( for music ), Emmy Awards ( for television ), and Tony Awards ( for theatre ) are modeled after the Academy.

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

The Rutherford films are frequently repeated on television in Germany, and in that country Miss Marple is generally identified with Rutherford's quirky portrayal.

Another example is in the television show Gladiators, in which two series were based on contests between teams representing Australia and England.

It attracts competitors from all of the main show jumping nations and is carried live on Irish national television.

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

This is the primary recording format used in many professional audio workstations in the television and film industry.

Audio broadcasting ( be it for television or audio broadcasting ) is perhaps the biggest market segment ( and user area ) for audio processing products — globally.

Analog ( or analogue ) television is the analog transmission that involves the broadcasting of encoded analog audio and analog video signal: one in which the information to be transmitted, the brightness and colors of the points in the image and the sound waves of the audio signal are represented by continuous variations of some aspect of the signal ; its amplitude, frequency or phase.

Each frame of a television image is composed of lines drawn on the screen.

In many countries, over-the-air broadcast television of analog audio and analog video signals is being discontinued, to allow the re-use of the television broadcast radio spectrum for other services such as datacasting and subchannels.

That concept is true for all analog television standards.

A color television system is identical except that an additional signal known as chrominance controls the color of the spot.

When analog television was developed, no affordable technology for storing any video signals existed ; the luminance signal has to be generated and transmitted at the same time at which it is displayed on the CRT.