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Call the Midwife

  • TV-PG
  • 2012–
  • 15 seasons
  • Drama
  • 7.6

In 1950's London, they delivered hope for all.

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

Episodes

The medics and midwives of Nonnatus House are entering a bold and innovative era. They face unexpected challenges as the population shifts, rules change, and old diseases come back to haunt them. Meanwhile, their own experiences are fueled by love, loss, and doubt. And the very future of Nonnatus House comes under threat.

8 episodes
  1. 1Episode 1

    52 minJan 5, 2020

    Dr Turner and Nurse Crane must deal with an alarming outbreak of diphtheria. Fred finds an abandoned baby in a dustbin, and the team must help locate its mother.

  2. 2Episode 2

    52 minJan 12, 2020

    Sister Julienne cares for a pregnant prostitute, while Dr Turner puzzles over a mysterious string of symptoms.

  3. 3Episode 3

    52 minJan 19, 2020

    Lucille is seconded to St Cuthbert's when a ward sister is off sick, but a lift malfunction sees her spend the evening with mother-to- be Connie instead of her planned rendezvous with Cyril.

  4. 4Episode 4

    52 minJan 26, 2020

    Sister Julienne volunteers to put up four trainee doctors at Nonnatus House while they undertake the practical aspect of their obstetrics diploma, hoping the exercise will remind the council how vital the home is to the community and help remove the threat of demolition.

  5. 5Episode 5

    52 minFeb 2, 2020

    Sister Frances is at a loss when she cares for diabetic and recovering cancer patient Albert Calthorpe whose fiercely independent wife Grace refuses to accept further help, despite caring for her husband, her elderly mother and her pregnant daughter.

  6. 6Episode 6

    52 minFeb 9, 2020

    At the Turners, Shelagh receives a phone call from the Hong Kong adoption agency, which has the alarming news that someone from May's past has arrived in the UK and wants to see the little girl.

  7. 7Episode 7

    52 minFeb 16, 2020

    Trixie helps a blind mother, Marion, care for her new baby, but trouble starts when Marion’s sister calls Social Services to intervene.

  8. 8Episode 8

    52 minFeb 23, 2020

    Sister Julienne decides it is time to take matters in hand when a letter arrives from the council saying that it will cut funding to Nonnatus House and no longer pay for the accommodation, and goes to see Violet at one of her open sessions as a local councillor.

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Series cast

Vanessa RedgraveJennifer Worth (voice)117 episodes
Jenny AgutterSister Julienne117 episodes
Judy ParfittSister Monica Joan117 episodes
Stephen McGannDr Patrick Turner117 episodes
Cliff ParisiFred Burkle117 episodes
Helen GeorgeTrixie Franklin116 episodes
Laura MainShelagh 'Sister Bernadette' Turner109 episodes
Linda BassettPhyllis Crane87 episodes
Alice BrownAngela Turner76 episodes
Annabelle ApsionViolet Buckle76 episodes
Max MacmillanTimothy Turner65 episodes
Georgie GlenMiss Millicent Higgins55 episodes
Victoria YeatesSister Winifred48 episodes
April Rae HoangMay Tang47 episodes
Zephryn TaitteSergeant Woolf45 episodes
Bryony HannahCynthia Miller42 episodes
Leonie ElliottNurse Lucille Anderson41 episodes
Pam FerrisSister Evangelina39 episodes

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