Call the Midwife

2012•14 series•Entertainment / Drama
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Adapted by Heidi Thomas from the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, this drama series is a moving look at midwifery and family life in the late 1950s and early 1960s in East End London. Initially the series follows newly qualified midwife Jenny Lee, who is surprised to find herself at a convent alongside nuns who are working as midwives and nurses in the local community. As the series progresses, the nurses navigate revolutionary changes in healthcare as well as social changes in post-war Britain.

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...Special (2014): While the Poplar residents prepare for the Sunday school concert, Cynthia is drawn to the case of two former patients of a mental asylum. Contains mature themes.

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Episode 1. A chance encounter forces Trixie to see an unfamiliar darker side of life.

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Episode 2. Sister Julienne struggles with the increasing financial pressure on Nonnatus House. Some upsetting scenes.

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Episode 3. The Nonnatus team rallies to support first-time parents Marie and Tony Amos.

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Episode 4. The midwives face one of their busiest nights to date.

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Episode 5. Sister Julienne's faith is challenged when a mother refuses medicine for her newborn baby.

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Episode 6. A young diabetic girl faces heartbreak when she falls pregnant.

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Episode 7. Two school friends are reunited and their lives become intertwined in an unexpected way.

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Episode 8. Trixie and Sister Mary Cynthia team up to support a deaf mother-to-be.

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