Call the Midwife

2012•17 series•Entertainment / Medical

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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.

Episode 0Christmas Special 2015: Part 1

...Special (2015): While Nonnatus House is dealt an unexpected blow close to home, a surprise for a grieving mother brings some much-needed Christmas cheer. Contains mature themes.

Episode 1Call the Midwife

Easter approaches in the spring of 1961 and Patsy helps to deliver a baby that is born with severe deformities. Trixie teaches a keep fit class which results in a medical emergency.

Episode 2Call the Midwife

Barbara faces the biggest test of her career, Nurse Crane learns to speak Spanish, and Sister Evangelina helps a woman with breastfeeding, leading to unforeseen consequences.

Episode 3Call the Midwife

More trouble for the nuns and midwives of Nonnatus House as a typhoid crisis threatens to erupt, tearing a family apart, and Sister Winifred faces a personal dilemma.

Episode 4Call the Midwife

The pressures of modern Britain reach Poplar, as a busy local hospital secondment and a difficult birth raise moral questions for Sister Julienne.

Episode 5Call the Midwife

New mother Roseanne's past continues to haunt her, wreaking havoc on her family life, and a back injury forces Violet to put her beloved shop in the care of Fred.

Episode 6Call the Midwife

Warmhearted drama. A spate of violent attacks on women impacts directly on the residents of Nonnatus House. A secret pregnancy threatens the life of a young girl.