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

Christmas Special 2017. The team care for their patients during the big freeze, the worst winter in living memory.

Episode 1Call the Midwife

A new midwife joins the team as the area is rocked by power cuts and blizzards, but she falls ill as soon as she arrives and soon has to assist with a difficult birth.

Episode 2Call the Midwife

Lucille is on duty when a friend of Valerie's goes into labour - but when the patient's health deteriorates, the new recruit is accused of incompetence by her racist mother.

Episode 3Call the Midwife

Nurse Crane and Trixie investigate when a mother abandons her children at the clinic. When the woman is sent to a neurologist, the results are devastating for the whole family.

Episode 4Call the Midwife

Sister Julienne helps a woman from Pakistan who is unable to have children, but who has found to her shock that her husband is bringing a pregnant second wife into their home.