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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The Nonnatus House team head to the Outer Hebrides in response to a nursing shortage.

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Episode 1. A baby is abandoned in a dustbin, and the team battle an unexpected outbreak of diphtheria.

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Episode 2. The team care for a pregnant prostitute.

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Episode 3. Lucille delivers a baby in a lift and Nurse Crane treats a Sylheti woman.

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Episode 4. Four new doctors come to stay, and Fred and Reggie help an old man and his pigeons.

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Episode 5. Sister Frances struggles to persuade the wife of a cancer patient to accept help.

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Episode 6. May’s adoption comes under threat, and the team care for a gravely ill baby.

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Episode 7. Trixie helps a blind mother care for her new baby, and Kevin faces a crisis at work.

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Episode 8. The local council threatens to cut funding to Nonnatus House, which may face demolition.

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