Call The Midwife

2020
4.8
1.22K reviews
TV-14
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Season 9 episodes (10)

1 Christmas Special 2019, Pt. 1
12/25/19
As Christmas approaches, a bout of influenza sweeps through both Nonnatus House and the Turner family. When Mother Mildred declares that God is calling her to set up a branch house in the Outer Hebrides, it seems an ideal opportunity for the nuns and midwives to convalesce in the bracing Scottish air.
2 Christmas Special 2019, Pt. 2
12/25/19
Dr. Turner, Shelagh, Mother Mildred, Trixie, Sister Julienne, Valerie and Lucille set off on their journey to the Outer Hebrides, where they are to stay in a freezing cold converted church. As the team set about establishing an antenatal clinic and treating the local population, they must battle not only the weather and bleak terrain, but the suspicions of some of the islanders.
3 Episode 1
3/29/20
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.
4 Episode 2
4/5/20
Leading up to Mother's Day, the team must survive Lent and are forced to give up more than just cigarettes and sugar. Meanwhile, Dr. Turner puzzles over a mysterious string of symptoms.
5 Episode 3
4/12/20
Lucille is trapped in a lift with a woman in labor while working at St. Cuthbert's, and Nurse Crane helps a Sylheti woman with fistula.
6 Episode 4
4/19/20
Four new doctors arrive at Nonnatus House and ruffle some feathers. Fred and Reggie try to help an old man and his pigeons, while Dr. Turner tries to solve the old man's cough.
7 Episode 5
4/26/20
Sister Frances struggles to persuade the wife of a cancer patient to accept help, and as the nation obsesses over The Sound of Music, Sister Julienne considers the privileges of being a nun.
8 Episode 6
5/3/20
Maya's adoption by the Turners comes under threat when someone from her past appears. Valeriea's cousin's baby has a devastating illness, and Kevin returns to work with Dr. Turner.
9 Episode 7
5/10/20
Trixie helps a blind mother, Marion, care for her new baby, but trouble starts when Marion's sister calls Social Services to intervene.
10 Episode 8
5/17/20
The team must rally to prepare for Sister Monica Joan's birthday. The closing of a maternity home brings an influx of expectant mothers.

About this show

A moving, intimate, funny and, above all, true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London from the Fifties, based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty or indeed, life itself. Attached to an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House, Jenny is part of a team of midwives who visit expectant mothers, providing the poorest women with the best possible care.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
1.22K reviews
Debbie Phillips
May 1, 2015
Great series! Each episode tells a story of life on the outskirts of London, England in the poorest section of the city. Each episode shows how the midwives care for their patients, the patients families and each other. This is England in the 1950's after W.W.2. Good BBC production!
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Teresa S.
June 24, 2013
Call the Midwife is a great show. It really makes you appreciate advances in medicine, and changes in social attitudes towards pregnancy and birth. I am definitely pro-midwife assisted birthing, but thankfully enemas are no longer part of the deal!
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A Google user
August 15, 2016
Between Call the Midwife never missed a a season, and watching Downton Abbey my Sunday nights where in the best place. How I found out about this series I actually read her books every one of them and when I found out they were on PBS I had to watch them and was hooked. Thanks Masterpiece Theater for making 2 of the most wonderful and intriguing Shadows I've ever seen. :) :) :)
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