Call The Midwife

2020
4.8
1.22K reviews
TV-14
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Season 6 episodes (10)

1 Christmas Special 2016, Pt. 1
25/12/16
Nonnatus House receives an SOS from a tiny mission hospital on the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Understaffed, underfunded, and with a poor water supply, struggling Hope Clinic is faced with closure. Can our much loved medics and midwives make a difference to the people whose lives depend upon its work?
2 Christmas Special 2016, Pt. 2
25/12/16
Far from home and everything familiar, the team are both shaken and exhilarated by the challenges they face - and by the time the mission trip is over, some lives are permanently changed.
3 Episode 1
3/4/17
The midwives receive a rapturous welcome when they return from their South African adventure - but all is not well at Nonnatus House. As the Nonnatuns chafe under new rules, the midwives are drawn into helping heavily pregnant mother Trudy Watts, whose husband has just been released from prison for extortion.
4 Episode 2
10/4/17
Sister Ursula continues to reign with an iron fist and the midwives at Nonnatus House struggle to toe the line, especially when she insists they must not be emotionally involved with their patients. This unpopular new edict is immediately put to the test when new father George Marsh is badly burnt in an explosion at the docks and is unable to support his new family.
5 Episode 3
4/2/17
A Chinese first-time mother faces an unexpected crisis, whilst new legislation and Sister Ursula cause serious problems for Shelagh and Dr. Turner.
6 Episode 4
24/4/17
An expectant mother buckles under the strains of pregnancy. As Tom provides pastoral care, he reveals why this case has touched him more than most.
7 Episode 5
1/5/17
Nonnatus House welcomes a new recruit, Nurse Valerie Dyer. A vulnerable young man captures the hearts of the Fred and Violet whilst the whereabouts of Sister Mary Cynthia causes distress amongst the team.
8 Episode 6
25/2/17
Valerie Dyer oversees the care of an expectant Somali woman and is shocked when she uncovers a troubling aspect to this unfamiliar culture. The Nonnatus family unites to provide the very best care for Sister Mary Cynthia.
9 Episode 7
15/5/17
Dr. Turner helps the Mullucks cope with the stresses of caring for a disabled child as the terrible legacy of thalidomide becomes apparent and Nurse Crane faces an unexpected crisis.
10 Episode 8
22/5/17
The midwives oversee the opening of a family planning clinic at the local community center. Rediscovering her independence, Wilma visits the clinic and starts taking the contraceptive pill behind her husband's back. Elsewhere, Shelagh's due date is fast approaching and she must decide which of the Nonnatus midwives will deliver the baby.

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.

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4.8
1.22K reviews
Debbie Phillips
1 May 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.
24 June 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
15 August 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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