Call The Midwife

2020
4.8
1.22K reviews
TV-14
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Season 4 episodes (9)

1 Christmas Special 2014
12/25/14
Rehearsals are underway for the Christmas Concert. Chummy is enlisted to help run a poorly managed mother and baby home, and with Patsy's help succeeds in bringing some festive joy to the residents. Cynthia is drawn into a case concerning two former residents of a Victorian mental hospital who have been left to fend for themselves, and are barely coping. There is but one question in all of their hearts - what will 1960 bring?
2 Episode 1
1/18/15
A chance encounter with an impoverished child forces Trixie to see an unfamiliar darker side of life. As Nonnatus House welcomes a new resident, Nurse Barbara Gilbert, Tom Hereward has a surprise romantic gesture in store for Trixie.
3 Episode 2
1/25/15
Barbara faces her most challenging case to date when she treats first-time mother Abigail and the birth does not go according to plan. As Sister Julienne struggles with the increasing financial pressure on Nonnatus House, a mystery benefactor comes to the rescue. Elsewhere Sister Evangelina is unimpressed by newly arrived nurse Phyllis Crane.
4 Episode 3
2/1/15
As Poplar is gripped by a mysterious outbreak of dysentery, first-time mother Marie Amos's life is turned upside down when her husband Tony is arrested for gross indecency with another man. Meanwhile, Nurse Crane meets Dolores McEvoy, a pregnant Irish woman with two young children who, on examination, is found to be covered in flea bites and clearly malnourished.
5 Episode 4
2/8/15
The midwives face one of their busiest nights to date, while Sister Winifred concentrates her efforts on the prostitutes of Poplar. Elsewhere, cracks start to appear in Trixie and Tom Hereward's relationship.
6 Episode 5
2/15/15
Sister Julienne's faith is challenged when a mother refuses medicine for her newborn baby. Dr. Turner's involvement in the case forces him to face his own demons. Meanwhile, Barbara must work out a way to communicate with a pregnant Sylheti woman.
7 Episode 6
2/22/15
A young diabetic girl faces heartbreak when she falls pregnant as a result of a clandestine romance. Elsewhere, the midwives become involved with a settlement of Irish Travelers and Sister Mary Cynthia delivers her first baby since becoming a nun.
8 Episode 7
3/1/15
The maternity home sees two school friends reunited and their lives become intertwined in the most unexpected way. Elsewhere, Barbara and Sister Mary Cynthia team up to implement a revolutionary technique on their bedsore patient before it is discovered that it is his steadfast wife who is the one most in need of care.
9 Episode 8
3/8/15
Trixie and Sister Mary Cynthia team up to support a deaf mother-to-be, while a case of morning sickness proves more serious than initially suspected. Elsewhere, Fred's daughter is less than delighted about his forthcoming wedding.

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
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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