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Call the Midwife

“In 1950's London, they delivered hope for all.”

7.5 / 10 · 261 votes

TV-PG

2012

~52 min / ep

15 seasons

117 episodes

Drama

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

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Cast

Vanessa Redgrave

Helen George

Jenny Agutter

Judy Parfitt

Cliff Parisi

Stephen McGann

Laura Main

Linda Bassett

Alice Brown

Annabelle Apsion

Max Macmillan

Victoria Yeates

Seasons

In season one we are introduced to the local community through the eyes of young nurse Jenny Lee as she lives and works as a midwife alongside the Nuns of the Order of St. Raymond of Nonnatus in the deprived Poplar district of London's desperately poor East End in the 1950s.

1.Episode 1
7.2
15-01-201252 min
Jenny Lee start her midwife career at Nonnatus House in London. She is surprised to find that it is a nursing convent and not a hospital. Her first case is a woman pregnant for the...
2.Episode 2
7.9
22-01-201252 min
A new girl arrives Nonnatus House and finds it hard to earn the respect of Sister Evangelina. Jenny sees an unfamiliar darker side of life following an encounter with a runaway.
3.Episode 3
8.1
29-01-201252 min
Jenny does some district nursing to extend her community practice experience and befriends an old soldier with awful leg ulcers. Trixie and Cynthia enrol Winnie Lawson as a new pat...
4.Episode 4
7.9
05-02-201252 min
A baby girl is snatched from her pram and the local community unites for the search. Cynthia sees another sort of loss as she tends to soon-to-be parents David and Margaret.
5.Episode 5
7.6
12-02-201252 min
When Peggy’s brother is diagnosed with cancer, Jenny and the nuns are called upon to care for him. Jenny gets to know the siblings better. The Nonnatus House residents get involve...
6.Episode 6
8.3
19-02-201252 min
When Chummy's imperious mother visits and disapproves of Peter Noakes, Chummy defies her mother and has her wedding on her own terms. Senile Sister Monica Joan is arrested for shop...

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