Call The Midwife – Series 1-7
Series 1: Jenny Lee gets her fi rst job at Nonnatus House and as she begins to care for her patients, she gradually becomes accustomed to her new environment, making friends with fellow midwives Cynthia, Trixie and Chummy.
Series 2: Now settled into Poplar, Jenny still finds herself shocked by the harsh conditions faced by many patients. Trixie and Sister Evangelina board a Swedish cargo ship to treat the Captain’s daughter and Dr Turner introduces the latest pain relief–gas and air.
Series 3: Jenny faces some tough personal and professional challenges, there are changes too for Chummy, as she settles into motherhood and for Sister Bernadette, now known as Shelagh, as she prepares to marry Dr Turner.
Series 4: The community prepares to enter a new decade–the 1960s–and welcomes new nurses Barbara Gilbert and Phyllis Crane. Nurse Cynthia embarks on a life-changing spiritual journey, Trixie receives a proposal, and Chummy takes on a new challenge.
Series 5: The hugely successful series starring Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Helen George and Linda Bassett returns with more touching and compelling stories from the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House. In this series Sister Monica Joan goes missing at Christmas time leaving the nuns and nurses distraught. Trixie, having battled through her issues with alcohol, finds a new purpose in her keep fit classes. And could friendship blossom into something more for vicar Tom Hereward and Barbara? Meanwhile, a string of babies born with severe and devastating deformities, casts a dark shadow over the entire team at Nonnatus House as they struggle to understand why.
Series 6: Join the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House once more as they visit the expectant mothers of Poplar, providing the poorest women with the best possible care. It’s now 1962 and times are changing. After receiving as SOS call from a mission hospital in South Africa, the Nonnatus family faces some of their toughest challenges yet with increasingly limited resources. Back in Poplar, when Sister Ursula is appointed the new head of Nonnatus House, Sister Julienne finds herself demoted and working back alongside the midwives. As they strive to help mothers and families cope with the demands of childbearing, disability, disease and social prejudice, our beloved medics must make choices – and fight battles – of their own. Inspired by the memoirs of midwife Jennifer Worth and starring Jenny Agutter (The Avengers), Charlotte Ritchie (Fresh Meat), Judy Pafitt (Little Dorrit) and Helen George (Doctors).
Series 7: The hugely successful drama returns with more laughs, tears and inspiring stories from the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House. The year is 1963, and the midwives find themselves tested both personally and professionally as never before. Together, they face challenging medical issues while fighting their own personal battles. Nurse Crane finds her authority questioned from an unexpected quarter, Sister Monica Joan is forced to accept her failing faculties, and the much-loved characters are joined by West Indian midwife Lucille Anderson – a funny and clever nurse who brings a fresh burst of energy to life at Nonnatus House.
