Call the Midwife (2012)

Name: Call the Midwife
Rating: 7.5

Rating: 7.5

Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 2012-01-15

Last Air Date: 2026-03-08

Number of Seasons: 15

Number of Episodes: 117

Created By: Heidi Thomas

Networks: BBC One

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Top Cast

Vanessa Redgrave as Jennifer Worth (voice)
Helen George as Trixie Franklin
Jenny Agutter as Sister Julienne
Judy Parfitt as Sister Monica Joan
Cliff Parisi as Fred Burkle
Stephen McGann as Patrick Turner
Laura Main as Shelagh 'Sister Bernadette' Turner
Linda Bassett as Phyllis Crane
Alice Brown as Angela Turner
Annabelle Apsion as Violet Buckle

Seasons

Series 1 (2012)

Series 2 (2013)

Series 3 (2014)

Series 4 (2015)

Series 5 (2016)

Series 6 (2017)

Series 7 (2018)

Series 8 (2019)

Series 9 (2020)

Series 10 (2021)

Series 11 (2022)

Series 12 (2023)

Series 13 (2024)

Series 14 (2025)

Series 15 (2026)

Series 1 (2012)

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.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (2012-01-15)

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 25th time!
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (2012-01-22)

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.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (2012-01-29)

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 patient.
Ep. 4: Episode 4 (2012-02-05)

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.
Ep. 5: Episode 5 (2012-02-12)

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 involved in Fred’s latest money-making scheme which involves a pig called Evie.
Ep. 6: Episode 6 (2012-02-19)

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 shoplifting.