Call the Midwife
Opening with the funeral of Winston Churchill in January 1965, series nine continues with Nonnatus House entering a bold and innovative era. As the tower blocks multiply, and a new East End rises from the ashes of the old, society becomes more prosperous, but more complex. Our familiar team of medics and midwives face unexpected challenges as the population shifts, rules change, and old diseases come back to haunt them. Meanwhile, their own experiences are fuelled by love, loss, and doubt - and the very fabric of their lives is jeopardised when Nonnatus itself comes under threat of demolition.
December 1964: The midwives answer the call for medical help in the Outer Hebrides.
In January 1965, a diphtheria outbreak sweeps through Poplar and Mother Mildred seeks to help a distraught woman who abandoned her newborn.
Sister Julienne intervenes in the case of a pregnant prostitute, a family's plan to leave Poplar are up in the air when a mysterious illness strikes, and Sgt. Woolf faces a health crisis of his own.
Lucille encounters a defiant expectant mother who is less than kind, Phyllis attempts to help an immigrant mother with an alarming medical condition, and Shelagh and Trixie put on a fashion show to raise funds for the maternity home.
Nonnatus House welcomes four male junior doctors to live and work among the midwives while Fred tries to help a sick man whose home is to be demolished.
The plight of a harried matriarch profoundly affects Sister Julienne and Sister Frances, while Sister Hilda helps a nervous expectant father.
Valerie's cousin Maureen endures a difficult labor and subsequent issues, while the Turners' adoption of May comes under threat.
Trixie helps a blind mother care for her new baby, Kevin makes an error which troubles Sister Frances, and Valerie becomes concerned for her grandmother.
The local council threatens to cut funding to Nonnatus House, which may face demolition. Two pregnant women discover they have something surprising in common.
|
Vanessa Redgrave | Mature Jennifer Worth |
|
Jenny Agutter | Sister Julienne |
|
Georgie Glen | Miss Millicent Higgins |
|
Judy Parfitt | Sister Monica Joan |
|
Annabelle Apsion | Violet Buckle |
|
Linda Bassett | Nurse Phyllis Crane |
|
Fenella Woolgar | Sister Hilda |
|
Helen George | Nurse Trixie Franklin |
|
Laura Main | Nurse Shelagh Turner |
|
Stephen McGann | Dr. Patrick Turner |
|
Alice Brown | Angela Turner |
|
Ella Bruccoleri | Sister Frances |
|
Leonie Elliott | Nurse Lucille Anderson |
|
Jennifer Kirby | Nurse Valerie Dyer |
|
April Rae Hoang | May Tang |
|
Cliff Parisi | Fred Buckle |
|
Lee Armstrong | Dr. Kevin McNulty |
|
Daniel Laurie | Reggie Jackson |
|
Zephryn Taitte | Cyril Robinson |
|
Max Macmillan | Timothy Turner |
|
Emilia Williams | Miss Graham |
|
Miriam Margolyes | Mother Mildred |
|
Trevor Cooper | Sergeant Aubrey Woolf |
|
Ann Mitchell | Elsie Dyer |
|
Juliet Oldfield | Maureen Bryant |
| Director | Sydney Macartney |
|
| Kate Cheeseman |
|
|
| David O'Neill |
|
|
| Noreen Kershaw |
|
|
| Writer | Heidi Thomas, Jennifer Worth, Debbie O'Malley, Helen Raynor, Paul Walker, Jonathan Harvey, Carolyn Bonnyman, Andrea Gibb | |
| Producer | Heidi Thomas, Ann Tricklebank, Pippa Harris, Mona Qureshi, Alec Thorne | |
| Musician | Maurizio Malagnini | |
| Photography | Toby Moore, David Mackie | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
|---|