Call the Midwife; series 5 on PBS (open spoilers)

Series 5 of Call the Midwife starts tonight. Oddly the first episode is set at Easter making this almost perfect timing for PBS.

Some serious “real life history” stuff goes down this season. Be prepared.

Yeah, I’ve heard the Thalidomide disaster is a recurring subplot this season. :frowning: My mother remembers those babies.

Also, the Doctor makes a personal decision that contextually was very unlikely, so I think was done for the sake of modern television.

I forgot… Which one was Nurse Call?

Call the Midwife, the spin-off from Bob the Builder.

Hell, I remember those babies! I remember playing with a little girl in Germany with hands like starfishes# ( extra fingers)

#how I described it to myself, I was only about 5 or 6 at the time

The Easter Bonnet parade interested me, so it is kind of a joke thing with amusing hats, not real, fashionable hats?

It has already shown here in the UK and I barely made it through a single episode without blubbering like an idiot. Not sure why…maybe having been through a traumatic childbirth… but the stories really affected me.

Well the landlady sure was a nosy thieving bitch. :mad: I’m surprised she didn’t open the envelope and steal the cash as well. Is Chummy still running that maternity home? It’s a bit odd having her absent when her husband still lives & works in Poplar. :dubious: Does she show up at all this series?

She is slated to return to Nonnatus next season. The actress, Miranda Hart, has been busy doing a few other things, not least of which was the Melissa McCarthy movie Spy.

So the birth control pill has finally arrived; and apparently the NHS covered it for unmarried women right off that bat. Or was that just an oversight when Ministry of Health was writing guidelines and Dr Turner’s going to have to start diagnosing unmarried women with menstrual disorders? Also I think the only thing funnier than the idea of Nurse Crane demonstrating condom use on a wooden penis would be Sister Evangelina doing it.

Glad to hear this. She is my favorite of the young nurses. When her little boy was once being fussy, she told him to stop or “I’ll take you to the mirror and show you a naughty monkey.” I say that to the cats all the time.

Wow that was sad. I accidently read a spoiler about Sister Evangelina and still teared up watching it. :frowning: At least she got to see one last birth though. I still can’t picture her in a wedding dress & high heels though. :wink:

I had no idea it was coming and always thought Sister Monica Joan would be the first to go.

I liked the bit where the undertaker explained why he was willing to handle the funeral at no charge.

And I can well imagine the horror Dr Turner (and doctors in real life) felt when he found out that the medicine he’d been prescribing widely turned out to have such horrible side effects.