# Call the Midwife; series 5 on PBS (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140 "2016-04-03T23:52:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/1 "2016-04-03T23:52:17Z")
Series 5 of **Call the Midwife** starts tonight. Oddly the first episode is set at Easter making this almost perfect timing for PBS. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/2 "2016-04-04T01:21:51Z")
Some serious “real life history” stuff goes down this season. Be prepared. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/3 "2016-04-04T01:36:18Z")
Yeah, I’ve heard the Thalidomide disaster is a recurring subplot this season. ☹ My mother remembers those babies. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/4 "2016-04-04T02:18:57Z")
Also, the Doctor makes a personal decision that contextually was very unlikely, so I think was done for the sake of modern television. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/5 "2016-04-04T18:11:50Z")
I forgot… Which one was Nurse Call? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/6 "2016-04-05T00:31:54Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Which one was Nurse Call? _Call the Midwife_, the spin-off from _Bob the Builder_. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/7 "2016-04-05T02:57:23Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Yeah, I’ve heard the Thalidomide disaster is a recurring subplot this season. ☹ My mother remembers those babies. 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? ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/8 "2016-04-05T21:31:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/9 "2016-04-18T01:12:05Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/10 "2016-04-18T01:34:38Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Is Chummy still running that maternity home? … 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_. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/11 "2016-05-16T01:50:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/12 "2016-05-16T12:02:35Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > 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_. 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. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/13 "2016-05-24T23:35:33Z")
Wow that was sad. I accidently read a spoiler about Sister Evangelina and still teared up watching it. ☹ At least she got to see one last birth though. I still can’t picture her in a wedding dress & high heels though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/14 "2016-05-26T22:17:46Z")
I had no idea it was coming and always thought Sister Monica Joan would be the first to go. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-midwife-series-5-on-pbs-open-spoilers/751140/15 "2016-05-26T22:56:10Z")
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.