I've watched every season and every episode of Call the Midwife available in North America. My cousin in the UK gave me the book that was written by Jennifer Worth shortly after it started in the UK. PBS picked it up in North America and I've watched it ever since. Season 15 will start on March 22 on PBS. We are always a few months behind the UK.
Call the Midwife is a warm, historically grounded British period drama about midwives and nuns working in Poplar, East London from the late 1950s onward; it’s created by Heidi Thomas and based on Jennifer Worth’s memoirs, and remains in production with long-running acclaim—perfect for viewers who like character-led, issue-driven drama.
Call the Midwife follows the staff of Nonnatus House, a nursing convent and midwifery team, as they deliver babies and care for families in a deprived East End community. The series blends intimate personal stories with social history—covering topics from post‑war poverty and housing to public‑health advances and national scandals.
The plot follows Jenny Lee, a newly qualified midwife, who joins the midwives and Anglican nuns of Nonnatus House; their work combines midwifery, community nursing, and social outreach in a deprived urban area where 80–100 births per month in Poplar make safe childbirth the central mission.
The show balances warmth and compassion with hard historical realities—poverty, public‑health crises, and changing social attitudes—delivered through episodic, patient‑centred stories grounded in historical research.
• Series 1 (1957): Baby boom, East End poverty, post‑war immigration.
• Series 2 (1958): Gas and air pain relief, unexploded ordnance, tuberculosis, spina bifida; Nonnatus House condemned.
• Series 3 (1959): Cystic fibrosis, polio, terminal care, midwifery in prison.
• Series 4 (1960): Child Migrants Programme, nuclear‑war fears, early LGBT themes, syphilis among sex workers.
• Series 5–9 (1961–1965): Thalidomide, contraceptive pill, typhoid, interracial marriage, dementia, sickle cell, abortion debates.
• Series 10–14 (1966–1970): Medical advances (ventouse, PKU screening), addiction and neonatal withdrawal, housing crises, political debates on immigration, fertility drugs, and social change; Series 15 set in 1971 was confirmed in 2025.
Call the Midwife has been officially confirmed the 16th season will return by the BBC, ensuring the series will continue. Despite intense storylines at the end of season 15 and a temporary, planned hiatus to focus on a new prequel and a feature film, the show is not ending, with production expected to continue in 2027 or 2028.
