Call the Midwife

About Call the Midwife

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.

BBC One's Call the Midwife is a drama series. Its themes are nostalgic, 1950s, loving, and thoughtful.

Since January 2012 it has reached 15 seasons and 117 episodes. It is still in production. Seasons run to about 8 episodes.

Vanessa Redgrave appears as Jennifer Worth (voice), Jenny Agutter as Sister Julienne, Judy Parfitt as Sister Monica Joan, and Molly Vevers as Sister Catherine. It is adapted from a novel. Production companies include BBC and Neal Street Productions.

It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States. The Chosen, A Young Doctor's Notebook, and Patriot make useful companions to Call the Midwife, all filed under comforting and empathetic. TMDB voters put it at 7.6 out of 10 across 267 votes and it carries a TV-PG rating.