Call the midwife

Casdon, she is also in ‘Dodger’ on CBeebies. Very talented, with promise of a successful future I suspect. Her storyline was heartbreaking but neatly pulled together at the end with Poplar kindness. I worked in Camberwell in the ‘60s - neighbourly support definitely existed as did substandard housing.
I loved how Tim stepped up and Phyllis erupted to ensure an upbeat ending. Plenty of tears along the way.

Good old Phyllis. Looking forward to the next series.

Best episode of the series. Sr Julienne was back to her old self, and we also saw the lovely kind side of Violet. And great to see Phyllis back, bossing everyone around.

The actress who played Carol was so well cast, she acted brilliantly for such a young girl.

lovely, uplifting tonight

Well that was a tear jerker indeed and when they played the Val Doonican song, it set me off again as it reminded me of my late Mum and her sister being great fans of Val, and my happy childhood times around the late 60’s.

Great, they survived! Roll on the next series.

Pleased that despite all the trauma, Miss Millicent’s trusty hat never moved a centimetre on her head.

Aw that was lovely. A real tear jerker, and no one leaving the series.

Phyllis saves the day!!

Ooh it's started.

Me too gillgran.

Looking forward to tonight's final episode of Call the midwife, after last week's train crash.
Who survives? & who's being written out of future series?

I really don't fancy a new series of CTM with Nancy as one of the central characters.
When you recall Chummy, Patsy, Cynthia , Barbara et Al it just shows how much the quality has dropped.

Oh dear.

Front cover of Radio Times this week - “DON’T DO IT! Bump off Sister Julienne? No! A nation begs Call the Midwife creator Heidi Thomas for mercy”.
Article inside says that two more series of the show have been confirmed, taking the cast to New Year’s Eve, 1969.

I hadn’t watched CTM for a few years, then binge watched it from the very beginning after reading comments on here. I agree with the rest of you, it’s definitely past it’s best now. The difference in the quality of the scripts between the early years and now is very noticeable.
I was really irritated on Sunday when Nancy expressed surprise when Sister J said that gas and air had only been available for about ten years, as a trained midwife should she not have already known this?

My first baby, born in 1969, was born in local maternity hospital, and there were some Nuns amongst the staff there. This was in East London.
Dreadful place that maternity hospital, NO showers, and only three baths for all patients (ante and post-natal). When a baby was born very sick at was immediately transferred to local hospital, leaving the Mum a couple of miles away from it.
This was closed down a couple of years later. New Maternity Unit build at that hospital.
My next baby due in 1970, and I was told that it would HAVE to be born at home even though we had no indoors or upstairs loo. Best of all the deliveries I had.

Just caught up tonight. Well, that was weird.

Yes, time to say goodbye. It's run its course.

I don't ever remember nuns running maternity services but perhaps they did in some areas. Even in the 1950s and 1960s there were NHS maternity homes, local clinics where pregnant women went for their checkups or to he GP surgery.
In the 1970s any midwife I came across worked for the LHA or out of the GP surgeries.

The nuns seem to be in charge in CTM which seems odd to me.

I'd miss it but think it's probably time to call it a day. Several characters seem to have run their course. Sr Julienne has come across as bored and fed up at Nonnatus House over the past couple of series, Trixie looks out of place and like someone who desperately needs to move on, and Phyllis is obviously approaching retirement age and now has the financial means to do so.
Poplar would also have been rapidly changing by the late sixties. Most women would have been having their babies in hospital and a welfare state would have been running a lot of the services traditionally supplied by the sisters. The demolishment of the old tenements would have altered the feel of a community once populated by families who had known each other for generations. A huge migration out to the newer suburbs, particularly by younger people would have been another radical change.

Probably time to give Trixie her happy ending, retire Sr Monica Joan to the mother House, let Cyril and Lucille buy a house somewhere and start a family and, presuming Sr Julienne has died in the crash, charge Sr Hilda with guiding Nonnatus House into a new and different future.

I agree with Aveline and Grandmadinosaur, I’ve enjoyed it through the years but feel it’s now run it’s course. I read an article last week from Stephen McGann saying the last two episodes would contain shocks and something tragic, so was not too surprised by the very predictable ending last evening. I think the stories now have strayed a long way from Jennifer Worth’s original stories. Such a shame she died before it was televised.

It did seem rather like a soap opera. You just knew what was coming and not approached especially well in my opinion. I fear it may be time to call it a day.
Am I correct in thinking Trixie had gone to nurse her Godmother in Portofino? They mentioned a postcard she’d sent from Naples. It’s the other end of Italy from Portofino!

kittylester

I suspect that Sister Julienne has something wrong and the bird foretold of her demise!

just realised I'm a week behind - ignore me!!

I also found Sr Frances' beaming delight at the legalising of abortion all wrong. Likewise Sheila's reaction. Have the writers actually met or spoken with any very religious women?