Call The Midwife.

Yes, the shoes were ridiculous. And I suppose the gloves were ‘driving gloves’. And then going for a lesson in that old van.

Trixie’s posh voice gets worse.

Have read somewhere that Matthew is being written out. Not sure if that’s correct though.

I watched Sundays episode but switched off halfway through. It was so tedious and predictable. Plus the BBC is taking this diversity thing to extremes.
I wish they would be more careful about language. So often they forget that the series is set during the 60s/70s, and language has changed. They need to keep everything true to the time it is set in.

Could Trixie not have got the tube to work? We certainly had the District and Central Lines running through Bow and Mile End in 1960s.
Also, I think the electric socket covered in mould was too modern for the era?

Trixie’s posh accent really grates on me and I think the Doc looks very, very old and haggard now.

The woman with the mouldy flat finally got workmen in and my husband spotted the man with the tube of silicone sealant in a dispenser sealing the windows and he can’t remember those being around in the 60s.

I don’t mind Trixie’s voice, but I find her very artificial appearance unappealing. Her hair and her make-up look completely fake, like a china doll.

I think ctm has started to become a bit tedious and predictable now.For me it's definitely lost something. Not sure atm if I'll continue to watch. I might dip into it occasionally to see if it improves!

This is July 1969 - the Apollo landing!

Did people really have tiny televisions circa 1953?
You could rent televisions then - even colour ones!

We didn’t have tv in 1953, it was 1953 Queen Elizabeth’s coronation

Are you saying colour tv’s in 1969 (yes) or 1953 (no)?

I was just sitting saying the same Callistemon. This series feels as though they are mixing at least two decades together.
We’ve got a 1950’s TV with late 1960’s moon landing and a story line about the conflict between being a wife and a career woman.

Very muddled tonight. I remember 1969 vividly and we weren’t well off but we had a more modern TV than that and in colour.

Also! The fashions weren’t right tonight.

Not bothered whether I watch CTMW now. I think it’s run it’s course.

Anniebach

We didn’t have tv in 1953, it was 1953 Queen Elizabeth’s coronation

We bought one especially for the Coronation.

In 1969 I was married and it was usual to rent TVs at that time.

Anniebach

We didn’t have tv in 1953, it was 1953 Queen Elizabeth’s coronation

Sorry, I meant the TVs on CTM looked like 1953 versions, not the larger ones we had in 1969!

I haven’t seen that episode, if the tv is in the nuns residence then I can certainly believe a small tv, I worked in a convent for
some years

And they seem to film in the dark too.

My DD who has always worked in film and TV, has explained the reason for many scenes in the dark or half dark is that it is much cheaper for the production. This is because any old scenery, clothes or props will suffice in the half dark, whereas in day time or bright light everything has to be perfect.

Primrose53

Very muddled tonight. I remember 1969 vividly and we weren’t well off but we had a more modern TV than that and in colour.

Also! The fashions weren’t right tonight.

Not bothered whether I watch CTMW now. I think it’s run it’s course.

I have often thought the fashions weren't right.

We had a small tv like that in the late 1960s. I left home in 1975 and mum and dad still had a black and white TV. That may have been because the licence fee was cheaper for a black and white set.

I remember 1969 vividly my daughter was 4 mths old and I had her on my lap watching the moon landing with my mil on her rented colour tv. Nearly everyone I knew had a reasonable size tv by then with no need to watch on other people’s tv and I agree the clothes weren’t right. I sometimes don’t bother watching now.

tanith

I remember 1969 vividly my daughter was 4 mths old and I had her on my lap watching the moon landing with my mil on her rented colour tv. Nearly everyone I knew had a reasonable size tv by then with no need to watch on other people’s tv and I agree the clothes weren’t right. I sometimes don’t bother watching now.

I remember being astonished because our neighbours bought their TV!
The rest of us thought they were quite foolish 😁

Calendargirl

Yes, the shoes were ridiculous. And I suppose the gloves were ‘driving gloves’. And then going for a lesson in that old van.

Trixie’s posh voice gets worse.

Have read somewhere that Matthew is being written out. Not sure if that’s correct though.

Guess where I started driving. Yes in an old van on a disused airfield. My dad wore gloves when driving,our very old Ford had next to no heating.

This happens so often with popular programmes when they dont know when to stop. The present storylines are weak and the characters are jaded. Even Sister Julienne looks fed up with it all. How about a nice juicy story concerning Timothy living the life of a sixties medical student? That would give Shelagh and the doctor something to react to.

Freya. Oh yes, am sure many people learnt in an old van. DH and I had one when we were courting, we hand painted it inside and out, dark blue outside, light blue inside. Can you imagine that now?

I just meant posh Trixie and wealthy Matthew wouldn’t need to do that.

Parsley.

Great idea for a story. Timothy is such a goody goody.

Whilst I agree that CtM is definitely past its sell-by date, I really enjoyed last night’s episode. My late older brother and I stayed up all night watching the moon landing, he’d recently got a well paid job on an oil rig and walked in one day with a big (to us) new colour TV as a surprise gift to the family.
He was 12 years older than me, I was still at school and we didn’t really have much in common at that time but we were both enthralled by space travel.
That night is one of my best memories of my much missed brother, he’s been dead ten years this month.

Did anyone wonder if the giggling and arm touching between Timothy and Nancy was suggestive of a romantic spark looming?