Christmas 1962 sees an unprecedently heavy snow fall and a burst pipe in the community hall requires the clinic to be held in a local pub as well as cancelling the pantom ...

As the bitter winter continues new midwife Lucille Anderson, delayed by bad weather, eventually arrives in the middle of a power cut. She is Jamaican, prompting the other ...

Lucille delivers hair-dresser Marjory Chivvers' baby but faces racist prejudice from Marjory's mother Mae, who blames Lucille when her daughter has a stroke. However Luci ...

Trixie is concerned for Doreen Lunt, living in squalor with her ragged children and beleaguered husband Gordon. She learns that the depressed mother fears she will be loc ...

Married to Saddiq Gani in Pakistan and now pregnant at 15, Parveen's case perturbs the midwives on the discovery of his previous marriage to older cousin Mumtaz. Mumtaz i ...

Having stowed away on a ship from Nigeria Ade Babayaro is thrown out of the seaman's mission on suspicion of having smallpox. Reggie finds his hiding place and tells Phyl ...

Pearl and Terry Davidson arrive from Northern Ireland with their two small children to open a newsagents but Terry dies in a car crash, leaving the pregnant Pearl to run ...

Barbara is kept in isolation with Meningitis whilst Lucille, taking on her patients, makes new friends with a fellow Jamaican couple. Dr Turner, attending a scabies outbr ...

As a grieving Tom considers his future Sister Monica Joan wanders into a cinema, meeting projectionist Stanley Hodgkiss. His daughter Olive, separated from her husband, i ...