Sister Monica Joan is rushed to hospital, while Trixie is less than impressed to receive a subscription to a Marriage Bureau as a Christmas present. Meanwhile, the circus ...

In January 1965, a diphtheria outbreak sweeps through Poplar and Mother Mildred seeks to help a distraught woman who abandoned her newborn. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Cuban missile crisis dominates the news, prompting Civil Defender Fred to put the area on nuclear alert. However, the nurses have their own crises. Valerie is shocked ...

New recruit Valerie Dyer starts work. Fred and Violet take in Reggie, a young man with Down syndrome, whose mother, Fred's cousin, has died. They quickly find he needs mo ...

Taking pity on pregnant Marnie Walker, whose husband abandoned his family, leaving Marnie with huge debts, Trixie refers her to Tom. In his efforts to help her Tom is stu ...

Returning from South Africa the midwives find the grim Sister Ursula has taken over as superior from Sister Julienne and is intent on imposing a frugal regime and an unwe ...

As Christmas 1962 approaches Sister Julienne gets a call from the Hope Clinic, a mission hospital in South Africa, in danger of closure due to under-staffing on the eve o ...

Barbara and Tom go to the aid of a prostitute, who has been bitten by her assailant - the first of a series of similar vicious attacks on women. The culprit is caught, la ...

Based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth; the story follows twenty-two year old Jenny, who in 1957 leaves her comfortable home to become a midwife in London's East End. She ...

Now a nun, Sister Mary Cynthia, Cynthia Miller returns to work as a midwife and finds that Sister Julienne has a problem with Janice and Ray Prendergast, who are Christia ...

Based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth; the story follows twenty-two year old Jenny, who in 1957 leaves her comfortable home to become a midwife in London's East End. She ...

Based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth; the story follows twenty-two year old Jenny, who in 1957 leaves her comfortable home to become a midwife in London's East End. She ...