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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.
Top Billed Cast
Vanessa Redgrave
Jennifer Worth (voice)
Jenny Agutter
Sister Julienne
Judy Parfitt
Sister Monica Joan
Molly Vevers
Sister Catherine
Rebecca Gethings
Sister Veronica
Natalie Quarry
Nurse Rosalind Clifford
Linda Bassett
Nurse Phyllis Crane
Renee Bailey
Nurse Joyce Highland
Stephen McGann
Dr Patrick Turner
Laura Main
Nurse Shelagh Turner
Georgie Glen
Miss Millicent Higgins
Cliff Parisi
Fred Buckle
Zephryn Taitte
Cyril Robinson
Episodes
Episode 1
Jenny Lee start her midwife career at Nonnatus House in London. She is surprised to find that it is a nursing convent and not a hospital. Her first case is a woman pregnant for the 25th time!
Episode 2
A new girl arrives Nonnatus House and finds it hard to earn the respect of Sister Evangelina. Jenny sees an unfamiliar darker side of life following an encounter with a runaway.
Episode 3
Jenny does some district nursing to extend her community practice experience and befriends an old soldier with awful leg ulcers. Trixie and Cynthia enrol Winnie Lawson as a new patient.
Episode 4
A baby girl is snatched from her pram and the local community unites for the search. Cynthia sees another sort of loss as she tends to soon-to-be parents David and Margaret.
Episode 5
When Peggy’s brother is diagnosed with cancer, Jenny and the nuns are called upon to care for him. Jenny gets to know the siblings better. The Nonnatus House residents get involved in Fred’s latest money-making scheme which involves a pig called Evie.
Episode 6
When Chummy's imperious mother visits and disapproves of Peter Noakes, Chummy defies her mother and has her wedding on her own terms. Senile Sister Monica Joan is arrested for shoplifting.
