Call the Midwife

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Call the Midwife is a British television drama series set in the 1950s and 1960s, following midwives and nuns working in London's impoverished East End.

Based on Jennifer Worth's memoirs, the show depicts childbirth, poverty, and social change through the lens of the Nonnatus House community.

The title has become shorthand for nostalgic, heartwarming period drama with medical and social themes.

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delivery · boiling water · umbilical cord · pregnant · labour · NHS · 1950s · East End · London · nuns · convent · bicycle · district · mother · cord · forceps · Poplar · Jenny

Opposites
life stage focus

Call the MidwifeAfter Life

Existence beyond death

The End · palliative care · funeral home · end-of-life care · euthanasia

tonal register

Call the MidwifeUtopia

Imagined perfect society

Peaky Blinders · Happy Valley · The Wire · Taboo · Breaking Bad

setting and milieu

Call the MidwifeDownton Abbey

British period drama series

The Crown · Mad Men

Family

call, calls, called, calling, caller, callers, callback, midwife, midwives

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG