Call the Midwife: Season 1

2012 · 6 episodes · ★ 7.9

Series 1

What Season 1 of Call the Midwife

In season one we are introduced to the local community through the eyes of young nurse Jenny Lee as she lives and works as a midwife alongside the Nuns of the Order of St. Raymond of Nonnatus in the deprived Poplar district of London's desperately poor East End in the 1950s.

6episodes

Jan 15, 2012premiered

Feb 19, 2012last episode

5 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Episode 1
Jan 15, 2012 · 50 min · ★ 7.3
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!
Directing: Philippa Lowthorpe · Writer: Heidi Thomas · Starring: Hayley Squires, Carolina Valdés, Tim Faraday, Lacey Bond
1x02 Episode 2
Jan 22, 2012 · 46 min · ★ 7.9
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.
Directing: Philippa Lowthorpe · Writer: Heidi Thomas · Starring: Liam Reilly, Sophie Cosson, Amy McAllister, Mitchell Hunt
1x03 Episode 3
Jan 29, 2012 · 52 min · ★ 8.1
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.
Directing: Philippa Lowthorpe · Writer: Jack Williams · Starring: George Rainsford, Sophie Cosson, Valerie King, Roy Hudd
1x04 Episode 4
Feb 5, 2012 · 50 min · ★ 7.9
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.
Directing: Jamie Payne · Writer: Esther Wilson · Starring: George Rainsford, Amy McAllister, Tom Colley, Emma Noakes
1x05 Episode 5
Feb 12, 2012 · 49 min · ★ 7.6
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.
Directing: Jamie Payne · Writer: Harriet Warner · Starring: George Rainsford, Elizabeth Rider, Sean Baker, Jake Davies
1x06 Episode 6 Season Finale
Feb 19, 2012 · 51 min · ★ 8.3
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.
Directing: Jamie Payne · Writer: Heidi Thomas · Starring: George Rainsford, Kika Markham, Tina O'Brien, Elizabeth Webster