Call the Midwife: Season 9

2020 · 8 episodes · ★ 7.7

Series 9

What Season 9 of Call the Midwife

The medics and midwives of Nonnatus House are entering a bold and innovative era. They face unexpected challenges as the population shifts, rules change, and old diseases come back to haunt them. Meanwhile, their own experiences are fueled by love, loss, and doubt. And the very future of Nonnatus House comes under threat.

8episodes

Jan 5, 2020premiered

Feb 23, 2020last episode

6.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 9 Episodes

9x01 Episode 1
Jan 5, 2020 · 52 min
Dr Turner and Nurse Crane must deal with an alarming outbreak of diphtheria. Fred finds an abandoned baby in a dustbin, and the team must help locate its mother.
Directing: Kate Cheeseman · Writing: Heidi Thomas · Starring: Max Macmillan, Miriam Margolyes, Sherelle Kelleher, Jenny Rainsford
9x02 Episode 2
Jan 12, 2020 · 52 min · ★ 5.2
Sister Julienne cares for a pregnant prostitute, while Dr Turner puzzles over a mysterious string of symptoms.
Directing: Kate Cheeseman · Writing: Debbie O'Malley · Starring: Emilia Williams, Trevor Cooper, Amanda Root, Carly Bawden
9x03 Episode 3
Jan 19, 2020 · 52 min
Lucille is seconded to St Cuthbert's when a ward sister is off sick, but a lift malfunction sees her spend the evening with mother-to- be Connie instead of her planned rendezvous with Cyril.
Directing: David O'Neill · Writing: Helen Raynor · Starring: Zephryn Taitte, Emilia Williams, Ahaan Gupta, Natasha Thurrell
9x04 Episode 4
Jan 26, 2020 · 52 min
Sister Julienne volunteers to put up four trainee doctors at Nonnatus House while they undertake the practical aspect of their obstetrics diploma, hoping the exercise will remind the council how vital the home is to the community and help remove the threat of demolition.
Directing: David O'Neill · Writing: Paul Walker · Starring: Daniel Laurie, Phil Daniels, Sam Woolf, Lee Armstrong
9x05 Episode 5
Feb 2, 2020 · 52 min
Sister Frances is at a loss when she cares for diabetic and recovering cancer patient Albert Calthorpe whose fiercely independent wife Grace refuses to accept further help, despite caring for her husband, her elderly mother and her pregnant daughter.
Directing: Noreen Kershaw · Writing: Jonathan Harvey · Starring: Max Macmillan, Helen Antoniou, Karl Davies, Samantha Spiro
9x06 Episode 6
Feb 9, 2020 · 52 min
At the Turners, Shelagh receives a phone call from the Hong Kong adoption agency, which has the alarming news that someone from May's past has arrived in the UK and wants to see the little girl.
Directing: Noreen Kershaw · Writing: Carolyn Bonnyman · Starring: Zephryn Taitte, Max Macmillan, Daniel Laurie, Brian Croucher
9x07 Episode 7
Feb 16, 2020 · 52 min
Trixie helps a blind mother, Marion, care for her new baby, but trouble starts when Marion’s sister calls Social Services to intervene.
Directing: Sydney Macartney · Writing: Andrea Gibb · Starring: Zephryn Taitte, Katie Moore, Ann Mitchell, Lizzy Connolly
9x08 Episode 8 Season Finale
Feb 23, 2020 · 52 min
Sister Julienne decides it is time to take matters in hand when a letter arrives from the council saying that it will cut funding to Nonnatus House and no longer pay for the accommodation, and goes to see Violet at one of her open sessions as a local councillor.
Directing: Sydney Macartney · Writing: Heidi Thomas · Starring: Zephryn Taitte, Daniel Laurie, Nicky Goldie, Ann Mitchell