Teal, babies and death. Call The Midwife it’s Dr One Face

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Poor Barbara

Yes, there was no need for them to be gay. It wasn’t fully explored and you say he could have just been ‘Uncle John’ who needs looking after.

I've just watched it

Managed to hold most of my tears in....until Reggie gave the Tom that little carousel. Oh god that's heartbreaking

Phyllis definitely said “here’s your prize” and I’m reasonably she followed it up with “you have a baby girl”.

I've just rewound it to watch the scene with Josie giving birth

Phylis said "here he is. Your prize"

AppleKatie the "what do you get a nun for her birthday" struggle is real! My mum always used to get her best nun-friend an arrangement of flowers for the chapel in the convent. I did think it was weird though that they didn't sing happy birthday to Angela while she was blowing out the candles on her teal cake, but they sang it to Sr MJ?
Also this means that both Sr MJ and Angela are valentines babies!
On the slide show I'm glad they included evangelina and chummy, but none of Jenny, Cynthia or Sr Bernadette/Shelagh in habit?

I’ve just rewatched and baby Babs wasn’t announced as a girl - must have been one of the other babies! However, it was definitely “here’s your prize” so they never said it was a boy either.

And her pregnancy and awful mother etc. Because the programme is called Call the Midwife!

It’s what happens when the cosy “Sunday night slot” dramas need to be spun out. Heartbeat (there’s one for us middle aged types) did the same; Forgot it was about policemen and kept dragging the doctor-wife (and then the teacher-wife) into things. It opens up the plot possibilities, I suppose.

DH and I tried to make a start on this last night, having not seen any of it since Series 1 (which we liked well enough)and I have to say the acting is incredibly wooden too now. I couldn’t figure out why Stephen M hasn’t been sacked, until I realised who he was married to

I definitely hear “here’s your prize” every time I watch that scene and I do think that’s what she says.

I have watched it with subtitles though and they do say “here he is”. I honestly think it’s a subtitling error as the baby was clearly always going to be called Barbara. In Phylilis’s accent I suspect they’d sound very similar.

As for the teal, al lot of it is actually blue. You only need to look at photographs of the midwife uniforms to see the real colour. They’ve adjusted the colour balance to match 60’s photographs/films.

To be fair, Dr T being accepting of the gay man isn’t new. In series 4 there was a younger gay man who was arrested and he defended him in court, and to Shelagh. He said he’d met many gay men during the war.

Could be Soup I watch with subtitles as I'm deaf.

However I do think the "he" if they did say he, would be a generic he instead of confirming it as a boy. Like how we say there is Mr Sheep etc

Squarecomers - there was a pic that showed Cynthia and Jenny etc in their nurses uniforms, definitely. I haven't watched it back but they were def in the montage. (back of Cynthia's head though).

Soup - I dont't think they've adjusted the colour balance (if you mean the colour technicians of the program in the final cut type thing) as everyone's skin and hair looks a normal colour.

I think Costume made the actual uniforms out of teal-blue coloured fabric, even though uniforms weren't teal toned then of course, but it helps lend the program the vintage look. If they'd made it out of the nurses traditional mid blue, no teal in sight, it would look more modern/current.

Also, snow in Autumn? (trees leaves were just starting to turn brown but nowhere close to falling). OK I'm picking but there was no need for snow machine.

There was a lot of time hopping - that awkward bit with Tom delivering Barbara's cases, with excitable bad driver nun whose name I can never remember saying "it's only been two weeks" and then Tom went away to see his parents "for a while" etc. I think the snow starting to fall was meant to indicate the passage of time.

In the CofE you are first ordained deacon then later priest (and eventually bishop if you keep going). Curate is a job within a parish. I think you'd often take a curacy after being ordained deacon, but then be ordained priest and stay in post as curate until your own parish comes up.

I was chortling when they delivered four babies in five minutes, because of our remarks last week and as though their birth ratio for the series was down so they sorted it out at the last minute.

I think Costume made the actual uniforms out of teal-blue coloured fabric

Then they made a separate set of uniforms in blue for publicity photos.

Everything has the hue of a 60s photograph or cine film though.

Phyllis definitely said “here’s your prize” and I’m reasonably she followed it up with “you have a baby girl”.
That's what I heard too.

They always finish each year in November at the earliest, once or twice they strayed into December. They never set out to do one year per series but the introduction of the Christmas special meant they got stuck in that rut.

squarecorners your parents’ story fascinated me! It was the Turnadette story that really drew me into CTM. also I’m Catholic and although these nuns are Anglican we have a big nun culture!

Soup- they didn’t. In the earlier series with Jenny the uniform were pale blue. Now they are teal blue. On the publicity photo too.

Also, snow in Autumn? (trees leaves were just starting to turn brown but nowhere close to falling). OK I'm picking but there was no need for snow machine

As Kennedy was assassinated on 22nd November, snow seems reasonable to me.

I got confused by the snow as well, I thought it was blossom or similar falling from the trees eventually. That doesn't work from a time of year perspective either though.

The daughter going from being disgusted by her father to completely accepting was ridiculous! ! Much more likely she would have refused to see him for a long time, years probably!

These unfeasibly quick turn-rounds happen all the time in CTM. Look at the one a couple of weeks ago where the first wife turned right round within around 10 minutes to accepting the husband's second wife and helping her with the baby; and the one where the mother was absolutely disgusted at the concept of her daughter learning about periods, only to change her mind instantly after a quick word from one of the midwives.. Clearly the atmosphere around Nonnatus House instantly turns everyone into super-tolerant 21st century thinkers.

Not teal.

In the earlier series with Jenny the uniform were pale blue.

They were also a completely different uniform.

I'm glad Trixie isn't in it at the moment. I find her voice incredibly irritating.