Call the Midwife

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Is back 18th April. I'm so glad we are getting a series this year, I find it such great escapism.

Is anyone else a fan?

Bringing a bit of the tropical to Poplar! It may yet come to that!

why did Tim have 4 results?
surely 3 would have been usual?

Maybe one was General Studies? We all did four at my private school in the 80s.

4 was standard back in my day in the 80s

Maybe tim would like to be an army doctor, to relive his scouting days but his polio will have left him with a weak chest.

@MedusasBadHairDay

I'd like to see them introduce a new doctor, just to break up Dr Turner somehow knowing the answer to all diseases no matter how rare. Was it the norm to only have one doctor at a surgery at that time? If so when do you start to see multiple gp's? Maybe a female doctor would be an interesting dynamic.

Single handed GP practices were common back then . Our GP worked out of a room in his home with his wife answering the phone.

My first 'family doctor' was the same, @2bazookas, in the 1960s. There was a little front parlour waiting room, and a small consulting room next to it.

Male doctor of course!

@Housewife2010

Maybe one was General Studies? We all did four at my private school in the 80s.

3 was normal when I did them in the early 70s. I'd never heard of General Studies at that time. Those wanting to go to Oxford or Cambridge did an extra year in the 6th Form. This was a highly selective Grammar school.

Our gp had a wife who was a lady gp! She was nice, he was a grumpy old tweedy man.
Nice wife took an overdose and died. It was a long time before I found out what happened to her.
I still think about her, every time I go to the doctor, she must have died about 1965

In my recollection, people who very STEM-oriented would have done four A Levels but most studying humanities subjects only did three unless super, super-bright (so the Oxbridge contingent). I don't recall 'General Studies' being a thing? But back then some of the most academically gifted did AS Levels (which were beyond A Levels) too?

I did 4 a levels including general studies and an S level which was an extra paper above A levels where you could get S1 or S2 results. This was a normal comprehensive school.

The sixties were a very different place, Not sure general studies was a subject back then. Hands up anyone who was at secondary/grammar school in the sixties!

General studies wasn’t even a thing at my college in the late 90s.

@BonnyandPoppy

I did 4 a levels including general studies and an S level which was an extra paper above A levels where you could get S1 or S2 results. This was a normal comprehensive school.

We're there comprehensive schools in 1966? There weren't in my area.

were

In the sixties there were secondary modern and grammar schools.

And in the 1960s there really wouldn't have been that many staying on into sixth form compared to nowadays - even from grammar schools quite a few would have left at 16.

Still leaving at 15.
In 1966, only 4% of school leavers went to university.

Didn't a young priest move in with the nuns a week or two ago? Did we see what became of him?

He seems to have disappeared again or was he not due to stay for long anyway?

He's disappeared....where did he go?
Where did Dr Turner get the skeleton?....

Pretty sure Timothy will be chomping at the bit to get to Uni...I mean anything is better than more years with Dr & Nurse Turnoff and the yay twins....oh and the wee lad, whose name I do not know or care to know...

He is Teddy Yay, brother to Mae Yay and Angela Yay.

I thought Timothy had been away at boarding school rather than at home at a grammar school.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

And in the 1960s there really wouldn't have been that many staying on into sixth form compared to nowadays - even from grammar schools quite a few would have left at 16.

Very few people left my Grammar school after O levels, the pupils likely to do that had probably all been weeded out beforehand. If your face didn't fit you would be asked to leave. I never heard of anyone leaving at 15 even though it was legal. I started in 1966 and left in 1973.

@Maireas

He's disappeared....where did he go? Where did Dr Turner get the skeleton?....

I think medical students all have one although nowadays they are plastic.