Call The Midwife Christmas Special

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Anyone watching? Apologies if I’ve missed the thread.

What manuscript? The link doesn't work.

I think I missed Phyllis and Millicent. They're the two best characters atm and they were conspicuous by their absence.

I agree. And the bit where Shelagh mimics Millicent to Dr. T's amusement really irritated the hell out of me. That was borderline nasty, in my opinion.

I had to turn it off, such a fan but think it’s becoming a bit of a caricature of itself and formulaic . Dr Turner’s acting seems to get worse, one would have thought with all the practice he would have actually settled into the character by now. Trixie’s acting is terribly wooden also, no real depth.

Ah, sorry - manuscript for the final book.

I hadn’t picked up on what you and the other posted had noticed about her scenes. I shall be very upset if she’s not keeping well. I love Linda Basset and have done ever since I first saw East is East. The bit at the end where she offers a cup of tea and her husband says ‘a half cup’. That’s me and my husband. In fact I cried so much at this episode of CTM there were just so many triggers for me.

Ive watched every single one and started watching the Christmas one today and it was so sugery my teeth nearly fell out. I turned it off after 15 mins.

There have been a lot of shark-jumping moments, but the light shining on Trixie's face during the nativity was several sharks being jumped. I was actually laughing out loud at that part.

I then went back and watched the wedding episode. Again Sister MJ causing all sorts of bother, and Dr. Turner and his trusty sidekick wife stopping to save a baby on the way. And then the whole community being able to put on a street festival at a moment's notice to save Trixie's wedding.

The tableau was absolute nonsense.

I do totally agree about the nauseating nature of Dr Turner, for several series now, but on one small point… Midwives really don’t do forceps deliveries, so would always call a doctor.

Didn't they say Mary and Joseph were the newest married couple?

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Wash your mouth out!

I agree regarding doctors doing forceps deliveries. There is so much venom against all things Turner on MN, that even when they get things factually correct for the time the show is set in, there is always a chorus to complain about DrT. Likewise male consultants were overbearing and, in some cases downright nasty, but that is the reality of the times.

I wondered if Linda Bassett was off filming something else and had to have her scenes filmed separately. The refresher course was a condition of her being permitted to continue nursing when the horrible man from the Board of Health questioned her working past normal retirement age, so it did fit with what had occurred in last series. Georgie Glen has also appeared in a few other TV roles in the past few years so that might be why she wasn't very prominent in the Christmas special.

@Elderflower14

Thanks for that link
Just downloaded it with a Credit on Audible

She was in The Lonely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry.
What a depressing film that was!!!?

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011, Suzannah Worth discovered amongst her manuscripts a folder simply labelled 'Fifth Book'. Imagine her excitement when she sat down to read and her mother's distinctive voice came flooding back. She found herself once again immersed in the world of the 1950s East End of London. The voices of much loved, familiar characters spoke loud and clear, particularly that of Fred the boiler man, who features extensively in this joyful collection.
From Fred and Maisie's romance, to Fred's little earners including boat tours on the Thames, a fledgling singing career and raising pigs on the allotment, these new stories are as heart-warming and funny as the originals.
Published here for the first time and accompanied by a selection of Suzannah's favourite chapters from the original memoirs, featuring Chummy and Sister Monica Joan, this is a very special addition to the Call the Midwife family.
Here we go!!! ^^^^

I read the Harold Fry book and that put me off even considering the film version.

I liked the book but it did read like it was being written to be made into a film starring Jim Broadbent.

I was cross at "Free School Lunches" WTF!!!!! it was always "School Dinners" all the way. Totally wrong to refer to school dinners as lunches.

I've always known them as "free school meals". And they are eaten at lunch time! Although I would call a hot meal at school "school dinner"
There's no logic!

Am I having a Mandela moment or does anyone else remember last season being told the next would "take us into the 1970s" and I am sure they have already done the moon landings onscreen???

They did a woman astronaut going into space. (when Sr. MJ needed eye surgery). Is that what you remember?

This was set in 1968 (which was also the year I caught Hong Kong Flu on New Year's eve).

So the next series will start in 1969, the year of the first Moon Landing and also, incidentally, the year I started my nurse training!

In the US, it's been "school lunches" since forever. Maybe they used that term instead of "school dinners" so that American audiences would not think that UK school children were having their evening meal at school.

So the next series will start in 1969

And as each season covers a year - with the Xmas special being set at Xmas - it will take us up to the brink of 1970, if not quite into it.

So agree. It's become a bit like east Enders although I like it.