Call the midwife part 2

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I know that my first thread isn't full yet. I just wanted to create the second thread before i forgot.

I saw something in the Times yesterday suggesting that there might be a break after next year's series. The article also mentioned a possible prequel. I wonder if they have been reading here?

I was 15 in 1970 and some of my teachers at school spoke like that.

@fatfreefatball - thank you! I'd googled vision on as I thought it was that but it wasn't the opening, I didn't realise they had different opening and closing themes. Loved that programme - and looking back very forward thinking to have a mainstream programme with signing as a natural part of it.

I still love CTM but I do feel the storylines are more and more about the staff rather than the patients. I think that started once the books finished.
A lot of the episodes feel very rushed, everything gets wrapped up quickly.
Still enjoy watching but definitely not as good as it used to be.

So we might just see the early 70s (and the prequel) then.

I suppose at some point they have to be realistic, On reflection Nonnatus house probably didn’t exist in the 80s.

They left in 1976. I think the series should reflect this.

I think the series should at least make it to 1973.
According to the character histories Sister Monica Joan was born in 1873. We need that nun to get to 100 ! I want to see a 100th birthday party for her.
Heidi Thomas.....if you're reading this and you only plan one more series can we have a slight time jump of a couple of years so we see her birthday. Please 🥹

was not the best episode.
why would Trixie ditch her friends wedding like that. where was the grooms family?
how did nancy give birth and get married so quickly?
why did she have the awful turner girls and collete go in first. surely back then bridesmaids followed the bride.
the child giving birth was horrid.

I loved it and was glad Trixie wasn't in it making it all about her.

Yes I thought the same about the bridesmaids, I'm a 1980's child but only ever remember them coming behind the bride back then

It's amazing how the power of prayer has completely cleared up her dementia though isn't it?

I'm glad Sister Monica Joan has been so likeable in this series after being annoyingly selfish and awkward and always having some sort of crisis in the last.

I was a bridesmaid in 1968 and 1970.
We followed the Bride.

Amazing how Dr Turner predicted that he'd be needed with the forceps at the Mother House when the girl's waters just broke.
Surely there were closer GPs that would have been more appropriate?
At least he got saddled with giving a lift to a carful of nuns (inc a surprisingly quiet sr MJ).
Why did the girls from the M&B home all go to Nonnatus then get cabs elsewhere? I thought they'd found space for everyone in Nonnatus but suddenly everyone was off again.
Has Nancy figured out what's causing these children? She seemed unaware of midwifery despite hanging out with midwives and having given birth once already.

I'm not an expert on weddings but the 1970s was a time of breaking and re-making rules. My own first wedding in 1975 was very alternative.

Where was Nancy's baby at the wedding, it seemed to disappear fairly sharpish once it was born.

Didn't it turn out Sister Monica Joan never had dementia - it was all an urine infection?

She was still in the incubator.
They went and saw the baby in-between the service and the reception.

She didn't just 'hang out' with the mid wives she was one!

I thought she was a community nurse, not a midwife.

She was one of the cohort of trainees iirc. Amazing how Colette has grown, wasn't she about five when introduced, now 11?

I think that's her new job that she moved for.
She was a midwife while in Poplar.

A 5 year infection? I’m sure she was less with it in the first 5 series.

I have a feeling Sister Monica Joan liked to act more helpless than she actually was.
She's a bit of a naughty nun.

pretty sure they were different religions and she already had two children! just.
so a registry office would make sense.

and the new nun's very obviously gay sister.