How many episodes are in Call the Midwife?

Call the Midwife has 8 episodes in this listed season.

When does Call the Midwife premiere?

Call the Midwife premieres on 2026-01-11.

Is Call the Midwife a new series?

Call the Midwife is a returning series (Season 15).

Call the Midwife(2012)

Also known as Call the Midwife – Ruf des Lebens • SOS sages-femmes • L'amore e la vita - Call the Midwife

Archived · BBC One

TV-PG8 eps

S15

DramaMedical

ON AIR: JAN 11Season 15Archived listing

What to Expect

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Call the Midwife is a period medical drama built around the rhythms of birth, loss, and daily care in the poverty-stricken East End of London across the 1950s and into the 1960s. Each episode carries its own human weight, but the storytelling is cumulative; small griefs and quiet victories accrue across seasons in ways that feel genuinely earned rather than manufactured.

The East End itself is not just backdrop. Cramped tenements, limited resources, and the specific hardships of working-class life in postwar Britain shape every medical decision and every relationship on screen. The drama rarely reaches for plot mechanics to generate urgency; the stakes come from poverty, medical limitation, and the ordinary fragility of life, which turns out to be more than enough.

Best for

working-class london, period medical drama and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Medical

Commitment

Season 15 · 8 episodes

Where

BBC One

Official Premise

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s & decades following. Based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

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Why this pick

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