Episode 7
Season 1, Episode 7
Christmas at Nonnatus House finds the nurses and nuns caring for an abandoned newborn and searching for the mother; Jenny trying to locate an elderly homeless woman's children; and the newly married Chummy planning a nativity play.
read more
Episode 6
Season 1, Episode 6
In the Season 1 finale, Sister Monica Joan develops pneumonia and is later accused of theft, with the real possibility that she could be sentenced to jail causing much concern within the Nonnatus House community. In other events, Chummy's mother visits in order to meet her new beau.
read more
Episode 5
Season 1, Episode 5
Jenny helps the nuns care for Peggy's brother Frank, who's dying of cancer. Meanwhile, the other residents try to help with his latest money-making scheme: raising a pig named Evie for bacon.
read more
Episode 4
Season 1, Episode 4
The community joins together in the search for a baby girl who was snatched from her baby carriage. Cynthia, meanwhile, cares for a young wife and soon-to-be mother who's developed eclampsia.
read more
Episode 3
Season 1, Episode 3
Jenny befriends an old soldier while serving on the district nursing roster. Trixie and Cynthia, meanwhile, treat a middle-aged woman who thought her childbearing years were behind her.
read more
Episode 2
Season 1, Episode 2
New arrival Chummy is welcomed by Jenny, but she gets off on the wrong foot with Sister Evangelina due to her inability to ride a bike and her overwhelming desire to please. In other events, Jenny meets a pregnant young runaway.
read more
Episode 1
Season 1, Episode 1
The drama about a young midwife in 1950s-era East London opens with Jenny Lee's arrival at Nonnatus House, a convent of nursing nuns that's a far cry from the private hospital she expected. Her first case: caring for a woman who's on her 25th pregnancy.
read more