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Call the Midwife Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
9 Episodes 2017 - 2018
Episode 0
Christmas Special 2017
Mon, Dec 25, 201779 mins
Christmas 1962 sees an unprecedently heavy snow fall and a burst pipe in the community hall requires the clinic to be held in a local pub as well as cancelling the pantomime. Valerie trawls through the drifts to the caravan where pregnant Linda is staying with the adoring Selwyn, who knows he is not her baby's father, for a potentially upsetting early birth whilst Sister Julienne hears a shocking story of domestic abuse when she visits the wife of a hypothermia victim. Come the New Year the pantomime goes ahead and Phyllis gets the better of an officious policeman but Tom is faced with a difficult decision.
Episode 1
Episode #7.1
Sun, Mar 25, 201859 mins
As the bitter winter continues new midwife Lucille Anderson, delayed by bad weather, eventually arrives in the middle of a power cut. She is Jamaican, prompting the other nurses to fear she may experience racism. Phyllis more concerned for elderly Ruth Gelin, dying of cancer but refusing to leave her soon-to-be demolished house and has to win over Sergeant Woolf to grant Ruth's wish. Meanwhile Lucille, though unwell, more than proves her worth helping Trixie deliver single mother Nadine's baby whilst Barbara helps Nadine plan for the future for herself and her child.
Episode 2
Episode #7.2
Sun, Mar 25, 201858 mins
Lucille delivers hair-dresser Marjory Chivvers' baby but faces racist prejudice from Marjory's mother Mae, who blames Lucille when her daughter has a stroke. However Lucille stands her ground, encouraging Marjory's weak husband Dennis to defy Mae and take charge of his wife's recovery. The Turners welcome their super efficient au pair, Hungarian Magda, who certainly impresses Timothy, whilst Sister Winifred persuades a football-mad husband that being at his child's birth is more important than his game with more success than Trixie's dinner party for Christopher.
Episode 3
Episode #7.3
Sun, Apr 1, 201858 mins
Trixie is concerned for Doreen Lunt, living in squalor with her ragged children and beleaguered husband Gordon. She learns that the depressed mother fears she will be locked up as mentally ill, like her father who died in an asylum but Dr Turner makes another, more disturbing, diagnosis. Whilst Fred organizes a beauty contest Trixie must make a hard decision regarding herself and Christopher and Magda puts herself in danger after making a frightening discovery.
Episode 4
Episode #7.4
Sun, Apr 8, 201858 mins
Married to Saddiq Gani in Pakistan and now pregnant at 15, Parveen's case perturbs the midwives on the discovery of his previous marriage to older cousin Mumtaz. Mumtaz is exceptionally bitter and Sister Julienne discovers why, ultimately reconciling the two wives. Meanwhile, Sister Monica Joan's failing eye-sight and refusal to have her cataracts removed causes concern, requiring gentle persuasion from handy-man Fred. Recovering alcoholic Trixie, drinking again after her break-up with Christopher, also comes to a decision.
Episode 5
Episode #7.5
Sun, Apr 15, 201858 mins
Having stowed away on a ship from Nigeria Ade Babayaro is thrown out of the seaman's mission on suspicion of having smallpox. Reggie finds his hiding place and tells Phyllis, who must find him before panic takes hold of the area. Lucille and Shelagh have to persuade Eunice Dobson, who is determined not to have her baby after a difficult first birth, to change her mind before they can join the others on a picnic outing, where they encounter two familiar returning faces.
Episode 6
Episode #7.6
Sun, Apr 22, 201858 mins
Pearl and Terry Davidson arrive from Northern Ireland with their two small children to open a newsagents but Terry dies in a car crash, leaving the pregnant Pearl to run the shop alone. When further disaster strikes Fred and Barbara lead the community in rallying round Pearl's family. Valerie and Lucille run into trouble when a possessive mother complains about their sexual health classes for young girls. Valerie discovers her reasons, providing a reunion whilst Sister Monica Joan, in hospital for her eye operation, ultimately befriends a raucous fellow patient. Meanwhile illness hits another of the nurses.
Episode 7
Episode #7.7
Sun, Apr 29, 201858 mins
Barbara is kept in isolation with Meningitis whilst Lucille, taking on her patients, makes new friends with a fellow Jamaican couple. Dr Turner, attending a scabies outbreak at a boys' remand home, takes pity on the bullied Michael Sumpter, whose wife Alison is pregnant. He determines to help the youngster at court, battling the authorities and Alison's prejudiced mother, whilst Alison has need of Shelagh's professional skills.
Episode 8
Episode #7.8
Sun, May 6, 201859 mins
As a grieving Tom considers his future Sister Monica Joan wanders into a cinema, meeting projectionist Stanley Hodgkiss. His daughter Olive, separated from her husband, is heavily pregnant but is annoyed that her father is more concerned for his old friend Donald, a dementia sufferer. With the local maternity hospital closed down the midwives are under extra pressure and Phyllis crosses swords with cheeky teenager Josie Winterlee but is there for her when it counts. As with Olive and Stanley a new arrival brings reconciliation and the staff assemble for the memorable occasion that is Sister Monica Joan's birthday.
