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Post by MS on Jun 11, 2014 18:35:02 GMT -5
Season 3, Episode 8:
Season 3 finale.
Sad that Chummy loses her mother while Shelagh and Dr Turner get good news as they get to adopt a baby girl.
This demonstrates the cycle of life as one life ends, another begins.
This was Jessica Raine’s final episode as Jenny with the death of Chummy’s mother leading her to resign from Nonnatus House to become a Marie Curie nurse.
As older Jenny explains in her narration that as her story has ended the story of her friends continues hence why there is still going to be a season 4 without Jenny.
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Post by MS on Sept 8, 2014 20:02:18 GMT -5
Clare Cathcart has passed away.
Born on October 3 1965, Clare Cathcart appeared in the season 3 opener of Call The Midwife playing Mrs Torpy.
Her other roles included Father Ted, Coronation Street, The Strangerers, Afterlife, Come Fly with Me, Doctors.
She died on September 4 2014 at the age of 48.
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Post by MS on Oct 29, 2014 1:53:41 GMT -5
Call The Midwife is included in the following Original British Drama trailer narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch. A clip of a new episode of Call The Midwife can be viewed by clicking on the play button when Call The Midwife comes up in this trailer: bbc.wirewax.com/originalbritishdrama |
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Post by MS on Nov 4, 2014 19:05:30 GMT -5
Even before the 2014 Christmas Special and season 4 in 2015, Call The Midwife has been renewed for a fifth season to be aired in 2016 in addition to the 2015 Christmas Special.
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Post by MS on Nov 15, 2014 19:04:00 GMT -5
Warren Clarke has passed away.
Born Alan James Clarke on April 26 1947, Warren Clarke had appeared in Call The Midwife 2.7 playing John Lacey.
His other work included The Avengers, Coronation Street, Callan, A Clockwork Orange, S.O.S. Titanic, Top Secret!, Blackadder & Bleak House (2005).
He died on November 12 2014 at the age of 67.
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Post by MS on Dec 4, 2014 20:46:11 GMT -5
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Post by MS on Dec 13, 2014 17:47:44 GMT -5
BBC First will fasttrack the 2014 Call The Midwife Christmas Special on Boxing Night 8:30pm.
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Post by MS on Dec 29, 2014 16:08:33 GMT -5
2014 Christmas Special:
Although Jessica Raine (Jenny) has already left the series, Jenny still appears here, presumably for the last time, as we see instead Vanessa Redgrave finally on-screen as mature Jenny.
Jessica Raine still appears as young Jenny through pictures in mature Jenny’s home.
Coincidentally at the same time this was shown on BBC First , Jessica Raine was seen on the ABC in a rerun of An Adventure of Space and Time in which she played first Doctor Who producer Verity Lambert.
Not bad as it looked back to what happened to the other midwives sometime after Jenny left them including the appalling conditions at the home for expectant mothers before it was taken over by Chummy and Patsy.
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Post by MS on Jan 18, 2015 16:21:34 GMT -5
BBC First fasttracks Call The Midwife season 4 from tomorrow Tuesday January 20 8:30pm.
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Post by MS on Jan 23, 2015 18:02:28 GMT -5
Season 4, Episode 1:
Season 4 opener.
Debut of Charlotte Ritchie as nurse Barbara Gilbert and what a delightful addition she is.
Although Jessica Raine has already left the series, Vanessa Redgrave still narrates as mature Jenny. I mean if this is being told from Jenny’s perspective shouldn’t it be from where she went to after leaving Nonnatus House. I mean she can hardly have a perspective on events that she wasn’t a witness to.
What a horrible state that the children was found in and quite sadly to learn from mature Jenny that they didn’t have a happy ending when they left the UK to go to Australia but as she says it was hope that made them happy for a while.
I can’t imagine my own personal life experiences as bad as what those children went through but I do know about hope keeping me happy even if it did not deliver me a desired outcome in my life.
Charlotte Ritchie was interviewed in the Sydney Sunday Telegraph tv guide for its The Last Word feature.
She says in preparing for the series she watched a birth for research and that “watching some random woman having a baby…was the strangest Sunday night”.
She also says how she was quickly welcomed by her castmates Helen George (Trixie) and Emerald Fennell (Patsy) especially since Jessica Raine had been such an integral part of the series.
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Post by MS on Feb 2, 2015 21:39:39 GMT -5
Season 4, Episode 2:
Another new nurse Phyllis Crane comes to Nonnatus House and she is not exactly chummy to look at.
Sister Julienne has a reunion with someone from her past and it is revealed that she did not meet up with him at a certain meeting when she got her calling to be a nun. This meeting got rectified here.
I am understand the feeling that Sister Julienne was going through here as I had missed out on having coffee with an old schoolfriend something that I will always regret. I am still hoping to have that coffee one day.
Sad about the stillborn baby.
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Post by MS on Feb 17, 2015 5:32:56 GMT -5
Season 4, Episode 5:
Harrowing seeing Dr Turner, when he made a mistake with a diagnosis of a baby, beating himself over it.
Nice to see Cynthia now Sister Mary Cynthia returning to Nonnatus House.
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Post by MS on Mar 3, 2015 0:53:48 GMT -5
Season 4, Episode 6:
Antepenultimate episode of season 4.
Guest stars Maria Doyle Kennedy as an expectant mother who ultimately gives birth to a baby. Coincidentally a few days before seeing this episode saw her in new movie Jupiter Ascending in which she also gives birth to a baby, in that case the movie title character, in that movie.
I have seen Maria Doyle Kennedy in another BBC series Orphan Black but the one BBC series I like to see her in one day is Doctor Who.
Did not like the other storyline about the pregnant diabetic young woman.
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Post by MS on Mar 10, 2015 1:09:26 GMT -5
Season 4, Episode 7:
Penultimate episode of season 4.
Guest starred Lisa Greenwood, David Ryall and Una Stubbs.
Ryall actually died on Christmas 2014 just over two months before this episode aired on March 1 2015 and this episode is dedicated to his memory.
Two pregnant old schoolfriends (one of which played by Lisa Greenwood) are reunited just as they are about to give birth to their babies but these old schoolfriends have drifted apart and it is very sad when that happens.
The situation was made worse when their babies were accidentally switched. Thankfully this was detected quite early when the babies were still newly born instead of many years later in which emotional issues would complicate matters.
Unfortunately baby switches can still occur in today’s world and I can only hope that such switches are forever prevented in future but I can’t say with any confidence that such a prevention is a 100% guarantee.
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Post by MS on Mar 16, 2015 22:34:22 GMT -5
Season 4, Episode 8:
Season 4 finale.
Absolutely sad the tragedy that struck Delia which damaged her brain making her difficult to remember Patsy.
Absolutely impressive with what Trixie said at the support group in a line that was superbly delivered by Helen George as Trixie.
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