TV-MASeason 9
In 1950's London, they delivered hope for all.
Synopsis
Call the Midwife (2012), Season 9 — the BBC midwife drama, eight episodes you can watch online on iFILM. By the mid-1960s Poplar is testing Nonnatus House all over again.
The season opens hard: a diphtheria outbreak Dr Turner and Nurse Crane have to contain, and an abandoned baby Fred pulls from a dustbin, with the team racing to find its mother. From there it stacks up the cases nobody else wants — a pregnant sex worker, a diabetic recovering from cancer, a blind mother whose own sister calls Social Services on her. Shelagh fields an alarming call from the Hong Kong adoption agency about someone from May's past. And the real threat is the building itself: the council moves to cut Nonnatus funding, and Sister Julienne decides to fight back.
Creator Heidi Thomas keeps grounding the stories in the decade's actual medicine rather than manufactured tension. Season 9 runs darker than what came before — the question isn't only who the nurses can save, but whether Nonnatus survives. Stream Call the Midwife Season 9 online on iFILM.
8 episodes
S9·E1Episode 1
Dr Turner and Nurse Crane must deal with an alarming outbreak of diphtheria. Fred finds an abandoned baby in a dustbin, and the team must help locate its mother.
S9·E2Episode 2
Sister Julienne cares for a pregnant prostitute, while Dr Turner puzzles over a mysterious string of symptoms.
S9·E3Episode 3
Lucille is seconded to St Cuthbert's when a ward sister is off sick, but a lift malfunction sees her spend the evening with mother-to- be Connie instead of her planned rendezvous with Cyril.
S9·E4Episode 4
Sister Julienne volunteers to put up four trainee doctors at Nonnatus House while they undertake the practical aspect of their obstetrics diploma, hoping the exercise will remind the council how vital the home is to the community and help remove the threat of demolition.
S9·E5Episode 5
Sister Frances is at a loss when she cares for diabetic and recovering cancer patient Albert Calthorpe whose fiercely independent wife Grace refuses to accept further help, despite caring for her husband, her elderly mother and her pregnant daughter.
S9·E6Episode 6
At the Turners, Shelagh receives a phone call from the Hong Kong adoption agency, which has the alarming news that someone from May's past has arrived in the UK and wants to see the little girl.
S9·E7Episode 7
Trixie helps a blind mother, Marion, care for her new baby, but trouble starts when Marion’s sister calls Social Services to intervene.
S9·E8Episode 8
Sister Julienne decides it is time to take matters in hand when a letter arrives from the council saying that it will cut funding to Nonnatus House and no longer pay for the accommodation, and goes to see Violet at one of her open sessions as a local councillor.
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