Season 1

Series 1

Season 1

Series 1

Air date:2012-01-15
User score:
7.3
Number of episodes:6

In season one we are introduced to the local community through the eyes of young nurse Jenny Lee as she lives and works as a midwife alongside the Nuns of the Order of St. Raymond of Nonnatus in the deprived Poplar district of London's desperately poor East End in the 1950s.

List of Episodes

S1E1

6.7

Air date: 2012-01-15

Runtime: 52 min

Jenny Lee start her midwife career at Nonnatus House in London. She is surprised to find that it is a nursing convent and not a hospital. Her first case is a woman pregnant for the 25th time!

S1E2

7.4

Air date: 2012-01-22

Runtime: 52 min

A new girl arrives Nonnatus House and finds it hard to earn the respect of Sister Evangelina. Jenny sees an unfamiliar darker side of life following an encounter with a runaway.

S1E3

7.6

Air date: 2012-01-29

Runtime: 52 min

Jenny does some district nursing to extend her community practice experience and befriends an old soldier with awful leg ulcers. Trixie and Cynthia enrol Winnie Lawson as a new patient.

S1E4

7.2

Air date: 2012-02-05

Runtime: 52 min

A baby girl is snatched from her pram and the local community unites for the search. Cynthia sees another sort of loss as she tends to soon-to-be parents David and Margaret.

S1E5

6.8

Air date: 2012-02-12

Runtime: 52 min

When Peggy’s brother is diagnosed with cancer, Jenny and the nuns are called upon to care for him. Jenny gets to know the siblings better. The Nonnatus House residents get involved in Fred’s latest money-making scheme which involves a pig called Evie.

S1E6

7.8

Air date: 2012-02-19

Runtime: 52 min

When Chummy's imperious mother visits and disapproves of Peter Noakes, Chummy defies her mother and has her wedding on her own terms. Senile Sister Monica Joan is arrested for shoplifting.