Series 5
(2016)
Overview
In season five, Sister Monica Joan goes missing at Christmas time leaving the nuns and nurses distraught. Shelagh rushes to put together a children’s choir in time for a BBC broadcast from the church. Elsewhere Trixie, having battled through her issues with alcohol, finds a new purpose in her keep fit classes. And could friendship blossom into something more for vicar Tom Hereward and Barbara?
Cast
as Jennifer Worth (voice)
as Trixie Franklin
as Sister Julienne
as Sister Monica Joan
as Phyllis Crane
as Sister Evangelina
as Shelagh 'Sister Bernadette' Turner
as Fred Burkle
as Patsy Mount
as Sister Winifred
as Delia Busby
as Tom Hereward
as Sister Mary Cynthia
as Patrick Turner
Episodes
Episode 1 8.0
January 17, 2016
When a baby is born with severe deformities of the kind later identified as caused by the drug thalidomide, the midwive…
Episode 2 6.7
January 24, 2016
Barbara treats a pregnant woman whose dockworker husband is struggling to support her as opportunities for work dry up.…
Episode 3 6.7
January 31, 2016
A outbreak of typhoid erupts, and suspicion over who the carrier could be threatens to break apart a closely knit famil…
Episode 4 6.7
February 7, 2016
Sister Julienne is seconded to a maternity ward, and is impressed by how modern technology is being used to help the mo…
Episode 5 8.0
February 14, 2016
Turner and Shelagh are at the forefront of the advances in medical technology, and begin a campaign to ensure better re…
Episode 6 7.3
February 21, 2016
Poplar is rocked by a series of violent attacks on women, and a prostitute is too ashamed to report what she knows - bu…
Episode 7 8.3
February 28, 2016
The introduction of the contraceptive pill is welcomed by Dr Turner, but some of his colleagues are less keen on the id…
Episode 8 8.0
March 6, 2016
Dr Turner is horrified to realise he may be partly to blame as the cause of the recent rise in birth deformities comes …