List of Call the Midwife episodes
Series 7 (2018)

List of Call the Midwife episodes

Section Title: Series 7 (2018)
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No. overall	Episode	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)

Special

52	Christmas special	Syd Macartney	Heidi Thomas	25 December 2017	9.57

The exceptionally harsh winter of 1962–63 causes disruption for the residents of Poplar. Valerie seeks to reassure an unmarried expectant mother that her partner, who is not the father, will be able to love the baby as his own.

Series

53	Episode 1	Syd Macartney	Heidi Thomas	21 January 2018	9.09

With Barbara away and Patsy and Delia having also departed, young Jamaican midwife Lucille Anderson (Leonie Elliott) joins the staff at Nonnatus House.

54	Episode 2	Claire Winyard	Louise Ironside	28 January 2018	8.81

Lucille experiences bigotry because of her West Indian background, and when a young woman unexpectedly suffers a stroke shortly after giving birth, her domineering mother blames Lucille.

55	Episode 3	Claire Winyard	Kelly Jones	4 February 2018	9.39

An expectant mother is diagnosed with the degenerative neurological disorder Huntington's disease, and quickly deteriorates to the point where she is unable to look after her children.

56	Episode 4	Rebecca Johnson	Lauren Klee & Heidi Thomas	11 February 2018	9.57

A Pakistani woman is aghast to find that, during a return to Pakistan, her husband has taken a second wife, a teenager who is now expecting a baby.

57	Episode 5	Rebecca Johnson	Helen Blakeman	18 February 2018	9.33

Rumours that a newly arrived sailor from Nigeria is suffering from smallpox cause panic in the community, and he hides away in fear and shame.

58	Episode 6	Emma Sullivan	Louise Ironside	25 February 2018	9.33

An Irish family with two children and a third on the way arrive in Poplar to take over the newsagent's shop, but the husband is killed in a car crash.

59	Episode 7	Syd Macartney	Andrea Gibb	4 March 2018	9.57

Barbara's condition is diagnosed as meningococcal septicemia. At first she seems to be making a recovery, but she subsequently begins to deteriorate and dies, leaving everyone devastated.

60	Episode 8	Syd Macartney	Heidi Thomas	11 March 2018	8.99

The staff all find the aftermath of Barbara's funeral hard to handle, and Valerie tries to aid a grieving Tom by organising Barbara's things to give away.

Sentence(s)

The Christmas special was the first episode of series seven of Call the Midwife aired in 2017.

final_sentence: The Christmas special was the first episode of series seven of Call the Midwife aired in 2017.