‘Call the Midwife’ Returns! Season 14 Premiere Date, Schedule, Everything We Know So Far

Call the Midwife Season 14 finally has a release date. The beloved PBS series will return to screens in March following the 2024 holiday special this past Christmas.

PBS reveals that Season 14 will feature an apparent immaculate conception, a gas explosion, a patient in an iron lung, a strike, and more. Here, we’ve compiled all the latest updates on Call the Midwife‘s upcoming season so you can stay informed about the show’s return, from the trailer and episode descriptions/schedule to plot changes and more. Stay tuned to TV Insider as we continue to report the latest updates.

When does Call the Midwife Season 14 premiere?

Call the Midwife Season 14 will premiere on Sunday, March 30 at 8/7c on PBS (check local listings). The season will air episodes weekly through May 11.

Previous seasons have debuted on BBC in January in the U.K. (where the seasons air first before they come to PBS), with PBS premieres in the US typically scheduled for a few months later.

What happens in Call the Midwife Season 14?

The new season is set in a new decade. Here’s the official logline: “Season 14 of Call the Midwife begins in 1970, marking a new decade in Poplar. As chaos unfolds when activists on the Isle of Dogs block access in their bid for independence, Dr. Turner and the midwives must work to keep things running as usual. Meanwhile, the Nonnatus House will continue to tackle social challenges like poor housing, poverty, and various health issues, including a puzzling case of apparent immaculate conception.”

Is there a trailer for Call the Midwife Season 14?

Yes! Check out the trailer in the video above.

When are new episodes of Call the Midwife?

Season 14 will air uninterrupted every Sunday on PBS starting on March 30. Here’s the release schedule and episode description for all six episodes:

Episode 1: Sunday, March 30, 8/7c

An apparent immaculate conception causes consternation at Nonnatus House.

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Episode 2: Sunday, April 6, 8/7c

Trixie cares for a single mother recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital.

Episode 3: Sunday, April 13, 8/7c

Rosalind delivers a baby with a suspicious spinal lesion. A sudden gas explosion shocks all.

Episode 4: Sunday, April 20, 8/7c

The sisters welcome a new postulant, Sister Catherine, to Nonnatus House.

Episode 5: Sunday, April 27, 8/7c

The Nonnatus team oversee the care of a man living inside an iron lung.

Episode 6: Sunday, May 4, 8/7c

A dustbin strike creates a refuse site outside Nonnatus House. Joyce handles a rude patient.

How will Call the Midwife Season 14 look different?

Call the Midwife Season 14 Episode 1 (BBC Studios)

The Call the Midwife Instagram page is a great resource for behind-the-scenes details on upcoming episodes. In a post shared on September 22, the series shared details about the drama’s new look in Season 14.

Call the Midwife Season 1 was set in post-World War II England in the 1950s. The 1970s-set 14th season will show a completely changed landscape that required the production to film in new locations. The look is going “from brick to concrete,” as the caption shares.

“As our team race through filming for Series 14, they have had reasons to leave the film studio, and head for locations in the sprawling London metropolis. This isn’t something new for us — although it’s often been tricky for us to achieve,” the post reads. “As you might imagine, not much of the old Poplar remains — being transformed by post-war town planning and urban slum clearance. Locations have had to be carefully chosen, and allowances made for the busy traffic and noise of the capital! For that reason, we usually film our exterior shots in the familiar, age-appropriate, and more congenial surroundings of the Historic Dockyard in Chatham, Kent.”

It continues: “As the years roll by, however, our needs have begun to change. Series 14 is now in 1970 — a time when much of the old brick terraces of Poplar had already disappeared — to be replaced by imposing concrete high-rise flats and rapid road building. It was now the height of urban post-war modernism — yet our nurses and midwives were still tasked with their traditional role of care in the community. Their task of navigating warrens of grimy victorian slums had been replaced by the need to visit mothers on high floors — whether the lifts were working or not!”

The photo in the post shows Rebecca Gethings as Sister Veronica riding a moped scooter.

 

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“This photo taken from a location in London perfectly illustrates the changing look of Call the Midwife through the years. Rebecca Gethings (Sister Veronica) is filming a scene on her rounds in the district — but the landscape now is very different from the Blitz-damaged landscape that we first saw in Series 1,” the caption says. “Yet we think the most important aspect of the picture is not the background, but Rebecca herself. She is wearing the same Nonnatus habit our sisters have always worn. She is performing the same duty of care to her mothers that we saw in Series 1. While the landscape changes — and even the mode of transport changes! — the work of the Nonnatus House sisters does not. A mother will always need her midwife — no matter how high she may now live, or how many stairs there may be to reach her.”

Who is in the Call the Midwife Season 14 cast?

Jennifer Agutter, Judy Parfitt, Laura Main, Linda Bassett, Helen George, Stephen McGann, Cliff Parisi, Zephryn Taitte, Daniel Laurie, Renee Bailey, Megan Cusack, will all be back in Season 14, among others, as production photos and videos have shown. It seems that Olly Rix will not be back as Trixie’s (George) husband, Matthew Aylward, as George herself recently revealed that Trixie is coming back in Season 14 without a husband.

Trixie considered leaving Poplar to be with Matthew in New York at the end of Season 13, but she’s making a return next season. “It’s bigger than ever and I guess it’s quite a return for Trixie because she’s coming back sans husband, so that’s an interesting twist,” George told Virgin Radio.

“It’s really nice being back with the girls and being back with the ladies at Nonnatus House,” George added. “Trixie has been brought back into the fold, which is really fun and where she kind of sits best, I think.”

Call the Midwife, Season 14 Premiere, Sunday, March 30, 8/7c, PBS (check local listings)

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