Call the Midwife (series)
Call the Midwife is a BBC period drama created by Heidi Thomas, adapted from the autobiographical novel of the same name by Jennifer Worth. It has several connections with the Doctor Who universe.
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The cast appeared of this show in a comedy sketch for 2013's Comic Relief which combined elements of the series with that of the Channel 4 documentary series One Born Every Minute and Doctor Who.
The cast also appeared in It's Showtime a few months before.
Jenny Agutter later played Sister Julienne in Looking for Pudsey.
References to the DWU in Call the Midwife[[edit] | [edit source]]
The series, set in the 1960s, featured a direct reference to Doctor Who in episode three of the eighth series, where the nurses sit down to watch an episode of The Aztecs, with a character explaining that "the Doctor's assistant has been mistaken for an Aztec god", and another in episode eight of the eleventh series, where Angela, May and Timothy sit down to watch a Doctor Who episode, although only the opening titles can be seen. However, as the episode is set in the late 1960s, one can infer that it is a Patrick Troughton episode that they are watching.
References to Call the Midwife in the DWU[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Call the Midwife
Call the Midwife has been referenced several times in the DWU. Notably, the Thirteenth Doctor's companion Graham, in The Tsuranga Conundrum, states that he has watched every single episode of the show.
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Cast and crew connections[[edit] | [edit source]]
A number of cast and crew members who appeared in Call the Midwife have also contributed to Doctor Who and associated productions.
Jessica Raine, who portrayed Jenny Lee in the first three seasons of Call the Midwife, portrayed Emma Grayling in the Series 7 episode Hide (also directed by Call the Midwife director Jamie Payne).
Fenella Woolgar, who portrayed Sister Hilda in series 8 to 11 of Call the Midwife, appeared as Agatha Christie in the Series 4 episode The Unicorn and the Wasp.
Pam Ferris, who portrayed Sister Evangelina in Call the Midwife series 1 to 5, voiced Lizzie Corrigan in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story The Eternal Summer and Amanda Steele in Night of the Vashta Nerada.
Jenny Agutter, who portrayed Sister Julienne in Call the Midwife, reprised her role in the Children in Need story Looking for Pudsey and Comic Relief story One Born Every Minute, and additionally portrayed Professor Cantha in the Minister of Chance series of audio dramas, a spin-off of the 2001-2002 Doctor Who webcast Death Comes to Time, and Sekhmet in The Bride of Peladon.
Miranda Hart, who portrayed Camilla "Chummy" Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne (later Noakes) in Call the Midwife, reprised her role in One Born Every Minute and additionally portrayed fictionalised versions of herself in It's Showtime and 2023: The Eurovision Audition Tapes.
Cheryl Campbell, who portrayed Lady Browne in several episodes of Call the Midwife, portrayed Ocean Waters in The Sarah Jane Adventures television story The Vault of Secrets.
Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison played Mr Percival, a circus master, in the Call the Midwife Christmas Special 2020.
Leslie Grantham was the father of Daniel Laurie, who plays Reggie in Call the Midwife.
Similarly there are also a number of other actors[which?] who have guest starred in both series, as well as crew members who have worked on both.
