A flu epidemic complicates the holidays in Poplar as medical staff in addition to residents are felled by the illness, while a prisoner escape frightens the community.
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'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 8
Daniel HautzingerPoplar is hosting a "Mother of the Year" competition, with plenty of candidates, from Shelagh to Violet to someone reunited with an adopted-away son to less obvious choices.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 7
Daniel HautzingerSomeone from Joyce's past resurfaces, threatening her new life, while Trixie and Matthew face a rocky future and Rosalind helps a young woman with a horrible secret.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 6
Daniel HautzingerMatthew finally reveals his financial woes to Trixie, right as she was expecting some big lifestyle changes. The other midwives try to help a recently arrived mother and two boys found in a church.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 5
Daniel HautzingerA young couple underestimates their ability to be responsible parents, but they are put to the test by a medical issue in both their daughters. The Turners face their own trouble with one of their children.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 4
Daniel HautzingerA distraction at home leads Trixie to rush while working with a patient with the pupil midwife Joyce, while other midwives help a Nigerian family with tuberculosis.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 3
Daniel HautzingerViolet is running for mayor with the support of her family and friends, but a medical emergency threatens to derail her life first.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 2
Daniel HautzingerCyril and the midwives help a woman whose husband has left her with one child and another on the way and whose government housing is infected with mold.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Episode 1
Daniel HautzingerA new set of midwife pupils arrives in Poplar and one of them is immediately thrust into danger, while the other midwives aid a mother with cerebral palsy.
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 13 Holiday Special
Daniel HautzingerThe midwives and their friends all pitch in to recreate a cherished Christmas from the depressed Sister Monica Joan's childhood, while also delivering babies and helping an isolated loner.