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In case anyone is interested, "Call the Midwife" is on the longlist for Returning Drama at the national television awards. Both Zephryn Taite and Judy Parfit are up for Best Drama Performance. Voting ends June 2 at 11 p.m. BST. You can vote in as many categories as you like, but only one contender per category and once per email address.

https://www.nationaltvawards.com/voting is open If you're interested, the show is up for best serial drama. The actors who play Amy, Alya, Daisy, Evelyn, Paul and Ryan are all up for best serial drama performance. The actress who plays Dee Dee is up for rising star. Voting ends June 2 11 p.m. BST. You can vote in as many categories as you want, but only for one contender per category and only once per email address.

Actually, every CTM wedding has had its share of disasters. It's not like every other wedding went off without some kind of hitch. I also saw on other forums complaints about not seeing Matthew and Trixie take their vows. Only Cyril and Lucille were ever shown doing that. For most of the other weddings, we only saw the bride and groom leaving the church or on the way to the reception or we saw the bride entering the church and going up to the altar where her groom and the priest are waiting.

I think Shelagh will also be teaching and possibly Sr. Veronica. Regarding Nancy and Colette, I can also see a scenario where she takes the job and then discovers that it ends up that she has less time to spend with Colette than she had before.

The wedding was on the other side of London, so it's possible the weather was different in the East End. Regarding Matthew buying Nonnatus House, I thought that Sr. Julienne devised a plan to restart the student nurse program, and she asked Cyril and Matthew to help. Once Cyril said the building was structurally sound, she asked Matthew to buy it When Trixie said it was her last night as a bachelor girl, Geoffrey said that some of us stay true to that calling all our lives.

Or when Phyllis was talking to Sr. Julienne. she could have said something about how when someone leaves, you always say you're going to keep in touch, but after a while, everyone moves on.

Trixie mentioned a brother who dropped her into a rock pool thus beginning her lifelong fear of fish. I don't remember which episode that was, but it was fairly early in the show's run. The actor who played Geoffrey is married to an actress who appeared in a season 6 episode. She was the posh lady who was going to adopt her poor cousin's baby. It was also the episode Tom revealed he had been adopted as a baby. Olly Rix said he wanted it to be as much of a real wedding as possible, so he did not see the dress until Trixie was at the church.

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No, Cyril, with Lucille's agreement, used part of their savings to buy his plane ticket to Jamaica. The Buckles arranged for the phone call to Lucille in Episode 5.

I think if they do get divorced, it will be portrayed as something that is very difficult for both of them. And if they do get divorced, I can definitely see Cyril having a crisis of faith and deciding he is no longer fit to be the pastor of his church.

I would love to see her come back so they can have a resolution of their marriage. Divorce? Legal separation? Could there be a new love interest for Cyril towards the end of the season?

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I was wondering about the James Earl Jones reference. I know he was well-known in theatrical circles and did some television, but would he have been someone that would have been thought of for movies in the early 1960s?

Scenes they cut out: They cut a scene of Trixie on the phone talking to Nigel who is telling her about Heather being in labor. She says Heather isn't on their books, but that she will be there right away. They cut a scene right before Heather gives birth of Sr. Veronica at the Buckle's shop asking Violet if she can have her slot at the surgery Thursday night. Violet says no because it's important for her constituents to speak to her. Sr. Veronica says that they (the people taking part in the clinic) are also her constituents, and it's a council initiative. Violet says they can have the slot after hers which belongs to the Spanish dancing teacher who is on holiday. She also says she will see that Fred takes part with his paper boys. Sr. Veronica says "paper boys?" and looks rather concerned. They cut a scene right after Dr. Turner and Nurse Crane are telling Heather they have to notify her parents about the baby. Violet is in Cyril and Lucille's flat and he tells her that his stitches have been removed, and the nurse says he is doing well. He and Lucille have decided that it will be a good use of their savings for him to buy a ticket to Jamaica; he has holiday and sick leave so it will be two weeks. She asks when is he going. He says Nurse Crane is driving him to the airport in the morning. Violet says that she can't think of anything better than for him to be in the sun with the person he loves and for them to sort out any problems. They cut out part of the scene with everyone having a meal at Nonnatus House. Right after Sr. Monica Joan says her heart always falls at the sight of sliced spam, Nancy says Colette loves it and that she tried spam fritters last week; she hands the plate to Matthew. He says it's new for him too but you should try things once; he thanks Nancy. Sr. Monica Joan sweetly admonishes him that gratitude should wait until after partaking. Sure enough, he takes a bite and it's clear he doesn't like it. Trixie smiles as he drinks some water. Phyllis then enters and says she has just taken Cyril to Heathrow. Sr. Julienne says she hopes the trip is beneficial and that they see them both very soon. They cut part of the scene at the clinic. Dr. Turner is examining a young black boy who has a rash on his throat which he says he's had since halfway through the holidays. Dr. Turner weighs him and says he is very underweight. He asks how often he eats. He cheerfully answers he tries to eat at least once a day. Dr. Turner gives him medicine for his rash and informs him Sr. Veronica can tell him about free school dinners. They cut to the beginning of the scene where Patrick tells Shelagh that Joey has leukemia. Angela, May, and Teddy all have wet heads wrapped in towels as if they'd all had their hair washed. Shelagh says in a very chirpy voice, "Less than a week back and you've all got nits. That must be a record." The children giggle. Dr. Turner, who has been on the phone, asks her to turn off the television, and she sends the children upstairs with a warning not to touch their hair. They all groan.

There's a character on Coronation Street who is going through menopause even though she is only 21.

Dr. Turner is about a decade or older than Shelagh. In real life, I think they have a 19-year age gap.

Matthew trained as a medic during his national service. In the Season 11 finale, after he tells Lucille that he thinks one of the patients that were brought to Nonnatus House from the train crash may have a compound fracture, she asks him if he has medical training. He answers yes, from my national service.

When I originally watched this, I noticed they had changed the credits in the beginning. Nothing major, but Georgie Glen is now bracketed with Annabel Apsion, Megan Cusack, and Rebecca Gethings. Daniel Laurie has been bracketed with Zephryn Taite and Olly Rix. That made me think Lucille was out. BTW, if you're wondering where you saw Matthew's father before, he played the Vicar on "Downton Abbey." I wonder where Matthew did his national service. Christopher did his in Korea. Tom did his in Kinloss.

I think Sr. Veronica's point was that as a single mother, she would be getting help from the "welfare state." The problem would be that she would have to live alone with little Mylene Florence and she didn't want to do that.

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Did anyone else catch the anachronism in the Clark Gable joke? Although it was revealed much later that Loretta Young's "adopted" daughter Judy Lewis was in fact her child with Clark Gable, it was not known by the general public. TBF, it was kind of an open secret in Hollywood. At the time of his death, Clark Gable's widow was pregnant with his son, but he had no publicly acknowledged children.

I think it may be more that Nancy kept talking about how they were going to get their own place, but Colette wasn't seeing a whole lot of proof that Nancy was actually doing anything to make that happen. Now that she has that postal book, Colette can see how her mother is doing. Don't forget that Colette's teacher said she had a head for figures, so she may have already been figuring things out regarding Nancy's finances.

Yeah, I think you have a good point there, but those storylines happened in the show's early seasons. I think they've stopped doing that in the later seasons.

In the books, they say no one ever knew quite what to do with her since it was hard to tell if her behavior was part of her illness or if she was just having a laugh. Apparently, in real life, she was kind of a nasty snobbish bitch and her special target was Sr. Evangelina. She was extremely well-read and had a classical education which she had no problem showing off especially if she made a fool out of Sr. Evangelina who usually had no idea what was going on. I think her characterization now is that while she can no longer function as a nurse or midwife, she can still be helpful by doing simple tasks like providing comfort to scared patients or kind of babysitting the children in the clinic. She's kind of a geriatric candystriper. I do think they have written in her physical limitations especially since she has an assistant listed in the credits. I'm thinking now that the plotline where she broke her leg was because she was having trouble walking and they needed to show why she needed a cane I never saw this thing where one minute she's intellectually challenged and the next she is a genius. I think it's more that sometimes she's spoiled and willful and the people around her kind of indulge her in that. I think she uses that to get her own way.

I watched the show when it aired originally, and I'm not sure anyone would have asked a person with Down Syndrome for permission to do anything. If someone were reasonably high functioning like Reggie, maybe they would explain what they were doing, but that's about it. I also wonder if Daniel Laurie might have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism and they decided to write it into the show.