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Sr. Hilda was the one who asked Sr. Frances and Nancy to speak to the students although I'm sure Sr. Julienne knew about it. .

Scenes or parts of scenes they cut: At the end of the first Cyril and Lucille scene, he puts his hand on her waist and she gently scolds him, "Cyril, me have to go to work. Right before Sr. Hilda and Trixie talk outside, Nancy asks Sr. Hilda if it's okay if she delays the start of her midwifery rounds to which she answers "Ask and it shall be given unto you. "Seek and ye shall find." Nancy says she needs to get new plimsolls for Collette because she's outgrown hers and she needs them for school which starts tomorrow. Sr. Hilda observes "Ah, the first day of school!" "The joy never dims, nits by the end of the week and chicken pox within a fortnight." After that scene with Mr. Packer and Deborah, Trixie runs into Matthew at the Council Office. He asks her what she's doing there, and she replies she's there to get some help for that family she told him about. He asks if it's the fellow in the wheelchair. She says it's harder to get anything done from the District, but that she still plans to fight his corner. Matthew teases her, saying she's like the Little Red Hen: "I'll do it myself and so she did." Trixie answers, "Less of the little, thank you. I can be quite fierce if the need arises." Matthew, looking rather sheepish, answers "I know." Trixie giggles. Right before the scene with Sr. Hilda and the teacher, she says "Go ahead, thrill me. Is it nits or chickenpox this time?" At the end of the scene with Mrs. Heslop and Dr. Turner, he says she can have her baby at the Maternity Home provided no complications arise. Then he winks and smiles at her. After the scene with Shelagh, Miss Higgins and Tim, we return to Trixie at the Packer home. Mr. Packer is in his wheelchair and she's putting his feet onto the footrest. He's out of breath and she tells him that unless he works towards new goals, he is going to plateau. He says it's still better than being in hospital because he's with Glenda and the children. Trixie calls Glenda "a remarkable woman." Right after Phyllis tells everyone she won 5,000 pounds in the premium bonds, Nancy is with Sr. Frances and she tells her that if it were her, she'd be running 90 miles per hour to Carnaby Street. Then Sr. Frances shows her a poster board she made of the womb and tells Nancy that she made it so people in the back could see it. Nancy wonders if the Fallopian tubes looks out of whack, but they decide it looks like something a human being did and not something from a medical school covered in Latin phrases. Nancy says they should dress plainly and Sr. Frances looking down at her habit observes that she always dresses plainly as these are the only clothes she has. Nancy says it's too bad Sr. Frances can't come up on the Premium Bonds. Right after the scene with Sr. Julienne, Sr. Frances and Nancy, there's a scene of Cyril in the Buckles' shop asking Fred if any of his post has been sent there accidentally as he is expecting to hear about a job and the bill from his wedding suit and a card from Lucille's aunt had been sent there accidentally. Fred says no, but he will be upstairs with it should that happen. Right after the scene of Trixie at the Packers, there's a scene of Shelagh and Miss Higgins arguing because Shelagh wants Tim to take some jumble over to Nonatus House and Miss Higgins says he still has work to do for her. Patrick overhears them and tells Shelagh to come with him. Right after the scene with Sr. Hilda, Dr. Turner and Deborah, we see Deborah at Nonnatus House watching a children's show with Sr. Monica Joan, Sr. Frances and Nancy. Everyone is laughing, but Deborah, who is lying on the floor, is solemn. After the scene of Trixie and the WPC, Phyllis tells Lucille that Mrs. Heslop is in labor and that time it's not heartburn. Lucille says she likes Mrs. Heslop and her husband is sweet. Phyllis says to make sure Mr. Heslop doesn't get in the way and that men in a delivery room are like dogs in a cinema, something that she will never get used to. She then tells Lucille if it turns into a long haul to send for her. There's a scene with Lucille and Mrs. Heslop with Mrs. Heslop saying she wishes she hadn't been so hard on Terry since all he wants is to see the baby being born. Lucille tells her that she can't worry about him having a good time, that she has work to do, and so does Lucille. She calls it "her task and her privilege." She says that for the next few hours the only thing that matters are Mrs. Heslop and the baby she is giving birth to. Then she says she's going to take a chance to "spend a penny" herself.

In the finale of Series 10, Sister Hilda said that 11% of the babies in Poplar were born to unmarried mothers and that even during the war, it was 10%. That was part of the justification for keeping Nancy.

Trixie's father was a bank manager, so I think she was middle class. I don't get the impression she is supposed to have been poor or even working class.

There was quite a bit of outrage when the show aired in the UK because apparently leaving babies in their prams outside was a thing back then and no one would have thought there was anything wrong with it. Of course there's a difference between a mother putting her baby outside for some fresh air while she maybe does some housework or even just has some "me time" and a mother who does it because she has post partum depression.

I think that part of the problem was that Matthew was sort of judging Trixie by the kind of woman Fiona was. Fiona was perfectly happy to leave her job and become a SAHM and she loved having a man to take care of. Packing a picnic and spending time with her husband and their baby would have been right up her alley. That's not who Trixie is. I think she wanted to be courted and to be seen on her own terms. The scene where he comes to pick her up and he's just staring at her was probably the first time he's actually seen her. There were a few minor cuts I recall. In the very beginning, the nuns and midwives are complaining about the heat. Sister Monica Joan quotes something and Sister Frances asks her if it's from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" to which Sr. Monica Joan answers "Poor child, the heat must have addled thee." The scene where Lucille starts crying when she is with Phyllis started out with a bunch of people dressed in shorts and sandals. Phyllis doesn't like seeing all that pasty white flesh and says they should put it away. Then Lucille cries. There is a short scene of Sammy Rosen getting his X ray and looking very apprehensive.

I watched some of the Christopher episodes, and I had forgotten how much he was into fashion and beauty. Kind of like Mr. Scarisbrick. If they had remained a couple, I could see him hiring a hairdresser and a makeup artist to work on her when she in labor because "a woman should be at her loveliest at that time in her life."

What I meant was that Mo seemed to really believe in her so maybe he would have looked out for other opportunities for her if her singing career either never got off the ground or she had a few big hits and that was it.

The show mentions racism quite a bit especially with Cyril and Lucille and their inability to find a house and his inability to find a job as a civil engineer. There's one episode where he says that those things would be possible "in a just society" which indicates that he doesn't consider that they're currently living in one. Also, didn't Julie say that that the only thing her father left her was the color of her skin and she didn't say it as though she thought it was a good thing. Regarding Julie and her career as a pop singer, her manager really seemed to believe in her and her talent. Maybe he would be looking into other aspects of show business for her if the singing thing stopped being successful. Cilla Black is a good example of that. She became a television personality after her music career died down.

ITA about Matthew being a better fit for her than Christopher, but I think it's more that he's a better fit for who she is now. I think when she was with Christopher, she needed someone to be supportive and he was certainly that. Now she needs to be needed, and Matthew certainly has needed her.

Ignore the spoilers tag. For some reason, I can't delete the post and I can't delete the spoilers tags. I think Jennifer Worth was a midwife for a couple of years although I agree it was a very short part of her nursing career.

Apparently, it's true to what happened in the books. Sr Monica Joan could be lucid and making bon mots (usually at the expense of Sr. Evangelina) one moment and confused the next.

I noticed a couple of things they cut out although neither one really made much difference in terms of the show. In the scene where everyone is getting their assignments, Phyllis tells Nancy that she is going to be working with Sr. Frances at the Tuberculosis Hostel. Nancy objects saying she only does midwifery but she is told that was because she needed to improve her skills and now she needs to expand them (paraphrasing). Then Sr. Frances claps her hands with glee and excitedly tells Nancy that they can do the sputum tests. Trixie observes "See, Nancy, nothing but nonstop glamour." The second bit was after Sister Hilda objected to Shelagh being the one who is in charge of the celebration. Trixie tries to change the subject by asking what they think the Queen will be wearing on her tour to Canada. Someone points out that she always tries to wear colors that pertain to the country she is visiting. Nancy says she doesn't care much for her shoes and bags. Phyllis agrees, saying she remembers when the Queen could be seen wearing a peep toe. I've been watching reruns of "The Joey Bishop Show" and I think pretty much every man who wasn't bald or a kid with shaggy hair had the same hairstyle as the manager. I thought he was going to turn out to be a bad guy, but he was okay.

I've read three different versions of the episodes of "Call The Midwife" on NETFLIX. I have NETFLIX, but I don't watch the show there. One version is that they use the PBS edit. Another is they use the PBS edit, but then cut more scenes. The last is they cut scenes, but they are different cuts than PBS. I went back and re-watched the show about Trixie's friend who died after having an illegal abortion. She had two boys - one less than a year old - and she and her husband had just bought a house. They didn't want any more children and were using a Dutch cap for birth control. She told Trixie she didn't want to end up like her mother who had seven children in eleven years and had nervous breakdowns as a result; she said that she and her younger siblings had to go into foster care occasionally. Trixie was sympathetic but said women tend to cope in those situations. Jeannie later tried to get Dr. Turner to agree to recommend her for a termination on medical grounds, but he said he couldn't justify it. Later, when he spoke to her grieving husband, it sounded like he thought Dr. Turner was wrong. I don't think the problem was that abortion was illegal under any and all circumstances; it wasn't. It was more that rich women could get abortions in circumstances where poor women could not and have them done in clean, safe environments.

I think the thing with Trixie's friend was that they were a working class family that was getting ready to move up to middle class which an extra child was going to make impossible. BTW, if anyone has a VPN, the BBC has all the episodes of "Call the Midwife" available on IPlayer. I've been going back and watching a lot of the earlier episodes.

So far, whenever abortion is mentioned on the show, it's always in context of it being necessary and/or justified due to poverty, and/or other negative factors that would make it very difficult for the woman and/or her partner and/or family to have another child. However, pro choice is not the same thing. That's the idea that a woman should be able to have an abortion for any reason she chooses. How will the show handle that?

They had 3 actors quarantine together on "Coronation Street" when they were finishing up a storyline on coercive control and domestic abuse/violence. Jemma Redgrave and Nic Jackman who played mother and son on "Holby City" added each other to their social bubbles so they could do scenes where they touched and/or were very close together. I don't know of any, but I'm sure there are many other examples including actors involved in romantic storylines. I read that the entire cast of the latest "Downton Abbey" movie were quarantined together.

I noticed the actors playing the Flemings touched a lot so I wondered if they are a couple in real life. I know they can get around COVID protocols by having people quarantine or bubble together.

I didn't realize it at first, but the cop in that scene was the same one in the scene in Episode 1 where Matthew found the baby in the chimney.

We had the book in our school library so that's when I first read it. I think I was half way through before I realized it was the source material for "The Trouble With Angels."

He didn't make the main cast until the Season 1 Christmas episode. From what I understand, he was originally supposed to be a recurring character so that is probably why.

He's been a regular from his first episode. Oddly enough the only other male character with that distinction on the show is Fred Buckle (Cliff Parisi). Most of the other male regulars didn't get main cast status for several episodes; Reggie and Cyril were on the show for a few series before they made the main cast. Yes, I am that person who never misses the opening and/or closing credits of any movie or television show I'm watching.

"Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows" was the sequel to "The Trouble with Angels" which was based on the memoirs of Jane Trahey. She was the first woman ever to own and run an advertising agency; she was the one behind the "What becomes a legend most" ads for Blackgama. She was Rachel in the movie.

What I meant was that I don't think Matthew knew until the bag with the baby's remains were opened. I just remembered another scene they cut. Mrs. Nyall heard the Asian woman (not sure what her actual ethnicity was although I think she may have been Sylheti) crying out and she saw her husband out in the hall and she told him that he must hold her hands.

I don't think they knew that it was the remains of a dead baby in the chimney or else I'm sure the police would have been involved. Also, when Marigold spoke about how the babies never made a sound, I think it was one of those situations where if a professional had been there, he or she would have known what to do to possibly get the baby breathing. A couple scenes they cut: Sisters Frances and Monica Joan are checking out a booth with the Eurovision contest recordings and Sister Monica Joan says the songs are not jaunty or seasonal enough for her and that the tenor who is the Dutch contestant is not sincere. She says she is looking for the song about the travails of the marionette and when Sister Frances finds out, she calls Reggie over because he likes the song and they all dance around. The second one is after Nancy gets back from her first day as a working midwife. She has a tray of ice cream sodas for everyone although she says she knows it isn't hot. Nancy says when she was a little girl, there was a milk bar in Cork and she always wanted to go up to the counter and have an ice cream soda but the nuns were having none of it.