WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Call the Midwife season 8 and season 9 that may influence your enjoyment in discovering the plotlines. Read at your own risk.
The set is once again bustling on Call the Midwife season 9. The cast and crew have returned to film the upcoming installment, which will consist of the usual eight episodes.
According to The Sun, Call the Midwife season 9 is targeted for a January 2020 release. BBC, however, has yet to confirm the exact date to kick-off the weekly airing.
Call the Midwife season 9 will open with the funeral rites for Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which happened in 1965. Meanwhile, things at the Nonnatus House will be quite different as a "bold and innovative" era begins, as per the press release.
The time period will see a progressive but complex shift. The team of nurses, nuns, medics and doctors in Call the Midwife season 9 will be dealing with both old and new diseases like diphtheria, cancer, fistula, tuberculosis and drug abuse.
Details to the characters on Call the Midwife season 9 are still scarce but creator Heidi Thomas said that the fan favorites are going to survive the end of this installment. Nurse Trixie (played by Helen George), in particular, will be learning and scaling new opportunities. Will she become a doctor or a deserving hospital administrator?
Nurse Lucille (played by Leonie Elliot), on the other hand, will settle with her suitor Cyril (played by Zephryn Taitte). But with society changing, it's interesting to see how this couple navigates the times.
Nurse Valerie (played by Jennifer Dryer) will still be reeling from her traumatic experiences in Call the Midwife season 8, when she found out that her aunt was actually the backstreet abortionist who posed a danger for women and their babies. The Turner family's fate, on the other hand, will seem to turn around in general as Timothy (played by Max MacMillan) has a long and hard look at his future.
But before Call the Midwife season 9 airs, fans of the series will get to watch the cast embarking on a medical mission in a Scottish island in its special Christmas episode at the end of the year. It will be a different environment in Outer Hebrides since there are limited resources and access to electricity and water.
Call the Midwife airs on BBC in the U.K. After its run, the show will air in the U.S. via PBS. The series is also available on Netflix.
