Chummy’s husband has appeared throughout the season. She’s serving at a maternity home for unwed mothers, I believe.
In the sexual assault episode, one scene was in the Noakes apartment at night. He said Chummy was out at a drawing lesson. (Maybe, like Trixie, she’s really at AA?)
The Call the Midwife folks put a post on Facebook a month or so again announcing Chummy will be back in 2017.
I wonder if I like the show so much because they are now in the period where I was a baby myself. The baby buggy at the end was the exact kind my sister, 3 years younger, had. I remember accidentally on purpose knocking it over with her in it.
I remember being a very young child and reading about the thalidomide tragedy in either Look or Life magazine and just being horrified at it.
Great season! Sorry it ended so quickly.
Great review in the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/arts/television/call-the-midwife-deserves-more-respect-for-its-depth-and-daring.html?_r=0
What a wonderful review, thanks for posting it, Barbalot.
I have loved this program from the very first episode. The acting/writing is first rate and the episodes are very true to the Tim period.
Can’t wait for the next season to start
I’m trying to figure out why the actress who played Sister Evangelina, Pam Ferris, wanted to leave the show, but didn’t come up with anything by Googling. Or was this just a plot device?
Everything I read said it was her decision to leave.
I read that Pam Ferris liked her costume for this show because it was so comfortable to wear. Made me chuckle since so much of women’s clothing is uncomfortable.
I cry every time one of those babies pops out. I can’t help it.
One way or another, CTM benefits enormously from not being made in the USA. I don’t think any US production crew could put live babies that small on camera. (I’m assuming that many of them are, indeed, live babies, and not clever special effects or dolls. They sure LOOK like live babies!) It’s child labor at its ugliest or cutest, depending on how you look at it. Another way in which global free trade costs Americans jobs and lowers worldwide labor standards!
I honestly did not know there were Anglican nuns! LOL.
Many are live babies, @JHS! It’s amazing.
I especially love all the disclaimers that PBS airs before each broadcast. The HORRORS of childbirth, LOL.
^@VaBluebird I am right there with you…Very embarrassed to admit I had no idea there were nuns outside of the Catholic Church… :">
I was born in 1960 and my sister in 1961 so it’s been fascinating to me to observe the world as it was when I was so young. Even though I was born in the midwest I remember things like the baby buggies being very similar to the one my mother had for us. And the clothes that were worn…in the last episode Nurse Crane was wearing a hat almost exactly like the one my grandmother wore to church.
Even though there is sadness I find Call the Midwife to be very soothing is some ways, partly the music and Vanessa Regrave’s narration. I find I am really attracted to and appreciate good historical drama these days.
From what I understand, it is rare for a TV series in England to run longer than 3 years. Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife are exceptions, and I think that’s why some of the actors leave after the initial 3 year contract is up. Jessica Raines (Jenny, the former star of the show) left then, as did O’Brien and Matthew Crawley on DA.
We are lucky we got Sister Evangelina for as long as we did! 
PS I think this is a show that has improved with age—I agree with the NYT writer that at first I found it a bit corny, but they really do not shy away from difficult issues and they handle them so well.
Did anyone else notice that Dr Turner was smoking again in the finale? Hard to blame the poor man after getting that letter though.
. I really enjoy the characters played by Stephen McGann (the doctor) and Jenny Agutter (head sister) Love their seemingly real struggles with science and faith. AND I just find it cathartic to have a good cry every Sunday night. I will really miss it.
Did anyone else notice that Dr Turner was smoking again in the finale?>>>>>>>
Yes!
I like how the show has gone from being about the experiences of one nurse to a more ensemble. I think that has improved it.
Really, the nurses aren’t Catholic?
No, they’re Anglicans, @deb922. The Anglican Church has priests and nuns, the former of whom (unlike their RC counterparts) can marry.
There’s another terrific British show, “Home Fires,” that debuted last season and aired on PBS, that includes a noble village doctor who smokes (played by Tom Stoppard’s son, Ed) who has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. I predict a similar demise for Dr. Turner. 
I remember our family doctor, who still made house calls in the sixties, always having a big fat stogie when we’d meet with him in his office.
Have just watched a few episodes last night. It is very well done and doesn’t shirk a lot of challenges faced by the families and providers ( which sadly persist). I will try to see more of it.