Pinballing between a surfeit of storylines was not the most relaxing hour of television. There was a young family chucked onto the streets by bailiffs, a patient with infected episiotomy stitches, a pregnant fairground worker, two escaped prisoners, the discovery of the body of a lonely old woman, and Reggie Jackson (Daniel Laurie) going missing on his way back from Sussex. And that’s before we got to a mince pie competition, the Turner children collecting for a Blue Peter appeal, an outbreak of Hong Kong flu, Trixie’s return from New York, and a budding romance between Nurse Corrigan (Megan Cusack) and a pharmaceuticals salesman. And a partridge in a pear tree.
Cliff Parisi as Fred Buckle (Photo: Olly Courtney/BBC/Neal Street Productions)For Reggie, who has Down’s syndrome and is now in residential care, home meant Poplar, Fred Buckle (Cliff Parisi) arranging to meet him off his bus. However, the escaped prisoners led to police road blocks which in turn led to Fred missing Reggie’s bus.
Jenny Agutter as Sister Juliene (Photo: Olly Courtney/BBC/Neal Street Productions)
The usual round of labour and childbirth was as unblinkingly realistic as ever – the cast of newborns (apparently acquired through a talent agency) having only recently themselves been delivered. And of course there was our familiar cast of nuns, sensible and reassuring as ever. Pondering the lonely death of the old woman, Nurse Crane (the splendid Lina Bassett) asked: “What does life amount to when there’s no love at the end of it?” TV dramas don’t often go in for moral or philosophical questions like this. Call the Midwife asks them on a regular basis.
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Read MoreCall the Midwife is still a long way from becoming a soap, or even a sort of period drama version of Casualty. But this first of two over-stuffed Christmas episodes, the second of which will air on Boxing Day, finished with what you could call a classic soap cliffhanger. Fred, having failed to meet Reggie’s bus, discovered a deserted bus station with Reggie’s bag forgotten beneath a bench. Reggie himself was meanwhile seen forlornly wandering the streets. If the drumbeat intro of the EastEnders theme tune had followed, we might have been forgiven for not batting an eyelid.
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