'Call The Midwife's 2024 Holiday Special Trailer Says Farewell to the 1960s

There are very few things one can count on in the television landscape, especially when it comes to British TV. There will always eventually be a new season of Doctor Who, for example (even if it takes a decade or two). The BBC will ask if you have a television license and never check if you have one, is another. However, since 2012, we can always depend on Call The Midwife debuting a Christmas special every season, followed by the new season starting just after the new year.

The series, initially set in 1957 when it launched over a decade ago, probably hoped to run at least a few years when it debuted. No one, least of all the cast, would have expected it to continue on for over a decade, leading the series to cross not only into the 1960s but then right back out again as the 1970s loom large at the beginning of Season 15. The Christmas special, the series' first two-hour supersized edition, will arrive on the holiday, debuting with both episodes on the BBC and PBS on Wednesday, December 25, 2024, and celebrate the show's covering an entire decade.

Season 14 will follow on the BBC starting Sunday, January 5, 2025, and arrive sometime in mid-to-late March on PBS. (It may come earlier than that for PBS Passport members, but that's not confirmed yet.) However, until then, let's get into the spirit of the season as the old year dies and babies are born.