Trixie Returns in Time for 'Call the Midwife's Supersized Christmas Special

It's Christmas time in Poplar in 1969 when Call the Midwife returns for the annual Christmas special — and this year, we've got a double helping! The nuns and medical staff of Nonnatus House are preparing for the holiday season while also helping out the hospital, which is short-staffed due to a Hong Kong Flu outbreak*. It's all hands on deck as more and more people are getting sick, but luckily, it seems the Nonnatus midwives had a mild bout of the spreading flu shortly before the holidays went into full swing.

(*Yes, we are side-eyeing the name.)

Keeping everyone germ-free is difficult when the fun fair rolls into town, bringing everyone out to play. Several fun scenes and even a love connection blossom at the fair as everyone takes turns on the Ferris Wheel and eats candied apples. Trixie (Helen George) also returns for the fun! While everyone is trying to have a good time, news breaks that a handful of felons have broken out of the nearby prison. Two head to town and rob Fred's (Cliff Parisi) shop; one is arrested when they attempt to hold up a post office, but the meeker of the two makes his way to his mum's flat, only to find out she's passed away from the flu.