8.6/10335 votes#1 - Episode 1
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/2020
Dr Turner and Nurse Crane must deal with an alarming outbreak of diphtheria. Fred finds an abandoned baby in a dustbin, and the team must help locate its mother.
Director: Kate Cheeseman
Writer: Heidi Thomas
8.2/10313 votes#2 - Episode 2
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/2020
Sister Julienne cares for a pregnant prostitute, while Dr Turner puzzles over a mysterious string of symptoms.
Director: Kate Cheeseman
Writer: Debbie O'Malley
8.3/10303 votes#3 - Episode 3
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/2020
Lucille is seconded to St Cuthbert's when a ward sister is off sick, but a lift malfunction sees her spend the evening with mother-to- be Connie instead of her planned rendezvous with Cyril.
Director: David O'Neill
Writer: Helen Raynor
8.1/10309 votes#4 - Episode 4
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/2020
Sister Julienne volunteers to put up four trainee doctors at Nonnatus House while they undertake the practical aspect of their obstetrics diploma, hoping the exercise will remind the council how vital the home is to the community and help remove the threat of demolition.
Director: David O'Neill
Writer: Paul Walker
8.5/10315 votes#5 - Episode 5
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/2020
Sister Frances is at a loss when she cares for diabetic and recovering cancer patient Albert Calthorpe whose fiercely independent wife Grace refuses to accept further help, despite caring for her husband, her elderly mother and her pregnant daughter.
Director: Noreen Kershaw
Writer: Jonathan Harvey
8.7/10321 votes#6 - Episode 6
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/2020
At the Turners, Shelagh receives a phone call from the Hong Kong adoption agency, which has the alarming news that someone from May's past has arrived in the UK and wants to see the little girl.
Director: Noreen Kershaw
Writer: Carolyn Bonnyman
8.3/10298 votes#7 - Episode 7
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/2020
Trixie helps a blind mother, Marion, care for her new baby, but trouble starts when Marion’s sister calls Social Services to intervene.
Director: Sydney Macartney
Writer: Andrea Gibb
8.6/10315 votes#8 - Episode 8
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/2020
Sister Julienne decides it is time to take matters in hand when a letter arrives from the council saying that it will cut funding to Nonnatus House and no longer pay for the accommodation, and goes to see Violet at one of her open sessions as a local councillor.
Director: Sydney Macartney
Writer: Heidi Thomas
The Best Episodes of Call the Midwife Season 9
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Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs...
Genre:Drama
Season 9 Ratings Summary
"Episode 1" is the best rated episode of "Call the Midwife" season 9. It scored 8.6/10 based on 335 votes. Directed by Kate Cheeseman and written by Heidi Thomas, it aired on 1/5/2020. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Episode 2".