Talk:List of Call the Midwife episodes

Episode titles

The article says that the episode titles are unofficial, but doean't give any other information about where they are from. Did a wikipedian just make them up? Pedgeth (talk) 16:19, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

I came here to ask the same question. Their use seems to be widespread, but it's impossible to say now whether these are simply picking up on their use here. They do not appear on the sites of the BBC, the Radio Times, or Neal Street Productions, and they are not being used on the 1st series DVD, or the BBC iPlayer. The fact that they only appear to have been added (here and on the main CtM page) after the episodes screened also rings alarm bells - critically, at this precise moment, Google returns no hits except for this page for "Temptation and Sacrifice" as the supposed title of the episode of 17 February. I am therefore going to delete them until someone can come up with an official source that endorses them. Nick Cooper (talk) 10:45, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Copyvio

Have started work at /Temp on a new version with re-written episode summaries...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:45, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, ChrisTheDude. Unfortunately, however, the way you've gone about it is not really OK, as you've copied the problem text to the new page. Please take a look Wikipedia:Copyright problems#Rewriting content, and specifically where it says: "Please do not copy over the version of the article that is a copyright problem as your base". Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:18, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Humblest apologies Justlettersandnumbers, I missed that. I have removed altogether all the episode summaries which are copyvio and will re-write them over from scratch the next day or two....... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:51, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

All copyvio content has now been removed. @Justlettersandnumbers: -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:37, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Series 4 episode length, UK vs US

PBS-WGBH started broadcasting Series 4 on 29mar15. They put it in an unusual 70-min slot and included 58min of actual show content. If the original UK shows are nominally 60min, then it appears this would be a fairly complete presentation of the full content of the first UK episodes. However, they are doing most of the repeat broadcasts in a standard 60-min slot and cutting the show content down to 53min, which is more typical. What is the actual length of the original UK episodes? It looks like WGBH will be putting at least the next episode in a extra-length slot (65 min) so there appears to be an intention to broadcast a fairly full version of this series.-71.174.183.177 (talk) 14:32, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

In the UK the show is broadcast in a 60-minute slot and has no ads, so factoring in time for continuity announcements/trailers at the start/end, 58 minutes of actual show sounds plausible -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:02, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

All 8 Series 4 episodes were broadcast "complete" by WGBH in 2015 with 58min of core show content, in an unusual super-sized time slot of 65min (or 70min for the first and last eps). However, many of the repeats during the week were crammed into a standard one-hour broadcast slot, so the show content was cut by 5min to 53min, to allow for the standard pre- and post-show previews and blurbage.-71.174.188.32 (talk) 18:35, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

episode historic dates

Does each episode have an associated date when it supposedly took place? Please add more of this info to the article.-71.174.190.52 (talk) 20:44, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

In a nutshell, no, other than vague timeframes like "soon after Easter" or "in the summer" or things like that..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:39, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

guest stars

It would be helpful and interesting to see some episode-specific guest stars listed. For example, Tommy Mills played by David Ryall in episode 407.-96.233.20.34 (talk) 02:53, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

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