Call the Midwife (series)

Call the Midwife is a BBC period drama created by Heidi Thomas, adapted from the autobiographical novel of the same name by Jennifer Worth. It has several connections with the Doctor Who universe.

Crossovers
The cast appeared of this show in a comedy sketch for 2013's Comic Relief which combined elements of the series with that of the Channel 4 documentary series One Born Every Minute. It also featured Matt Smith in an appearance as the Eleventh Doctor. The cast also appeared in It's Showtime a few months before. Jenny Agutter later played her character in Looking for Pudsey.

References to the DWU in Call the Midwife
The series, set in the 1960s, featured a direct reference to Doctor Who in episode 3 of the eighth series, where the nurses sit down to watch an episode of The Aztecs, with a character explaining that "the Doctor's assistant has been mistaken for an Aztec god", and another in episode 8 of the eleventh series, where Angela, May and Timothy sit down to watch a Doctor Who episode, although only the opening titles can be seen. However, as the episode is set in the late 1960s, one can infer that it is a Patrick Troughton episode that they are watching.

Cast and crew connections
A number of cast members have also appeared in Doctor Who productions individually, most notably Jessica Raine who portrayed Emma Grayling in the Series 7 episode Hide (also directed by Call the Midwife director Jamie Payne). Fenella Woolgar appeared as Agatha Christie in the Series 4 episode The Unicorn and the Wasp. Pam Ferris voiced Lizzie Corrigan in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story The Eternal Summer and Amanda Steele in Night of the Vashta Nerada. Jenny Agutter portrayed Professor Cantha in the Minister of Chance series of audio dramas, a spin-off of the 2001-2002 Doctor Who webcast Death Comes to Time, and Sekhmet in The Bride of Peladon. Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison also played a guest role in Call the Midwife's Season 10 holiday special.

Similarly there are also a number of other actors who have guest starred in both series, as well as crew members who have worked on both.

Leslie Grantham was the father of Daniel Laurie, who plays Reggie in Call the Midwife.