Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife was a television show that, according to the Twelfth Doctor, was "about babies and bicycles". (PROSE: The Blood Cell)

Graham O'Brien claimed he watched every single episode of the show. However he had to look away at the parts he deemed squeamish. (TV: The Tsuranga Conundrum)

Behind the scenes
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. 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.

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. Jenny Agutter and Pam Ferris have also voiced characters for Doctor Who audio dramas, with Agutter also portraying 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. 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.

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.