‘Call the Midwife’ Christmas Special 2025: When It Airs, How to Watch, and More
The midwives are getting ready to celebrate an extra-special Christmas – but they won’t all be doing it in Poplar! This year, PBS continues its Christmas tradition of airing a new Call the Midwife holiday special on December 25. We have everything you need to know about 2025’s festive episode, including the surprising (and sunny) location where it will take place.
How to watch the 2025 ‘Call the Midwife’ holiday special on PBS
The 2025 Call the Midwife holiday special will premiere on Christmas Day, December 25, 2025, on PBS at 8 p.m. ET. (Check local listings.) Like last year, the special will be split into two, one-hour parts – a full 30 minutes longer than the previous 90-minute holiday specials.
If you miss the broadcast, don’t fret. The Call the Midwife 2025 holiday special will be available to stream for free until January 24, 2026, at the Call the Midwife Official Site or with the PBS App on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android phones, iPhones, iPads, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast, and Android TV.
In addition, you can watch the 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021 holiday specials for free on the Call the Midwife Official Site or with the PBS App until January 20, 2026.
What to expect from the ‘Call the Midwife’ Christmas episode
This year’s Christmas special will see some of the show’s characters traveling abroad for the holidays.
“Senior members of the convent embark on a mercy mission, swapping the snowy East End of London for the sun-drenched terrain of Hong Kong,” according to PBS’s synopsis. “The rise in hospital births, and wider changes in the NHS, have clipped their wings. But their mission to the Far East is a chance to take flight and work out what really matters. For her part, Sister Julienne suddenly finds herself excited about the Order’s future. After years of battling change, she decides to embrace it and see what love can do.”
The two-part special is “completely new territory,” Laura Main, who plays Shelagh Turner, teased to Radio Times earlier this year.
“It is full of nostalgia for those 1970s Christmases, but it has got a lovely, diverse ring to it,” creator Heidi Thomas added. “Literally, we also cover Hanukkah, we celebrate the Jewish feast of lights, and there’s the whole Chinese, Hong Kong dimension. So it feels very, very rich.”
“It’s very much like a melting pot of communities, it’s not just about one community,” she continued. “It’s about people coming together in the depths of winter and creating something bright out of the darkness, which is just lovely.”
When does ‘Call the Midwife’ Season 15 premiere?
In addition to the holiday special, fans can also look forward to Call the Midwife Season 15, which premieres Sunday, March 22, 2026 on PBS.
In addition to airing on your local PBS station, each new episode will also be available to stream for free from the day they broadcast until June 9, 2026.
Want early access to the new season? PBS Passport members will be able to stream each episode four weeks ahead of the scheduled broadcast date, starting February 20.
Need to catch up on previous seasons of Call the Midwife? Seasons 1-14 are streaming on Netflix.
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