Call the Midwife - 'Episode 1'
British iTunes Chart Performance

"Episode 1": Chart Statistics

  • Release date: 15 Jan 2012
  • Chart debut: #90 (23 Jan 2012)
  • Highest Position: #4 (19 Apr 2021)
  • Most recent chart position: #35 (18 Feb 2024)
  • Days on UK TV Episodes Chart: 223

'Episode 1' has charted in the following countries:
United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Canada and Australia.

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Detailed Chart Progress for "Episode 1" (Call the Midwife)

UK TV Episodes chart performance history for Episode 1

Year Month Day Position Movement Number 1
2012 Jan 23 Mon 90 new The Vampire Diaries
The Ties That Bind
24 Tue 19 up
25 Wed 14 up Gossip Girl
Father and the Bride
26 Thu 15 down
27 Fri 15 no-move
28 Sat 17 down
29 Sun 16 up
30 Mon 20 down
31 Tue 27 down Gossip Girl
G.G.
2012 Feb 1 Wed 27 no-move
2 Thu 34 down Geordie Shore
201
3 Fri 33 up The Vampire Diaries
Bringing Out the Dead
4 Sat 42 down
5 Sun 27 up
6 Mon 26 up
7 Tue 30 down Gossip Girl
The Back Up Dan
8 Wed 46 down Geordie Shore
202
9 Thu 43 up
10 Fri 59 down
11 Sat 56 up
12 Sun 44 up
13 Mon 64 down The Vampire Diaries
Dangerous Liasons
16 Thu 81 re-entry Geordie Shore
203
19 Sun 74 re-entry The Vampire Diaries
All My Children
20 Mon 60 up
21 Tue 51 up Gossip Girl
Cross Rhodes
22 Wed 90 down Geordie Shore
204
23 Thu 81 up
24 Fri 69 up
25 Sat 98 down
26 Sun 86 up Homeland
Pilot
27 Mon 70 up True Blood
I'm Alive and On Fire
28 Tue 62 up Gossip Girl
The Princess Dowry
29 Wed 60 up Geordie Shore
Geordie Shore 205
2012 Mar 1 Thu 61 down
2 Fri 90 down
4 Sun 65 re-entry Homeland
Pilot
6 Tue 86 re-entry Homeland
Clean Skin
2013 Jan 28 Mon 88 re-entry Suits
She Knows
30 Wed 82 re-entry Mr. Selfridge
Episode 4
31 Thu 29 up
2013 Feb 1 Fri 39 down Suits
The Choice
2 Sat 31 up
3 Sun 44 down
4 Mon 37 up Mr. Selfridge
Episode 5
5 Tue 51 down Castle
Recoil
6 Wed 50 up
7 Thu 48 up Mr. Selfridge
Episode 5
8 Fri 77 down Suits
Meet the New Boss
2014 Jan 27 Mon 60 re-entry Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Loving and Letting Go
28 Tue 25 up Keeping Up With the Kardashians
How to Deal
29 Wed 15 up Keeping Up With the Kardashians
And All That Jazzzzzzz
30 Thu 25 down
31 Fri 40 down
2014 Feb 1 Sat 44 down Suits
The Arrangement
2 Sun 38 up Keeping Up With the Kardashians
And All That Jazzzzzzz
3 Mon 88 down
4 Tue 79 up
5 Wed 68 up Suits
The Arrangement
6 Thu 96 down
8 Sat 100 re-entry Suits
I Want You to Want Me
2015 Jan 27 Tue 34 re-entry Broadchurch
Episode 4
28 Wed 26 up Ex On The Beach
201
29 Thu 41 down
2015 Feb 1 Sun 43 re-entry Suits
Two in the Knees
2 Mon 85 down
3 Tue 71 up Broadchurch
Episode 5
4 Wed 80 down Ex On The Beach
202
5 Thu 98 down
24 Tue 92 re-entry Broadchurch
Episode 8
2016 Jan 18 Mon 28 re-entry Keeping Up With the Kardashians
The Big Launch
19 Tue 32 down Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Fear of the Unknown
20 Wed 43 down Ex On The Beach
401
21 Thu 35 up Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Fear of the Unknown
22 Fri 28 up
23 Sat 47 down
24 Sun 28 up
25 Mon 44 down
26 Tue 98 down Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Miscommunication
28 Thu 68 re-entry Ex On The Beach
402
2016 Feb 25 Thu 87 re-entry Ex On The Beach
406
2017 Jan 23 Mon 17 re-entry Homeland
Fair Game
24 Tue 14 up
25 Wed 12 up Ex On The Beach
Episode 2
26 Thu 21 down
27 Fri 28 down Homeland
Fair Game
28 Sat 28 no-move Homeland
The Man in the Basement
29 Sun 46 down
30 Mon 33 up
31 Tue 44 down
2017 Feb 1 Wed 96 down Ex On The Beach
Episode 3
3 Fri 76 re-entry
4 Sat 84 down Homeland
Fair Game
6 Mon 60 re-entry Taboo
Taboo: Episode Five
7 Tue 50 up Homeland
The Convenant
8 Wed 71 down Ex On The Beach
Episode 4
9 Thu 72 down
27 Mon 100 re-entry Taboo
Taboo: Episode Eight
2017 Mar 5 Sun 80 re-entry Call the Midwife
Episode 1
2018 Feb 3 Sat 14 re-entry Geordie Shore
Episode 4
4 Sun 18 down Call the Midwife
Episode 1
5 Mon 18 no-move McMafia
Episode 7
6 Tue 33 down
7 Wed 65 down Geordie Shore
Episode 5
9 Fri 82 re-entry
10 Sat 77 up
13 Tue 87 re-entry Keeping Up With the Kardashians
A Tangled Web
14 Wed 82 up
2018 Mar 7 Wed 94 re-entry Keeping Up With the Kardashians
The Gender Reveal
8 Thu 97 down
9 Fri 65 up
10 Sat 85 down
11 Sun 93 down Homeland
Enemy of the State
12 Mon 59 up Homeland
Like Bad at Things
13 Tue 69 down
16 Fri 47 re-entry
19 Mon 92 re-entry Homeland
Active Measures
2019 Jan 14 Mon 21 re-entry Call the Midwife
Episode 1
15 Tue 6 up Outlander
If Not for Hope
16 Wed 6 no-move Silent Witness
Lift up Your Hearts Part 2
17 Thu 7 down Cleaning Up
Episode 2
18 Fri 10 down
19 Sat 33 down
20 Sun 34 down A Very English Scandal
Episode 1001
21 Mon 24 up Vera
Cuckoo
22 Tue 29 down Outlander
Providence
23 Wed 30 down
24 Thu 36 down Silent Witness
To Brighton, To Brighton Part 2
26 Sat 55 re-entry Death in Paradise
Episode 3
28 Mon 89 re-entry Deep State
Old Habits
2019 Feb 1 Fri 91 re-entry Teen Mom UK
Love and Loss
2 Sat 72 up The Charlotte Show
Girls' Night Out
7 Thu 89 re-entry The Charlotte Show
Mam's Going to Iceland
2020 Jan 6 Mon 18 re-entry Doctor Who
Spyfall, Pt. 2
7 Tue 10 up Succession
Celebration
8 Wed 9 up
9 Thu 25 down Silent Witness
Deadhead, Pt. 1
10 Fri 24 up Succession
Celebration
11 Sat 37 down
12 Sun 38 down
13 Mon 27 up Vera
Blood Will Tell
14 Tue 57 down
15 Wed 65 down Succession
Celebration
16 Thu 35 up
18 Sat 51 down Silent Witness
Close to Home - Part 2
19 Sun 41 up Succession
Celebration
20 Mon 94 down The Trial of Christine Keeler
Episode 5
21 Tue 72 up Vera
Parent Not Expected
24 Fri 70 re-entry Succession
Celebration
25 Sat 80 down
26 Sun 68 up
2020 Mar 4 Wed 52 re-entry Call the Midwife
Episode 1
5 Thu 93 down
2020 Jul 23 Thu 55 re-entry Broadchurch
Episode Eight
2020 Dec 26 Sat 5 re-entry The Undoing (2020)
The Undoing
27 Sun 7 down
28 Mon 10 down
29 Tue 8 up
30 Wed 9 down
31 Thu 11 down The Undoing (2020)
The Bloody Truth
2021 Jan 1 Fri 34 down
2 Sat 18 up The Undoing (2020)
The Undoing
3 Sun 17 up Call the Midwife
Episode 1
4 Mon 23 down
5 Tue 20 up
6 Wed 32 down
13 Wed 50 re-entry Call the Midwife
Episode 1
20 Wed 46 re-entry
2021 Apr 11 Sun 100 re-entry Keeping Up With the Kardashians
New Friends and the Bunker
19 Mon 4 re-entry Line of Duty
Episode 4
20 Tue 5 down ZeroZeroZero, Season 1
The Shipment
21 Wed 10 down Call the Midwife
Episode 1
22 Thu 16 down Line of Duty
Episode 5
23 Fri 9 up
24 Sat 8 up
25 Sun 13 down
26 Mon 20 down Line of Duty
Episode 6
27 Tue 46 down
29 Thu 35 re-entry Call the Midwife
Episode 1
30 Fri 56 down Viewpoint
Episode 3
2021 May 1 Sat 17 up Viewpoint
Episode 5
2 Sun 66 down Line of Duty
Episode 6
3 Mon 34 up Line of Duty
Episode 7
5 Wed 22 re-entry
6 Thu 23 down
8 Sat 56 re-entry Keeping Up With the Kardashians
The End of an Era
20 Thu 43 re-entry The Flight Attendant
In Case of Emergency
2021 Jun 1 Tue 38 re-entry Your Honor
Part One
4 Fri 64 re-entry Mare of Easttown
Miss Lady Hawk Herself
2021 Jul 16 Fri 35 re-entry Rick and Morty
Rickdependence Spray
2021 Nov 5 Fri 67 no-move Dalgliesh
Shroud for a Nightingale, Pt. 1
2021 Dec 31 Fri 85 re-entry Star Trek: Discovery
...But to Connect
2022 Jan 3 Mon 9 no-move Doctor Who
Eve of the Daleks
4 Tue 4 no-move Call the Midwife
Episode 1
5 Wed 10 no-move
6 Thu 13 down
7 Fri 43 down
9 Sun 23 re-entry
10 Mon 60 no-move Euphoria
Trouble Don't Last Always
11 Tue 77 no-move
13 Thu 71 re-entry
26 Wed 71 no-move Call the Midwife
Episode 1
27 Thu 67 no-move
28 Fri 77 down
31 Mon 77 re-entry
2022 Mar 23 Wed 62 no-move South Park
Help, My Teenager Hates Me!
2022 May 11 Wed 61 re-entry Peacemaker
A Whole New Whirled
2023 Jan 2 Mon 17 re-entry Happy Valley
Episode 2
3 Tue 31 no-move Call the Midwife
Episode 1
4 Wed 28 no-move The White Lotus: Miniseries
Arrivals
5 Thu 52 no-move
8 Sun 59 re-entry
11 Wed 38 re-entry
12 Thu 46 no-move
2023 Feb 19 Sun 41 re-entry
2023 Mar 5 Sun 70 re-entry Call the Midwife
Episode 1
2024 Jan 8 Mon 44 re-entry Succession
Celebration
9 Tue 10 up The Last of Us
When You're Lost in the Darkness
11 Thu 24 no-move Succession
Celebration
12 Fri 7 up The Last of Us
When You're Lost in the Darkness
14 Sun 41 re-entry True Detective
The Long Bright Dark
2024 Feb 18 Sun 35 re-entry Succession
Celebration

Episode Synopsis: Episode 1

in the spring of 1957 newly qualified midwife jenny lee arrives in the east end of london to begin her career after overcoming the initial shock that her new home nonnatus house is a convent rather than a private hospital...

...quickly becomes immersed in her new life living with nuns and working in a community of colourful characters such as conchita warren and her 25 pregnancies is different from anything jenny has encountered previously through her we experience the sorrows and joys which come with being a midwife

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