who did david ryall play in call the midwife
David Ryall Ryall's last appearance was in Call the Midwife, where he played Tommy Mills. This episode was aired on BBC One on 1 March 2015 and was dedicated to his memory in the closing credits.
List of Call the Midwife episodes In December 2015, BBC director general Tony Hall announced that the series had already been commissioned for a 2016 Christmas special and a sixth series, set to consist of eight episodes.[10] The Christmas special was set in a missionary hospital in South Africa, and subsequent episodes would see the characters adapting after their return to Poplar as they move into 1962. In November 2016, the BBC announced it has commissioned three further series and Christmas specials, through to a ninth series in 2020, moving the plot into the mid-sixties.[11] As of 11 March 2018,[update] 60 episodes of Call the Midwife have aired, concluding the seventh series.