Call The Midwife is “running out” of certain storylines to feature on the show – because of vaccinations.
The drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s.
But the next, tenth season will be set in 1966 when many diseases had been significantly eradicated by vaccination programmes.
Stephen McGann, who plays Dr Turner, said: “We are actually having a problem on Call the Midwife, because we’re running out of these old diseases we started with, because we’re being vaccinated.”
Call the Midwife writer Heidi Thomas urges people to get vaccinated saying “the show reminds us what things used to be like.”
She added: “There will always be something new for example but polio and TB are sort of on the run. I have to look for new stories as we can’t do stories really about polio anymore.
“By 1967, it had been eradicated.
“So I am looking forward to the way in which medicine changes and we just aren’t running out of material yet I think.”
Series 10 will air on BBC One later in 2021.
Call the Midwife would normally return in January but filming was delayed for five months by coronavirus. The series has also now been reduced from eight episodes to seven.
The drama has already been re-commissioned by the BBC for season 11 too.
Heidi previously said she was delighted by the deal as she is able to plan out some long-term storylines
“It is actually lovely to have some certainty, because I feel Call the Midwife is fuelled by character and character development,” she said.
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