Call the Midwife has been voted the best show of the last 25 years in a recent poll. The BBC period drama, which is loosely based on real life events, follows a group of midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s as they cope with the pressures of their everyday lives as well as the changing times they are living through.
In a poll to mark the 25th anniversary of RadioTimes.com, the website’s readers were asked to vote for the best show of the past 25 years from a list complied by the website’s TV experts. Call the Midwife triumphed, leading the poll with 25 per cent of the vote.
The BBC were also successful in securing the second place spot with Doctor Who after the cult sci-fi programme garnered 13 per cent of the total vote. Taking joint-third place were Line of Duty and Sherlock with seven per cent of the vote, while Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones took 5 per cent and four per cent of the vote respectively.
