Love Child

Name: Love Child
Genre: Drama
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Jessica Marais, Mandy McElhinney, Darcie Irwin-Simpson, Miranda Tapsell, Andrew Ryan

2014

★★★☆☆ 5.3/10

📺 4 Seasons

🎬 36 Episodes

📅 Ended

🌐 EN

⏱️ 48 min/episode

Drama

The lives of staff at the fictional Kings Cross Hospital and the wild streets of Darlinghurst in the 1960s. Joan Miller is a smart and sophisticated midwife who returns home from London to take a job at the Kings Cross Hospital. Dr Patrick McNaughton is a charismatic head of obstetrics at Kings Cross Hospital. Frances Bolton is the tough matron who also controls the running of Stanton House, a home for unwed pregnant young women.

Seasons

Season 1

2014 • 8 Episodes

Kings Cross, 1969: An ambitious midwife returns from London to uncover a system of forced adoptions at the local hospital. A pregnant country girl, Viv, wakes to find she's been drugged by her parents and sent to a home for unwed mothers.

Season 2

2015 • 8 Episodes

Joan's new career as a doctor is threatened when she helps a pregnant teen. Viv's estranged mother tries to take control of her life. Annie learns a harsh lesson as a single mother in 1970s Kings Cross.

Season 3

2016 • 10 Episodes

It’s 1970 and the times they are a-changing. Joan is devastated to discover an infection has left her almost certainly infertile while delinquent teen Maggie is determined to discover the identity of her birth mother.

Season 4

2017 • 10 Episodes

When Joan goes into early labour, the unorthodox new head of obstetrics is the only one who can help her. Matron has her hands full with three new pregnant girls in Stanton House.