Call the midwife.

Loved the first episode. I have just enough history to recognise things. Post WWII era means the baby boom. No contraceptive pill. Rationing, so food and clothing very simple. Poor people have always lived in the East End of London because that is downwind of the city and the air is worse. Before the Clean Air Act the smog+fog was sometimes so bad that people died. The 50s is recent so there was a very real and unjudgmental sense of place and time, although the era is completely vanished, which makes it quaint and interesting. Also, childbirth is a yucky thing, just as I suspected, and which I have not really picked up in other movies and tv shows featuring a birth. Bicycles film well, they lend themselves to long travelling outdoor shots. There was a quotable quote in the first 5 minutes: "The time has come for us to go in search of cake."