Vincent Franklin

Vincent Warren Franklin is an English actor from Haworth, England. He is best known for his roles in comedy television programmes. He has appeared in a number of feature films including the Mike Leigh films Topsy-Turvy, Vera Drake and Mr Turner, and the 2006 films Confetti and The Illusionist, as well as The Bourne Identity. In 2018, he played the role of Mike Travis in the BBC television series Bodyguard.

DOC MARTINS1, E1

Going Bodmin

Doc Martin makes a bad impression on one Portwenn resident before he's officially hired. Things go downhill from there after he casts a pall over a local festival and gets punched in the nose.
DOC MARTINS4, E1

Better the Devil

Louisa has left, and Martin has begun to question what keeps him in Cornwall. It’s certainly not his relentlessly annoying patients. It’s certainly not the amorous advances of the infatuated local chemist, Mrs Tishell. Martin has realised that if he is ever to escape, he must conquer his worst fear: the blood phobia that ended his surgical career.
DOC MARTINS5, E2

Dry Your Tears

Determined to come to grips with fatherhood, Doc Martin asks Louisa to move in so he can help raise their child. But it's his suggestion that she and the baby relocate with him to London that makes Louisa most uncertain. Meanwhile, when the doctor's cantankerous aunt, Ruth Ellingham, turns up at Portwenn for a funeral, she has no intentions of staying - until an unexpected gift makes her reconsider.
DOC MARTINS8, E7

Blade on the Feather

Penhale and Morwenna participate in the annual gig race against another town. Louisa buys a new car, and Martin’s blood phobia causes a disaster with a patient.
DOC MARTINS8, E8

All My Trials

Martin stops practicing the week before his hearing, but patients continue to solicit his advice. An American tourist asks Mrs. Tishell for help, and Penhale commissions a bust of himself.
THE THICK OF ITS3, E4

Episode 4

The civil servants at DoSAC are preparing for a visit from the shadow minister Peter Mannion. For Mannion and his team, this informal pre-election briefing is a good opportunity to measure up for new curtains. For Nicola Murray, it is simply another distraction on a day when nothing seems to be going right. All she really wants to do is get Glenn and Olly to kick-start the Fourth Sector Pathfinder Initiative. And then she gets a call.