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Doc Martin
Friday
Neighbours, ELEVEN, 6.30pm
Rhys, Jade, Dane and Kyle reconnect as housemates at a share-house Christmas lunch, and Blake tries to apologise to Chris for his father’s behaviour.
Fear of a Brown Planet, ABC2, 9.30pm
Rhys, Jade, Dane and Kyle reconnect as housemates at a share-house Christmas lunch, and Blake tries to apologise to Chris for his father’s behaviour.
Scarlet Road, SBS ONE, 10.05pm
Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton works with many clients who have disabilities. Filmed over a three-year period, the program follows Rachel in her relationship with John, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 26 years ago, and Mark, a client with cerebral palsy, and reveals the therapeutic aspects of human touch and sexual intimacy. This unique documentary gives voice to two men generously sharing moments of sexual self-discovery.
Saturday
Doc Martin, ABC1, 7.32pm
Final. Mrs Tishell’s long standing crush on Dr Martin Ellingham takes a dramatic turn. Fuelled by a cocktail of drugs she boards a bus taking baby James Henry with her.
Movie: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Nine, 7.30pm
Songwriter Dave has been struggling to gain recognition in the music industry for some time but he can’t manage to get a break. However, things soon start to look up when Dave discovers three singing chipmunks.
Shockwave, 7mate, 8.30pm
Watch as a firefighter takes the full force of a massive explosion, and then be a spectator as China Airline flight 120 erupts into a fireball on the runway in Okinawa, Japan.
7:30pm – Saturday, November 26 on ABC1
Bert Large’s restaurant business is in financial trouble. He can’t even afford the food and drink for a charity event to raise money for Florence Dingle’s (Anne Reid) cat sanctuary. Mrs Dingle is distraught. She desperately needs the money to continue to look after the cats and kittens in her care.
Bert is also being chased by loan sharks Alastair Tonken (Alan Williams) and his son Norman (Marcus Cunningham) for the repayment of $1000 they gave him to clear his debts, warning of repercussions if he doesn’t pay up. Al is furious with his father for losing all their money and bringing them to the verge of bankruptcy.
Dr Martin Ellingham (Martin Clunes) is planning to leave Portwenn in a week’s time to resume his career as a surgeon, leaving Louisa (Caroline Catz) and their baby son James Henry in the village. They have their baby’s christening to organise before he leaves. But as usual the doc shows little interest in the event, leaving it all to Louisa.
7:30pm – Saturday, November 19 on ABC1
PC Joe Penhale (John Marquez) is desperate to keep Maggie, his ex-wife, and show her he’s changed; that he’s the macho husband she wants. But once she has the all clear from the doctor, Maggie plans to return to Bude.
Tension is mounting between Louisa (Caroline Catz) and Martin (Martin Clunes). They can’t seem to agree on anything, from the schooling for their son, to what to cook for supper. The final straw for Louisa comes when she discovers Martin has set a date for their baby’s christening without even consulting her. Louisa decides she has had enough. She packs a bag, and takes the baby back home to her mum.
7:30pm – Saturday, November 12 on ABC1
PC Joe Penhale (John Marquez) has an unexpected visitor- his ex-wife Maggie (Julie Graham). She appears to have completely forgotten that they split up a couple of years ago.
He realises she is clearly not well, especially when she tells him she thinks it is April 2008, and that she woke up to find him gone, when she has actually been living with another man since their split. He tries discreetly to ask Dr Ellingham about her symptoms without telling him that he is talking about his ex-wife.
It looks as though romance may be in the air for Louisa’s (Caroline Catz) mother Eleanor (Louise Jameson).
She meets an old school friend, Paul (John Duttine), a local fisherman who takes her out on a date. Martin (Martin Clunes) and Louisa’s baby finally gets a name.
7:30pm – Saturday, November 5 on ABC1
It’s Portwenn Fun Day and the village is buzzing with excitement about this major fund raising event. PC Penhale (John Marquez) is in his element rallying the runners and whipping up support.
The event sparks culinary rivalry between Bert Large (Ian McNeice) who runs Large’s restaurant with son Al (Joe Absolom) and Mark (Tim Goodman Hill), the landlord of the Crab and Lobster pub. They are both keen to take advantage of the day to boost their takings by providing food for the runners and spectators.
Louisa’s mum Eleanor (Louise Jameson) arrives in Portwenn unexpectedly. Louisa is far from happy about her arrival. She hasn’t seen her mother for years, so why the sudden interest.
Martin is even less pleased to see Louisa’s hippyish mother, who takes over his kitchen to cook up a herbal tonic. Eleanor takes great delight in her grandson, and offers to babysit.
Martin and Louisa are puzzled to find their previously wailing baby is sound asleep, and continues to sleep through his feed times. Eleanor confesses she gave him a drop of her herbal brew to soothe him. Martin points out that the concoction has alcohol content, which explains why the baby has been sleeping so much.
Louisa asks her mother to leave. But Eleanor manages to win her round, and she relents.
7:30pm – Saturday, October 29 on ABC1
Sleepless nights are taking their toll on Dr Martin Ellingham (Martin Clunes) and Louisa Glasson (Caroline Catz). Tempers are frayed as they try to find ways to comfort their constantly wailing baby.
Aunt Ruth is dealing with an intruder on the farm who has stolen the hub caps from her car. The thief is identified as Michael Dunwich (Andrew Lee Potts), who lives with his mother Shirley (Miriam Margolyes) on a neighbouring farm.
She decides to pay a visit to mother and son. As a psychiatrist it soon becomes clear to Ruth that Michael is a bit odd. He has a collection of metal objects strewn around the garden. Ruth catches him taking pot shots at her hubcaps.
Shirley makes an appointment with Martin to discuss the crippling stomach pains she has been suffering.
When her son is out of the room, Shirley tells the doc she thinks her son is trying to poison her so he can have the house to himself. But is all as it seems.
New receptionist Morwenna Newcross (Jessica Ransom) fails to make a good impression on the doc by arriving late on her first day. But her problems really begin when her grandfather William (Peter Vaughan) gives her some ‘magic pills’ to make sure she is on time, and bright as a button at work.
7:30pm – Saturday, October 22 on ABC1
With the departure of Dr Dibbs, Dr Ellingham (Martin Clunes) moves back into his old surgery, agreeing to stay for a couple of months until a replacement can be appointed.
Determined to get to grips with fatherhood he asks Louisa (Caroline Catz) to move into his house so he can help to raise their child. He even suggests that Louisa and ‘baby’ could move to London with him.
Louisa reluctantly agrees to move into the doc’s house, and offers to help with reception duties, as the previous receptionist, Pauline has left. But Louisa is none too sure about the move to London. She had hoped to resume her career as headmistress of the village school.
Villagers pack the village church for the funeral of the doc’s Aunt Joan. They are shocked when Martin’s eulogy becomes a health warning about the dangers to the heart of eating the wrong food.
Aunt Joan’s sister Ruth Ellingham (Eileen Atkins) attends the funeral and demonstrates the same cantankerous character as her nephew. She has no more intention of staying in Portwenn than Martin does. But Joan has left her the house and farm.
7:30pm – Saturday, October 15 on ABC1
After a two-year break, the popular drama series about a curmudgeonly London GP who moves to a sleepy Cornish village returns to our screens.
Martin Clunes is back in the title role, and he is joined by regulars Caroline Catz, Ian McNeice and Joe Absolom alongside guest stars Joanna Scanlan and Robert Daws.
In this opening episode Dr Martin Ellingham (Martin Clunes) is struggling to come to terms with fatherhood. The baby boy born to him and his estranged partner, Louisa Glasson (Caroline Catz) is about to change their lives dramatically.
The curmudgeonly GP with no bedside manner planned to resume his highflying career as a consultant in London. He had packed his bags and moved out of the surgery to make way for the new GP, Dr Di Dibbs (Joanna Scanlan).
But the arrival of ‘baby’ – neither the doctor nor Louisa can agree on a name for their son – means Dr Ellingham has to adjust his plans. He moves into Louisa’s house to help with the baby, but it is an awkward situation for both of them.
Dr Dibbs is newly qualified and excited at the prospect of moving into her first surgery, with husband Gavin (Robert Daws) as the practice manager. However Dr Ellingham begins to have serious doubts about the competency of the new GP after she misdiagnoses a patient, and dishes out prescriptions for totally inappropriate drugs. She even misdiagnoses her own illness, which almost proves fatal.
7:30pm – Thursday, May 19 on 7TWO
NEW EPISODE
Martin Clunes stars as a doctor whose truculence and tactless manner causes mayhem in a small Cornish community. If the patients are expecting tea and sympathy from their curmudgeonly GP they are going to be disappointed. Despite his surgical brilliance, he has no personal skills, and his understanding of humans is practically non-existent. Martin soon learns he needs all the allies he can get as he negotiates his way around village life, with hilarious consequences.
In tonight’s episode: A stomach bug hits Portwenn and Martin suspects the village’s water supply could be contaminated, but the locals don’t agree.
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