- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Jane Rackham
What is it about Portwenn that attracts so many batty people? Nearly everyone in the place lives on the fringes of eccentricity. And that’s not another picturesque Cornish village. Tonight we meet Mrs Florence Dingly (played charmingly and lovingly by Anne Reid), who runs the local cat shelter and obviously takes more care of her moggies than she does of herself. Her run-ins with Doc Martin are a comic delight.
Meanwhile, Bert gets into trouble over an outstanding loan, Eleanor shirks her baby-minding duties — off-loading little James onto a local teenager in order to help Bert organise a sangria-laden Andalusian evening — and Martin, facing an emergency, has to perform an operation in his surgery.
About this programme
7/8. Bert struggles to come up with the money to repay loan sharks Alastair and Norman Tonken, who gave him £1,000 to clear his debts. Eleanor falls ill and Martin diagnoses a strangulated hernia, but when the ambulance goes to the wrong village, he has no alternative but to perform the emergency operation himself in his surgery. With Martin Clunes, Ian McNeice and Louise Jameson.
Cast and crew
Cast
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Dr Martin Ellingham
- Martin Clunes
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Louisa Glasson
- Caroline Catz
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Bert Large
- Ian McNeice
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Al Large
- Joe Absolom
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PC Penhale
- John Marquez
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Mrs Tishell
- Selina Cadell
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Ruth Ellingham
- Eileen Atkins
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Morwenna Newcross
- Jessica Ransom
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Eleanor Glasson
- Louise Jameson
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Mrs Dingley
- Anne Reid
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Alastair Tonken
- Alan Williams
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Norman Tonken
- Marcus Cunningham
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Mr Bell
- Bill Thomas
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Mrs Bell
- Judy Norman
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Angie Grappy
- Angela Terence
Crew
- Director
- Paul Seed
- Executive Producer
- Mark Crowdy
- Producer
- Philippa Braithwaite
- Writer
- Richard Stoneman
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