Martin Platt
| Martin Platt | |||||||||||||||||
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| Coronation Street character | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Sean Wilson | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1985–2005 | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | Episode 2486 28 January 1985 |
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| Last appearance | Episode 7465 9 November 2005 |
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| Introduced by | Mervyn Watson | ||||||||||||||||
| Book appearances | Coronation Street:The Complete Saga | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Nurse | ||||||||||||||||
| Home | Liverpool | ||||||||||||||||
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| Father | Barry Platt |
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| Mother | Barbara Platt |
| Wife |
Gail Tilsley (1991–2001) Robyn Platt (2006–) |
| Sons | David Platt |
| Adoptive sons | Nick Tilsley |
| Adoptive daughters | Sarah-Louise Platt |
| Grandsons | Harry Platt (adoptive) |
| Granddaughters |
Lily Platt Bethany Platt (adoptive) |
Martin Platt is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, portrayed by Sean Wilson. His major storylines were: a relationship with Gail (Helen Worth) following the death of her estranged husband Brian Tilsley (Christopher Quinten) and the birth of their child David (Jack P. Shepherd); a feud with Gail's former mother-in-law Ivy Tilsley (Lynne Perrie); the adoption of Brian's children Sarah-Louise (Tina O'Brien) and Nick (Ben Price); affairs with Cathy Power (Theresa Brindley) and Rebecca Hopkins (Jill Halfpenny); his relationship with 16-year-old Katy Harris; and his involvement in the rescue of Gail and her family from Richard Hillman (Brian Capron).
Teenager Martin Platt is first seen in 1985 as a school-leaver working in Jim's Cafe. He had two GCEs and was studying at Salford Technical College. In February 1989, Brian Tilsley (Christopher Quinten) is murdered and Martin begins comforting his widow and former employer at the café, Gail (Helen Worth). They gradually fall for each other and in 1990, Gail finds she is pregnant. Feeling Martin is too young to settle down, she is about to have an abortion when Martin stops her. Their son David is born on Christmas Day 1990. Martin helps raise Gail's two older children, Sarah-Louise (Lyndsay King) and Nick (Warren Jackson) from her marriage to Brian. He develops a father-daughter relationship with Sarah but Nick does not like him and is often keen to remind him that he is not his real father, and for this reason he cannot tell him what to do. Brian's mother Ivy is also hostile towards Martin, especially when he decides that he wants to adopt Nick and Sarah. With Ivy's husband Don support and told him and Gail that Nicky and Sarah must adopted by away. With Don's words, the adoption later goes through, despite opposition from Ivy (who even told social services that Gail was an unfit mother), but Martin allowed her to visit Nicky and Sarah, anytime she wanted, but, unkown to him and Gail, Ivy changed her will and that Nick must changed back to Tilsley. A few years later, after Ivy has died, Ivy's house is left to a teenage Nick on the condition that his surname is Tilsley, which Martin and Gail dismay, but later support him so he could get a house from Don. Nick finally changes his surname back to Tilsley - with Martin's approval, after he feelings guilty along with Gail for what they did to Ivy.
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