Doctor Franklin/Dark Shadows

Doctor Franklin was a minor character featured in the ABC Gothic soap opera series Dark Shadows. He was played by actor Ivor Francis and appeared in episode 191.

Biography
Doctor Franklin was a physician who worked out of a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts during the late 1960s. In 1967, he was charged with the care of a wealthy woman from Maine named Elizabeth Collins Stoddard who had mysteriously fallen into a coma. Elizabeth's daughter, Carolyn, kept a close vigil over her. Doctor Franklin tried to convince her to go back to her hotel to get some rest, but Carolyn insisted on staying by her mother's bedside. Franklin and the other staff members at the hospital felt an equal measure of helplessness for they were unable to revive Ms. Stoddard her coma. Doctor Franklin told Carolyn that she should not give up hope. Her mother had suffered no apparent brain damage and her physical condition was not deteriorating in any way.