Doc Martin

Doc Martin: Summary

Airs Next:ITV1 at Thursday 9:00 PM (60 min.)
Status:Returning Series
Premiered:September 2, 2004
Show Categories:Drama

Martin Clunes stars in Doc Martin, a brand new comedy drama, as a doctor whose truculence and tactless manner causes mayhem in a small Cornish community.

Martin plays surgeon Martin Ellingham, whose glittering career comes crashing down around him when he develops a phobia which prevents him conducting operations. He makes a life changing decision to retrain as a GP, and applies for a vacant post in the sleepy Cornish hamlet of Portwenn, where he spent childhood holidays. 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 is joined by a prestigious cast which includes Stephanie Cole as his Aunt Joan, who provides him with emotional support in the face of the disquiet among the villagers. Caroline Catz plays pretty primary school teacher Louisa Glasson. Doc Martin is attracted to her, but he is hopeless at personal relationships. Martin Clunes stars in Doc Martin, a brand new comedy drama, as a doctor whose truculence and tactless manner causes mayhem in a small Cornish community.

Martin plays surgeon Martin Ellingham, whose glittering career comes crashing down around him when he develops a phobia which prevents him conducting operations. He makes a life changing decision to retrain as a...

Series 3, Episode 7

Aired: Monday November 5, 2007

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Martin ClunesDr. Martin Ellingham
Ian McNeiceBert Large
Stewart WrightPC Mark Mylow
Lucy PunchElaine Denham
Stephanie ColeJoan Norton

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xXxMalteaserxXx
member since: Jun 19, 2007
The Bottom Line: "Underappreciated"
Doc Martin is a blunt doctor who moves to a surgery in a small Cornish town.He ruffles a few feathers but is very well suited to the town and everyone loves him from the start.He is quite a loner and is not used to company or relationships. ...Continue »
I have to admit I do quite like this show.Most people don't even know what channel it's on never mind what it's about but because of my mother I've been introduced to some really enjoyable shows and this is most definitely one of them.I think one of the main reasons I'm drawn to this show is because of the humour and his blunt and quite often careless replies and answers to the quite pushy and over-friendly neighbours.I enjoy his awkward behaviour and his struggles to fit in with the people there.His fear of blood is at times quite funny but can sometimes ensue gory scenes which I can't watch being afraid of blood myself.I think the writers write this not planning on making it so funny because it just seems so casual and carefree it's as if it's just coincidental.
04/10/08 02:49pm | report abuse
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chuffin
member since: Sep 12, 2006
The Bottom Line: "Personal favorite"
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIENT !! ...Continue »
Well, I have to say that I very much look forward to watching the "Doc" every week. It is a nice change from some of the other shows , and I enjoy the English humour !! It wouldnt be nice if i didnt mention Mark also, he is very charming in his own way, and ever so loveable. Hope something good happens to him soon, as he could use a little good luck right now!! I also get a hoot out of large and son, very interesting partnership. Keep up the good work and look forward to more creative writing!!!
05/03/07 11:56pm | report abuse
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pickie_bickie
member since: Sep 17, 2006
The Bottom Line: "A decent show"
When I first started watching Doc Martin, I was like..."HUH?" What is this? Is it good? The more I watched the more I enjoyed, until the point where I could not wait for the netx episode (Thank goodness for DVD's). ...Continue »
As you can see from the summary, Doc Martin is about a doctor being forced out of his busy London practice because of a phobia of blood. However, this show is more than the fact that he basically failed at what he was good at over a psychological condition, it is about trumphing in adverse situations. Here a proud man returns to his childhood haunts, cynical, scartasic, and down right oblivious how his actions and words affect other people. Still through experiences of being a general practioner of medicine in a small town, he begins to learn and to love not only himself but others. He is the perfect anti-hero, the person who says and does everything wrong, and yet you still find yourself rooting for him, hoping against hope, it will all turn out right...Only if he could stop putting his foot in his mouth first (and by not mentioning that the woman he is kissing has morning breath).
01/29/07 03:42pm | report abuse
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Pazzial
member since: Nov 28, 2005
The Bottom Line: "Unintentionally funny"
These people know NOTHING about cornwall ...Continue »
This show about the life story of grumpy docter in a small village is so ridicuolos, it's actually funny.

First off; if you've ever been to cornwall you would know that this show has the most ridiculous portrayal of cornish life you've ever seen:

1)Docters do not set up their own surgeries and drive round all over cornwall. We hospitals too you know.

2)You don't wait for a docter to come THEN call an ambulance, you call the ambulance first. What's more cornwall has an efficant Air Ambulance service which works much more efficantly than any of the medical services in this program.

3) You don't take driving tests in country roads, you take them in bigger towns like Bodmin and Launceston (Yeah you heard me right! There are busy towns in cornwall besides Truro and we're quite more advanced than you think!)

Even without the locational inacuracies, the 'emtional moments' in this show are so badly done it's hilarious. In one episode, a man who only started selling pesticides to a farmer at the begining of the episode actually kisses the farmer's hand when he's injured. PLUS in the same episode, a women goes from a simple fainting spell to fatal blood clot that ends in death in a matter of seconds!

In all, a brillant comedy, but an appaling 'drama'
12/09/05 07:55am | report abuse