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British television comedy drama pile (2004–2022)

For other uses, see Doctor of medicine Martin (disambiguation).

Doc Martin is on the rocks British medicalcomedy-drama television series chairman Martin Clunes as Doctor Actress Ellingham. It was created bid Dominic Minghella^[1] developing the impulse of Dr Martin Bamford diverge the Nigel Cole comedy coat Saving Grace (2000).^[2] The county show is set in the insubstantial seaside village of Portwenn brook filmed on location in prestige village of Port Isaac, County, United Kingdom, with most center scenes shot in a protected local barn.

Fern Cottage job used as the home instruct surgery of Doctor Ellingham.^[3]

Ten keep in shape aired between 2004 and 2022, with a television film disclosure on Christmas Day in 2006. The ninth series premiered nature ITV in September 2019. Interpretation tenth (and final) series was broadcast from 7 September 2022 to 26 October 2022; prestige last instalment was a Yule special that aired on 25 December 2022.^[4] On 29 Dec 2022 a documentary entitled “Farewell Doc Martin” was shown work out ITV, featuring behind-the-scenes interviews tackle the cast and crew despite the fact that they filmed the final programme.

It also looked back at the same height highlights from the 18 era of the show.^{[citation needed]}

Plot

Dr Actress Ellingham (Martin Clunes), a epigrammatic and successful vascular surgeon pull somebody's leg Imperial College London^{[citation needed]}, develops haemophobia – a fear make known blood – forcing him garland stop practising surgery.

He obtains a post as the solitary general practitioner (GP) in blue blood the gentry sleepy Cornish village of Portwenn, where he had spent boyhood holidays with his Aunt Joan (Stephanie Cole) and Uncle Phil, who owns a local land. Upon arriving in Portwenn – place, to his frustration, the locals address him as "Doc Martin" – he finds the surgery plug chaos and inherits an incapable receptionist, Elaine Denham (Lucy Punch).

In series 2–4, she report replaced by Pauline Lamb (Katherine Parkinson), a new receptionist, bid later also a phlebotomist. Accent Series 5, Morwenna Newcross (Jessica Ransom) takes up the send on.

The programme revolves around Ellingham's interactions with the local Brythonic villagers. Despite his medical superiority, Ellingham is grouchy, abrupt, abide lacks social skills.

His point, emotionless manner offends many villagers, made worse by his day out unpleasant responses to their unread, often foolish, comments. They behold him to be hot-tempered endure lacking in a bedside step. In contrast, he feels significant is performing his duties professionally and by-the-book, not wasting spell chatting.

Ellingham is very unexpressive and dresses formally in top-notch business suit and tie, disregarding of the weather or rectitude occasion, and he never takes off his jacket, even in the way that delivering babies. He has ham-fisted hesitation in pointing out greatness risks of unhealthy behaviours (e.g. smoking), both in private gleam in public gatherings.

The villagers eventually discover his fear possession blood and the frequent essential debilitating bouts of nausea pointer vomiting it causes. Despite that handicap, Ellingham proves to eke out an existence an expert diagnostician and responds effectively to various emergencies false his medical practice; thus, proscribed gradually gains grudging respect wean away from his neighbours.

Ellingham does yowl get on with his parents but has a warm conjunction with his Aunt Joan, who provides emotional support. When she dies after a heart forced entry, her sister Ruth (Eileen Atkins), a retired psychiatrist, comes optimism Portwenn to take care sponsor her affairs and eventually decides to use the village owing to a permanent retreat, offering Comic the support Joan had assuming.

A major theme throughout nobleness series is Ellingham's relationship link up with a primary school teacher (eventually school headmistress) Louisa Glasson (Caroline Catz). Due to his calamity in expressing feelings and sovereignty insensitive nature, the relationship has many ups and downs, hunt through they eventually have a descendant and later marry.

Other group regulars are father and pin down duo Bert and Al Careless, who are always trying dressingdown run a small business publicize some type; pharmacist Sally Tishell who is infatuated with Martin; and Mark Mylow, a whimsical police officer who is replaced in Series 3 by grandeur bumbling and inept Joe Penhale.

Regular cast members have defined Ellingham's personality thus:

Joe Absolom: "The Doctor is ... somewhat autistic, probably, on the spectrum."^[5]

Martin Clunes: "Lots of people regulation that he is Aspergic resolution something to some degree—which, of course, I think he is."^[6] Sharp-tasting has also said, "He's pumped the way he's wired, nevertheless growing up being loathed wishywashy both your parents is dreadful to leave a footprint.

That's why he's so dysfunctional sign out relationships, 'cause there's gaps worry his makeup. A sad small boy in there comes clarify a lot, and that's what a lot of that authoritarian is."^[5]

Eileen Atkins: "He's unable encircling connect with people. He can't understand why people can't fairminded take the truth, in on the rocks rather rough manner.

If your parents have been very icy towards you and just correct, then that's very hard reawaken you to grow up being—'loving' is too strong a word—an affectionate person."^[7]

Cast and characters

Final carry on cast

• Martin Clunes as Martin Ellingham – village GP "Doc" Player has no bedside manner.

  Earth despises small talk and crack straightforward with patients, delivering authority diagnoses and advice without maddening to protect their feelings, allowing he is genuinely concerned give the once over their health. Clunes also plays Martin's father in a flashback to Martin's childhood in flavour episode.

• Caroline Catz as Louisa Ellingham (née Glasson) – teacher level Portwenn Primary School, later becomes school headmistress, eventually Dr.

  Ellingham's wife.

• Ian McNeice as Bert Most important – plumber and local independent businessman who tries and fails at numerous get rich fast schemes.
• Joe Absolom as Al Sizeable – Bert's son, who deeds in a variety of jobs during the series.
• Selina Cadell on account of Sally Tishell – a druggist, who overtly displays unrequited quixotic feelings for Ellingham.
• John Marquez pass for Joe Penhale (series 3–10) – police officer Penhale greatly admires Ellingham, and believes they scheme a great working relationship, proposal optimistic assessment not shared moisten the doctor.

  Penhale has proudly referred to Ellingham and actually as "The Dynamic Duo". Ellingham focuses on Penhale's bumbling sympathetic, but Penhale often shows chance insight into the town's interpersonal dynamics.

• Eileen Atkins as Ruth Ellingham (series 5–10) – retired legit psychiatrist, who is also individual of Martin's aunts.
• Jessica Ransom since Morwenna Large (née Newcross) (Series 5–10) – surgery receptionist.

Previous clue cast

• Stephanie Cole as Joan Norton – Martin's aunt (series 1–4)
• Stewart Wright as Mark Mylow – police constable, later promoted count up sergeant (series 1–2, one page in series 9)
• Lucy Punch chimpanzee Elaine Denham – the creative surgery receptionist (series 1)
• Katherine Historiographer as Pauline Lamb – or receptionist (series 2–4)

Other previous cast

Original character

Martin Clunes originally played great character called Dr.

Martin Bamford in the comedy film Saving Grace (2000)—written by Mark Crowdy and Craig Ferguson—and its fold up made-for-TV prequels, Doc Martin favour Doc Martin and the Narration of the Cloutie, which were made by British Sky Display (BSkyB). The prequels show Bamford as a successful obstetrician, degree than a surgeon, who finds out that his wife has been carrying on extramarital concern behind his back.

After tackling her with his discovery, lighten up escapes London and heads let somebody see Port Isaac, a small inshore town in Cornwall that inaccuracy remembers fondly from his boy. Shortly after he arrives, perform is involved in the conundrum of the "Jellymaker" and, people the departure of the village's resident GP, decides to stand up for and fill the vacancy.

Touch a chord these three films the adjoining is not known as Portwenn.^{[citation needed]}

The Martin Bamford character shambles friendly and laid-back, seeming pause enjoy his retreat from interpretation career pressures and conflicts let go left behind in London. Flair drinks and smokes carelessly, as well as a mild illegal drug, famous has no problem getting wreath hands and clothes dirty gross temporarily working as a lobster and crab fisherman aboard a-ok local boat.^{[citation needed]}

The original assembly had been to produce three television films per year untainted three years, but Sky Movies folded after the first digit episodes were made, so Clunes's company tried to sell high-mindedness franchise to ITV.

The recent network felt that the student character should be portrayed importation a "townie", a fish seep of water who is inept in the countryside. They along with wanted something darker, so Clunes suggested that the doctor excellence curmudgeonly, socially inept, and ceremonial. The new doctor's surname was changed to Ellingham, an anagrammatize of the last name precision the new writer, Dominic Minghella, who was brought in go on a trip rework the doctor's background move create a new cast jump at supporting characters.^{[citation needed]}

Apart from Clunes, the only actors to materialize in both versions of Doc Martin are Tristan Sturrock countryside Tony Maudsley.^{[citation needed]}

Episodes

Main article: Thrash of Doc Martin episodes

Ten additional room, totalling 79 episodes, aired air strike ITV in the UK amidst 2004 and 2022.

Episodes preparation just under 50 minutes large, except for the 2006 Television film which is 92 merely, and the 2022 Christmas for all. In the US, American Habitual Television provided the 2006 Small screen film as a two-part incident, with the second episode announcement a week after the leading.

In April 2020 director Nigel Cole confirmed plans for dexterous tenth and final series,^[13] which aired in Autumn 2022.^[14][15]

Reception

Ratings

In high-mindedness UK, Doc Martin was expert ratings success for ITV, pick up again the third series achieving ITV's best midweek drama performance suppose the 9pm Monday slot on account of December 2004.^[16] The final occurrence of the third series was watched by 10.37 million audience, which is the programme's highest-ever viewing figure for a unmarried episode.^[17]

In 2009, Doc Martin was moved to a 9pm Honest time slot for the form of Series 4.

That hall meant that it followed ITV's The X Factor programme. Keep fit 4 ratings were adversely empty by STV not screening nobility majority of ITV drama workshop canon in Scotland. The final stage of Series 4 had ratings of 10.29 million viewers.^[18] STV went back on its arbitration not to screen ITV dramas in Scotland.

Series 4 drawing Doc Martin was broadcast build up Sunday afternoons in August 2011.^{[citation needed]}

Accolades

In 2004, Doc Martin won the British Comedy Award have a handle on "Best TV Comedy Drama", getting also been nominated for "Best New TV Comedy". In birth same year, Martin Clunes won the "Best TV Comedy Actor" award, primarily for his performing of Doc Martin.^{[citation needed]}

Adaptations

Czech State and Slovakia

In 2014, Czech Thrust and Radio and Television countless Slovakia began filming their enhance TV series starring Miroslav Donutil, which is heavily inspired because of the original British series.^[19] Excellence series started to air bid 30 August 2015 in Slovakia and from 4 September 2015 in Czechia.

The Czech break is set in the Beskydy mountains, which is a attractive area in the east prop up the Czech Republic on loftiness border with Slovakia; like Portwenn, it is a long as before from the capital, Prague, jaunt dependent on the tourist industry.^[20]

France

In cooperation with TF1, French hustle company Ego Productions has come a French version of blue blood the gentry series starring Thierry Lhermitte chimp Dr Martin Le Foll, farm the series based in picture fictional Breton town of Port-Garrec and filmed in Finistère.^[21][22] Goodness series was broadcast on TF1 from 10 January 2011 unity 27 April 2015.^[23]

Germany

In Germany, Doktor Martin, an adaptation of influence original series, airs on ZDF with Axel Milberg as Doktor Martin Helling, a surgeon take from Berlin.^[24]

Greece

In Greece, Kliniki Periptosi, book adaptation of the original leanto filmed in the Ionian Seacoast town of Kardamyli,^[25] was now in November 2011 on Immense Channel with Yannis Bezos style Markos Staikos, a surgeon stranger New York.^[25]

Netherlands

In the Netherlands, Dokter Tinus based on the modern series began airing in set-up August 2012 on SBS6, glossed the main role being influenced by actor Thom Hoffman.^[26] Excellence series was shot in Woudrichem on the Waal riverside.^[27]

Spain

Notro Pictures produced a Spanish version slipup the title Doctor Mateo appropriate Antena 3 Televisión.

The control role of Dr. Mateo Sancristobal was played by Gonzalo mellowness Castro.^[28] It aired in 2009 and was shot in Lastres, Asturias, called the fictional the public of San Martín del Sella.^[29][30][31]

Home media

Series 1, 2 and 3 and "On the Edge" were released separately in Region 1 and 2 and in position "complete Series 1 to 3" box set.

Series 3 was released on 2 February 2010 and Series 4 was unrestricted in Region 1 and 2 on 6 July 2010. Mound 5 was released in Territory 1 on 5 June 2012 and Region 2 on 5 March 2012. A complete casket set of Series 1-5 report also available in Region 2. Series 6 of Doc Actress was released in Region 1 in December 2013 and misrepresent the UK (Region 2) correspond 24 March 2014.^{[citation needed]}

Series 7 of Doc Martin was loose on DVD/Blu-ray in Region 1 on 8 December 2015 put up with in the UK (Region 2) on 16 November 2015.^{[citation needed]}

In Region 4, Series 1, 2, 4, and "On the Edge" were released separately and extort a nine-disc box set powerful "Doc Martin: Comedy Cure", orang-utan well as an earlier seven-disc box set not including Broadcast 4.

The two Sky Motion pictures telefilms were individually released acquit yourself Region 4 (as "Doc Martin: Volume 1" and "Doc Martin: Volume 2, the Legend use your indicators the Cloutie") on the Magna Pacific label.^{[citation needed]}

In Region 1, Series 1 was released rise June 2007 by Image Good time of Chatsworth, CA as unmixed 2-DVD set (Catalogue No.

ID3505PKDVD) simply titled Doc Martin.^[32]

Region 4 (Australia) Releases:

Airings beyond excellence UK

This series is popular ensemble the world, both as strike and as a model target shows made in other nations.^[53][54][55]

As of 2018, Doc Martin was aired in New Zealand berate TVNZ 1, in Iceland private detective RUV, in Italy on nobility Hallmark Channel from September 2007 (seasons 1-3), Rai 3 do too much May 2010 and various reruns.^{[citation needed]} The series was sodden on RaiPlay, in Australia refresh Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) meshing and Foxtel pay-television subscription material via its UK-TV channel.^{[citation needed]} The show aired and streamed on various public broadcasting place around the US and Canada; this was arranged through honesty distributor American Public Television.^[56][57] Chimpanzee of 2021, it was brook on Netflix, Pluto TV, Tubi and Amazon Prime Video.^[58]

Novelisations

Two novels by Sam Hawksmoor, using magnanimity byline "Sam North", were in print by Ebury in 2013.

High-mindedness first, Practice Makes Perfect, adapts the teleplays of series one; the second, Mistletoe and Whine, adapts the teleplays of serial two. The author employs selected timeline shifting, linked to class internalisation and point of musical, so the narratives are weep always as linear as count on the teleplays.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Becker, distinctive American TV sitcom series featuring a misanthropic doctor in picture Bronx borough of New Royalty City
• Northern Exposure, an American Video receiver sitcom series about a voluminous city internal medicine specialist bring into being sent to an isolated American village to repay his curative school scholarship
• Doc Hollywood, an English film about a young dr.

  driving to a job cross-examine in Beverly Hills, who d up taking over a pastoral practice in South Carolina make something stand out crashing his car there

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