Doc Martin

2023
4.8
861 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (6)

1 Going Bodmin
9/2/04
Doc Martin makes a bad impression on one Portwenn resident before he's officially hired. Things go downhill from there after he casts a pall over a local festival and gets punched in the nose.
2 Gentlemen Prefer
9/9/04
Martin fires his receptionist and informs the locals that they can no longer use his waiting room as a social center. In return, the villagers shun him, the cafe won't serve him, and patients cancel their appointments.
3 Sh*t Happens
9/16/04
A stomach bug sweeps through Portwenn. Martin creates mass panic by declaring it's the swimming pool, and then infuriates the locals by blaming the village water supply. Meanwhile, plumber Bert Large is making a mint off his new business: bottled water.
4 The Portwenn Effect
9/23/04
The annual Portwenn Players Dance is a highlight of the village's social calendar. Louisa invites Martin, but the doctor turns her down. Martin also pays a visit to a park ranger who believes he lives with a six-foot squirrel.
5 Of All the Harbours in All the Towns
9/30/04
Aunt Joan's old flame arrives in Portwenn and rekindles their romance. Confidentiality prevents Martin from telling Joan about the man's health problem. And the doc has love problems of his own: a local teenager has a crush on him.
6 Haemophobia
10/6/04
Martin faces his fear of blood when the town plays a joke on him, and when Peter suffers an injury that requires urgent attention.

About this show

Doc Martin: He's surly, self-centered, rude, and uptight--but he's the only doctor in town. Martin Clunes (Manhunt, Men Behaving Badly) stars as Doc Martin, a hotshot London surgeon forced to change careers when he develops a fear of blood. Relocating to a sleepy, scenic Cornish fishing village, he offends everyone in town and falls in love with a beautiful teacher (Caroline Catz, DCI Banks).

Ratings and reviews

4.8
861 reviews
David G
May 15, 2016
I know the show has to balance comedy with the ongoing romance between the Doc and Louisa, but it's tipped too far in the direction of farce and away from poignancy. While I'm sure the show is generating great laughs in Britain with the over the top situations and characters, what's getting lost is the human element and the plausible evolution of Martin's character. I've followed all seven seasons, and this season was largely a waste, in my opinion. This last episode was dreadful. I wish the writers had taken the opportunity to explore how Martin adopted this somewhat autistic coping style, and what leads to small breakthroughs and relapses along the way. In psychotherapy, Martin suddenly has great self-awareness but we don't know how he's come to it. The self-awareness doesn't seem to translate into anything he does including conversations with Louisa. That is, until the eighth episode when, all at once, everything is magically fixed. As the show has progressed, we've gotten 90% buffoonery instead of depth.
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Fred Eyo
April 4, 2017
The most brilliant show on TV. I wish I can imitate Doc Martin since I run Into stupid people like those he had to Interact with daily. Wouldn't it be nice to tell off a few stupid people like that; sometimes? Oh, In fact all the time!!!! I think we missed Doc Martins first real organism; I mean the one with Louisa, must have been nice to see the doctor wonder what just happened to him and explain away the medical process as if Louisa never had one before. LoL O gosh!! an orgasm; he must have exclaimed. Then explain to Louisa. Hmm!!!! that was my orgasm you just felt, I felt yours too, do you know that happens in the height of passion; you can get pregnant. Bugger!
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Jim Stawicki
August 19, 2015
A brilliant show. I've been addicted since first brought to the States. It's refreshing to watch a witty, funny, clean show like this. Where you grow to have a love/hate relationship with characters. Saddest moment is still when Aunt John passed. Best moment was when baby James was born in the Pub over the P A. system So happy to see them doing season 7. Hopefully the pharmacist gets written off.
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