![]() ![]() It’s gentle comedy-drama in an era when the genre has fallen out of fashion. There’s no melodrama around vast kitchen islands. “Push them down into the pit of your stomach and hope they go away.” It’s what made Britain great.ĭuring its 18 years on-air, Doc Martin has become something of a TV anomaly. “That’s the best way to deal with uncomfortable emotions, isn’t it?” agreed PC Penhale (Josh Marquez). He had a phobia of feelings, hence being in denial about departing. Perhaps he didn’t have a phobia of blood after all. “A never-ending flow of emotion.” When she bade her boss farewell, he said: “Please don’t hug me.”Īunt Ruth (Eileen Atkins) had a new theory about the dysfunctional physician. “You know the Doc,” deadpanned receptionist Morwenna (Jessica Ransom). Amid all the wobbly lips, our hero remained his stony-faced self. Why swap ravishing Cornwall, where the locals love you, for grey old London, where the locals might well mug you?Ĭue an irresistible hour of mild peril involving a lost dog, an infatuated pharmacist and a herd of marauding heifers. ![]() He became the voice of the dithering Doc’s conscience. In the nick of time, Rupert Graves arrived as a stockbroker-turned-farmer who’d gone the opposite way, swapping town for country. The reluctant GP had been offered a cushy academic job at Imperial College, so packed up his stethoscope and got ready to hit the A30. Except Martin Clunes’s mardy medic suddenly seemed in two minds. ![]() Would he stay or would he go? The last ever episode of Doc Martin (ITV) – well, apart from the forthcoming festive special – saw residents of picture-perfect Portwenn preparing to wave goodbye to “the finest doctor this village has ever had”. ![]()
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