Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama starring Martin Clunes. It was created by Mark Crowdy, Craig Ferguson and Dominic Minghella. The show is filmed on location in the fishing village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, United Kingdom, with filming of most interior scenes and production in a converted local barn. There are four seasons and a feature-length special that aired on Christmas Day 2006. Another season is planned.
Clunes plays Dr. Martin Ellingham, a brilliant and successful vascular surgeon at Imperial College London who develops haemophobia (an extreme fear of blood) that prevents him from performing operations. After retraining as a General Practitioner, he applies for a post in the sleepy Cornish village of Portwenn, where he spent childhood holidays with his aunt. Upon arriving in Portwenn, Dr. Ellingham (called "Doc Martin" by the locals), finds the surgery in disarray, the medical equipment beyond repair, and the patients’ records in a mess. He inherits an incompetent receptionist, Elaine Denham, who resents his coming. (Her character is replaced by Pauline Lamb in the second series.)
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