Doc Martin

Martin Clunes shines in his role as Dr. Martin Ellingham, the world’s grumpiest GP with a brusque bedside manner and a phobia of blood, in the enormously successful dramedy produced by Buffalo Pictures and set in the idyllic Cornish hamlet of Portwenn.

Doc Martin also stars Caroline Catz, Dame Eileen Atkins, Jessica Ransom, Selina Cadell, John Marquez, Ian MacNeice and Joe Absolom.

Created by Dominic Minghella and produced by Philippa Braithwaite, 9 seasons of this very popular ITV comedy-drama have been produced and aired since 2004, with the 10th and final season scheduled to be produced in 2022.

At the end of Season 9 the Doc decided, after having his medical career scrutinized by the General Medical Council because of his blood phobia, that he would resign from being Portwenn’s GP.

This final series sees the Doc making efforts to overcome his phobia, and beginning to question whether he made the right decision about resigning. He and Louisa have also welcomed a baby daughter, Mary Elizabeth, a sister for four-year-old James Henry.

With Louisa pursuing her new career as a child counsellor in his old surgery, the Doc is left literally holding the baby, and indulging his hobby of repairing clocks on the kitchen table. But does he really want his old job back?