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Returning: Doc Martin

After a very long break one of the ABC's most popular dramas returns with new episodes.

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After a very long break one of the ABC’s most popular dramas returns with new episodes, as we return to  that sleepy Cornish village once more.

Martin Clunes, Caroline Catz, Ian McNeice and Joe Absolom are back in a new series of Doc Martin joined by series guests Joanna Scanlan and Robert Daws.

In this opening episode Dr Martin Ellingham (Martin Clunes) is struggling to come to terms with fatherhood. The baby boy born to him and his estranged partner, Louisa Glasson (Caroline Catz) is about to change their lives dramatically.

The curmudgeonly GP with no bedside manner planned to resume his highflying career as a consultant in London. He had packed his bags and moved out of the surgery to make way for the new GP, Dr Di Dibbs (Joanna Scanlan).

But the arrival of ‘baby’ neither the doctor nor Louisa can agree on a name for their son means Dr Ellingham has to adjust his plans. He moves into Louisa’s house to help with the baby, but it is an awkward situation for both of them.

Dr Dibbs is newly qualified and excited at the prospect of moving into her first surgery, with husband Gavin (Robert Daws) as the practice manager. However Dr Ellingham begins to have serious doubts about the competency of the new GP after she misdiagnoses a patient, and dishes out prescriptions for totally inappropriate drugs. She even misdiagnoses her own illness, which almost proves fatal.

7:30pm Saturday October 15 ABC1.

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  2. I love this show and why all the whinges about the time slot. Many of us stay home on Saturday night. Others will have to wait for the DVD.

  4. This was an excellent program that had reached its logical and emotional endpoint, trying to extend it into another season is a mistake. The shark has been jumped, it’ll be all downhill from here.

  7. why saturday. that a slot they use for shows that need to build an audience while there is little competition. Surely Doc Martin is strong enough to take on a higher profile slot. There are a lot of young people like myself that watch the show but will miss it. i think it could get 2mil during the week, but looks like it will have to settle for the 1.4mil it will get on a Saturday.

  9. This must be ABC-TV’s effort to “fast-track” an ITV programme – S5E1 hit the airwaves in Britain on Sept 12 – and there’s no word of the DVD release in UK as yet… Well done, Auntie !

    And I’m sure the Doc’s success on 7-Two (and the current Clunes’ screening of ‘William and Mary’) will help bring more viewers to the Saturday night time slot.

    Port Isaac really is a beautiful part of the world.

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