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Doc Martin

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Doc Martin	label	Doc Martin
Doc Martin	page	DocMartin
Doc Martin	comment	A mix of Medical Drama and Brit Com, brought to you by ITV starring Martin Clunes. Dr. Martin Ellingham is a highly skilled doctor with two fairly glaring characteristics: firstly, he's a misanthrope with the bedside manner of Hannibal Lecter; secondly, he's managed to acquire a fear of blood. The latter resulted in him leaving his job as a renowned surgeon in London and heading for the Cornish village of Portwenn to become their GP (General Practitioner, i.e. village doctor). There he deals with the variety of local oddballs who often ignore his medical advice, the ailment of the week, being a magnet for the local dogs, his aunt(s), and the argumentative local schoolmistress.The character is based on the character Doctor Martin Bamford from the 2000 Comedy film Saving Grace and the two BSkyB TV movies Doc Martin and Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie, before being significantly retconned and renamed "Ellingham" by Dominic Minghella (spot the anagram). Aside from the scenic postcode, there is no link between the two characters.The show aired a total of ten series. In 2020 Saving Grace director Nigel Cole confirmed that the tenth series would be the last — it started airing on 7th September 2022 and concluded on 26th October 2022, followed by a Christmas special that served as the series finale.
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Doc Martin / int_14db7384	type	Express Lane Limit
Doc Martin / int_14db7384	comment	Express Lane Limit: Martin's secretary, Elaine, is late to work on her first day because she stopped by the supermarket to get supplies, and got into an argument about whether she was entitled to use the "six items or less" lane (she had 20 items, but claimed the important thing was she had fewer than six types of item).
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Doc Martin / int_15070c2b	type	Timmy in a Well
Doc Martin / int_15070c2b	comment	Timmy in a Well: Parodied in the Series 7 finale. Buddy finds where Martin is being held prisoner and runs for help. Penhale goes through the dialogue mockingly and then goes on his way, although he ends up in the right spot anyway by starting in the last known location.
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Doc Martin / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Doc Martin / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: Ellingham diagnoses one patient with Exploding Head Syndrome, the patient assumes it's a literal description, fearing this trope. Martin calls a kid's bluff about turning deaf (to get out of school) by proclaiming out loud that his head is going to explode.
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Doc Martin / int_17e47466	type	Emotionally Tongue-Tied
Doc Martin / int_17e47466	comment	Emotionally Tongue-Tied: Martin.
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Doc Martin / int_1b4ead2d	type	Soft Glass
Doc Martin / int_1b4ead2d	comment	Soft Glass: Averted. It's never treated as anything but a hazard, particularly when a girl crashes through a glass doorway and ends up unconscious and nearly bleeding to death. Merely downplayed once in Series 6, when Al smashes through an old single-pane window with his elbow in order to reach an emergency defibrillator kit after someone is electrocuted on the beach. Al only has cuts caused by it.
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Doc Martin / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Doc Martin / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Martin is horrible at communication. Most of the time, he just barks orders without bothering to explain himself. For example, in series 6, when he discovers that Louisa has an abnormality in her brain that could kill her if it ruptures, when he calls her to warn her about it, he just tells her not to get on the plane without telling her why. Naturally, she assumes its because he doesn't want her to leave and hangs up, forcing him to race to the airport (he also doesn't bother to call the airport and try to warn them). Lots of patients can't, for whatever reason, explain their symptoms properly to Martin, resulting in lots of near death scares.
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Doc Martin / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Doc Martin / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Subverted in the fourth episode, when Martin expects a confrontation with a father angry that Martin's seduced the man's daughter (he fixed her dislocated shoulder and she developed a crush, who baked him a cake and showed up naked in his bed). A huge Tae Kwan Do instructor walks into Martin's surgery and ...the father turns out to be a Reasonable Authority Figure and apologizes for the inconvenience because his daughter has a habit of doing this.
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Doc Martin / int_1f0f3d6f	type	Cute Kitten
Doc Martin / int_1f0f3d6f	comment	Cute Kitten: Even the All Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks love cute kittens, they keep one in their van.
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Doc Martin / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Doc Martin / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: If someone coughs, scratches an itch, or sneezes in the beginning, they're probably the victim of this week's medical mystery. It happens at least Once an Episode.
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Doc Martin / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Doc Martin / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Local ranger Stewart James appears to be this at first, having a perfectly pleasant conversation with Martin and appearing to be far more on the ball than most of the villagers, prompting Martin to question why he wants prescription tranquilisers. It's when he starts talking to a six foot tall invisible red squirrel called Anthony that things become clear. (Though in his more lucid moments when his PTSD isn't affecting him too much, he reverts to this.)
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Doc Martin / int_24cdd048	type	Arcadia
Doc Martin / int_24cdd048	comment	Arcadia: The show takes place in an idyllic rural fishing village.
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Doc Martin / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Doc Martin / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The Christmas special and series 7 finale both open with Martin tied up and then flash back to 3 days and 24 hours earlier respectively.
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Doc Martin / int_2b68b7fa	type	Sickeningly Sweethearts
Doc Martin / int_2b68b7fa	comment	Sickeningly Sweethearts: A couple honeymooning in Portwenn in the Series 5 finale.
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Doc Martin / int_2d93999b	type	Pastimes Prove Personality
Doc Martin / int_2d93999b	comment	Pastimes Prove Personality: Martin is frequently seen repairing clocks, showing that even his hobby is similar to his job, requiring slow care and attention to detail.
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Doc Martin / int_2f5790f5	type	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
Doc Martin / int_2f5790f5	comment	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Martin Clunes' Men Behaving Badly co-star Caroline Quentin appeared in three episodes.
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Doc Martin / int_2fa60cdd	type	Kissing Under the Influence
Doc Martin / int_2fa60cdd	comment	Kissing Under the Influence: Martin and Louisa after they drink a couple bottles of wine. Chris Parsons almost kisses Louisa before having an alcohol-induced seizure.
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Doc Martin / int_30b41d96	type	Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress
Doc Martin / int_30b41d96	comment	Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: Louisa, after a man's carotid artery is cut in the course of her honeymoon from hell.
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Doc Martin / int_3107a493	type	Open Heart Dentistry
Doc Martin / int_3107a493	comment	Open Heart Dentistry: Martin is a qualified surgeon and never does anything outside of his field but has occasionally had to perform surgery on the fly such as removing Eleanor's hernia in the consulting room with Morwenna as his assistant because the ambulance wouldn't arrive in time, hijacking the operation to fix a malformation in Louisa's brain by locking a nervous surgeon he didn't trust in a cupboard, and repairing damage to a farmer's carotid artery (that he and Louisa caused), using items on hand in the farmer's shack in the middle of woods including fishing line and whiskey.
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Doc Martin / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Doc Martin / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: The villagers quickly take to calling Martin "Doc Martin", no matter how many times he insists that it's Doctor Ellingham.
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Doc Martin / int_32c930e8	type	Eccentric Townsfolk
Doc Martin / int_32c930e8	comment	Eccentric Townsfolk: Portwenn is full of these, much to Martin's annoyance.
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Doc Martin / int_331d9f32	type	Silent Snarker
Doc Martin / int_331d9f32	comment	Silent Snarker: Louisa manages an eyeroll at Martin's antics while having brain surgery.
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Doc Martin / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
Doc Martin / int_361a1d26	comment	Lampshaded in Martin's Anguished Declaration of Love at the end of Series 5 when he mentions that one of the things he hates about Portwenn is how the locals have an "unerring knack of catching any virus that comes within a five-mile radius" and their tendency to "spread contagion like a bush fire".
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Doc Martin / int_372027ea	type	Stalker Shrine
Doc Martin / int_372027ea	comment	Stalker Shrine: After developing an obsession on Martin due to a medication issue, Mrs. Tishell constructs one of these in season 5 finale. She tears it down upon her return to Portwenn.
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Doc Martin / int_3840c533	type	Heist Episode
Doc Martin / int_3840c533	comment	Heist Episode: This gets subverted in the season 2 finale â€œOn The Edgeâ€� , Louisaâ€™s father and his friend arrive in Cornwall to pickup a bag of dynamite from a boat offshore in order to break into a warehouse. Their plans get ruined because of an accident and multiple misunderstandings.
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Doc Martin / int_3a234e46	type	Runaway Bride
Doc Martin / int_3a234e46	comment	Runaway Bride: When they first attempt to marry, both Martin and Louisa separately decide not to go through with it, leaving no one at the altar.
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Doc Martin / int_3a95b3cf	type	Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy
Doc Martin / int_3a95b3cf	comment	Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy: Martin has to perform one on Louisa's painter boyfriend using improvised materials. Happens again in Series 7 when a girl gets epiglottitis from a case of strep throat. This time he's got a proper kit, but the procedure is also broadcast over live radio because it happens in the station. A similar instance in the Series 7 finale happens when Martin has to puncture a bloody cyst that's blocking a man's windpipe.
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Doc Martin / int_3ad96278	type	Roadkill for Dinner
Doc Martin / int_3ad96278	comment	Roadkill for Dinner: In the episode "Midwife Crisis", Bert Large's new chef Marigold starts bringing in roadkill to cook, explaining that her family have always eaten it. She initially claims that they only eat animals they've hit themselves, but later, while driving with Bert, she finds a dead rabbit by the side of the road, gives it a good sniff and proclaims it "fresh as a daisy", dismissing Bert's concerns by comparing it to eating a windfall apple. Meanwhile, however, her husband starts to become seriously ill, while she herself becomes fatigued and develops a sore throat; turns out their habit of eating spoiled meat has given them both toxoplasmosis.
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Doc Martin / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Doc Martin / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Louisa's Bible-thumping ex Danny uses a search for a missing child to argue with Martin and then Louisa about if Martin is good for her (translation: Danny wants to get back with her himself). Louisa angrily reminds them why they're out in the woods before storming off to continue the actual search.
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Doc Martin / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Doc Martin / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: In the final episode of Series 1, Peter Cronk, a nine-year old boy who's kind of a loner is told by Louisa that, if you allow people to make fun of you and don't react, then they'll accept you because "they'll see you're okay." Even worse, this Aesop is repeated by the boy to Martin ...who in the same episode had been the victim of a practical joke that wasn't strictly a Deadly Prank, but was still pretty cruel and quickly made him a laughing stock by pretty much everybody in the village, to the point where he was being discussed on local radio. The hard truth is that bullies rarely care about your reactions one way or another; the dynamics of human pack mentality are clear. Notably this was Lampshaded, Deconstructed and ultimately Ignored all in the same episode, as Louisa's advice ends up getting said boy a ruptured spleen for his trouble and rushed into emergency surgery. In the end, she amends her advice to "Some people won't ever fit in, but we should appreciate their uniqueness" (referring to both Peter and Martin) after she says this Louisa and Martin kiss, but after he comments on her breath which he believes might be a sign of a medical problem she throws him out the taxi, forcing him to walk back to the village, dismissing even the amended moral. There's another one played for laughs in an episode where the school's caretaker is kicked out and is sleeping in the school shed. He's delirious from carbon monoxide from a gas heater in a closed area, and has been putting fertilizer on the floors and floor cleaner on the vegetables. One of the teachers is trying to teach the kids the importance of eating fruits and vegetables, when Martin bursts into the room and shouts "Don't eat those! Destroy them immediately!"
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Doc Martin / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Doc Martin / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Series 9 finale. On the positive side, Morwenna and Al's wedding goes well and Louisa is pregnant, but on the negative, Martin is forced to resign from general practice.
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Doc Martin / int_4280d1fd	type	Spock Speak
Doc Martin / int_4280d1fd	comment	Spock Speak: Ellingham, frequently.
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Doc Martin / int_44bed14c	type	Hostage Situation
Doc Martin / int_44bed14c	comment	Hostage Situation: Martin, Louisa, and Pauline are taken hostage by criminal Jonathan who is suffering from untreated bipolar disorder. It ends after about half a dozen others get roped into it, a medical emergency occurs, and Martin completely loses patience with the situation. Again in the final episode of Series 5. Mrs Tishell has a psychotic break and essentially holds James Henry — Martin and Louisa's son — hostage. Martin talks her down. Another episode has a delusional woman take her son, Martin, Penhale, and Ruth hostage, believing the latter was poisoning her with weedkiller. Turns out she was being poisoned, but by the old wallpaper in her bedroom coated in arsenic, which her son had begun to strip but never bothered to finish. Once again in Series 7's finale when a woman takes Martin hostage to find an alternative course of action against her husband's thyroid tumor. She is let go when Penhale and Louisa (And later Ruth and Al) arrive at the house and Martin discovers that it wasn't actually a tumor at all.
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Doc Martin / int_45390a1e	type	Pre-Insanity Reveal
Doc Martin / int_45390a1e	comment	Pre-Insanity Reveal: A downplayed version with PC Penhale, who was by all accounts a competent and professional police officer before he was kicked in the head by a horse and became the goofy, quirky, lovable dullard we all know.
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Doc Martin / int_48d68345	type	ArtisticLicenceMedicine
Doc Martin / int_48d68345	comment	Artistic Licence Medicine: The proper way to take blood is to feel the area you want to take blood from for a suitable vein (usually in the bend of the elbow, the forearm, or the hand.), then place a tourniquet just above the area to make the vein more prominent, and to stop any unnecessary bleeding. Then a thin needle designed for the job is inserted into the vein, a flowback should appear in the needle to let you know whether the vein will give blood, before a vacuum tube is added to the other end of the needle to draw the blood into, when the tube is full (though this isn't necessary for all blood tests, a minimum of 2 mls of blood will suffice unless it is for a Warfarin test, in which case the tube needs to be full), remove tube, needle and tourniquet, then place cotton wool over the area, with pressure to stem bleeding, before everything is then properly tagged, and the needle is disposed of in a special yellow Sharps bin. The Doc Martin way of taking blood, is to stick a needled syringe into the bend of the elbow, not bother with the tourniquet, draw the blood into the syringe and then put some cotton wool over the vague area, and then run through the surgery with the syringe, with the needle still attached.
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Doc Martin / int_497e7df	type	Quirky Doctor
Doc Martin / int_497e7df	comment	Quirky Doctor: Doctor Martin Ellingham is abrasive and arrogant, and generally unsociable. He had also developed a blood phobia, which caused him to have to give up his prestigious surgical practice and become the best damned GP (general practitioner) the village of Portwenn ever had.
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Doc Martin / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Doc Martin / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: From the opening titles, the DOP takes the opinion that any shot with less than three people in it can be improved with moorland or some good Cornish cliffs.
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Doc Martin / int_4b12d2a2	type	Barefoot Captives
Doc Martin / int_4b12d2a2	comment	Barefoot Captives: Doc is kidnapped and held hostage in order to perform surgery on one of the Portwenn's inhabitants (who doesn't even need it). His shoes and socks are stolen (among the other predicaments).
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Doc Martin / int_51a24979	type	The Freelance Shame Squad
Doc Martin / int_51a24979	comment	The Freelance Shame Squad: British TV has seen some terrifying portrayals of youth culture in its time, but none as vile as the pack of Nelson Muntzes endlessly prowling the village. They are the Furies of Portwenn: heartless, unfazed by everything (even gory nail-gun accidents), communicating only in shouts of "Tosser!", and are always nearby to point and laugh at Martin's misfortune.
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Doc Martin / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Doc Martin / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: In the first season, Bert runs Large and Son, but Al leaves fairly early to strike his own path. In the finale, Bert joins Al's bed-and-breakfast business and starts calling them "Large and Son" again.
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Doc Martin / int_55473bc9	type	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
Doc Martin / int_55473bc9	comment	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Morwena manages to revive her grandfather with a good minute and a half worth of this.
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Doc Martin / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
Doc Martin / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: Martin's replacement at the end of season 4 is so stunningly incompetent he feels he has to take over again.
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Doc Martin / int_56f083a1	type	Likes Older Women
Doc Martin / int_56f083a1	comment	Likes Older Women: In one episode, a painter has the hots for Auntie Joan. Martin suspects an Oedipus Complex, and it's later revealed that he's grieving for his dead mother...
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Doc Martin / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Doc Martin / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Averted with PC Mylow, who is socially awkward but still fairly competent. His replacement, PC Penhale, is hopelessly bad at his job. In the series finale, someone has to correct him about the missing persons law being updated to remove the "24 hours" requirement. Lampshaded by Ruth;
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Doc Martin / int_5e7163c9	type	Alternative Character Interpretation
Doc Martin / int_5e7163c9	comment	invokedAlternative Character Interpretation: In the first series, Martin says that his haemophobia was caused by high stress as a trauma surgeon in an inner-city hospital, even relating the tale of first getting it after seeing his patient's family before he had to operate. Ruth's explanation in the sixth series was that it was caused by Martin's mother being neglectful, dismissing the earlier story as self-rationalization.
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Doc Martin / int_5fce7087	type	Safe, Sane, and Consensual
Doc Martin / int_5fce7087	comment	Safe, Sane, and Consensual: A side plot in one episode had Martin see an elderly man with minor scratches and bruises. Martin comes to suspect physical abuse from his wife, and eventually makes a surprise house call where he discovers they actually got into BDSM when looking to spice things up after all their children had moved out.
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Doc Martin / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
Doc Martin / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: In the first episode Bert mentions that there's a few people Martin needs to see, and then proceeds to list practically everyone in the village. The list of medications Dr Dibbs prescribed for herself is insanely long. Ruth lists quite a few symptoms in her self-diagnoses. Martin adds even more — which she doesn't have.
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Doc Martin / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Doc Martin / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Dr. Timoney, a therapist, is often discredited because she is 'young looking'. She is a rather good therapist, though, according to Ruth.
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Doc Martin / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Doc Martin / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Mrs Tishell. Her crush on Martin went from "she's an odd one", to "what're those pills she's taking?", to Stalker Shrine, and finally a full blown psychotic break, which was a bad interaction between two drugs she was taking.
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Doc Martin / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Doc Martin / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The news articles about Martin in Mrs. Tishall's Stalker Shrine. Most of them are about Martin saving someone's life... but she also pinned up one headline reading "Local Doctor Ruins Village Festival Again".
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Doc Martin / int_6492f4ca	type	Spirit Advisor
Doc Martin / int_6492f4ca	comment	Spirit Advisor: Possibly. Martin's dead mother, Margaret, appears inside his crashed car in a snowstorm in the final episode. Zigzagged in that she bluntly tells Martin that she and her husband never loved him, but also warns Martin that his own son is starting to resent him as he did to her when he was little. But as Martin points out, he's suffering hypothermia and believes she's just a hallucination. The show doesn't reveal if she is or not.
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Doc Martin / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Doc Martin / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: At 79 episodes, while not bad for a British series, is still pretty modest for Long Runner of over 18 years.
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Doc Martin / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Doc Martin / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Morwenna reveals to Al in the final episode of the series that she's pregnant.
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Doc Martin / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
Doc Martin / int_6e467916	comment	Tablecloth Yank: Martin does this while treating a patient in the season 8 finale.
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Doc Martin / int_711714da	type	Opposites Attract
Doc Martin / int_711714da	comment	Opposites Attract: Martin and Louisa basically cover every trope in this section at some point.
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Doc Martin / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Doc Martin / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: In the final episode of series 2 "On the Edge", Martin, Louisa and Pauline get taken hostage. When the inspector knocks on the door Martin is sent out to the reception hall to get rid of him. He doesnâ€™t take the opportunity to tell the inspector that he, Louisa and Pauline are being held hostage by a man with a gun and to call the police before sending him away, instead he just sends him away without telling him.
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Doc Martin / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Doc Martin / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Numerous major and minor characters stop appearing and are never mentioned again, including PC Mylow, Elaine, and Pauline.
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Doc Martin / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
Doc Martin / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: The midwife who comes into town for one episode during Louisa's pregnancy. It's hard to believe she even got certified as a midwife when her entire motivation for the job seems to be ranting about how terrible men are. Morwenna gets shades of the trope after she starts reading a self-help book that an American tourist (played by Sigourney Weaver) gave her.
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Doc Martin / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
Doc Martin / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Invoked in the show and referenced in the show's title. The villagers endearingly call him "Doc Martin" though he prefers "Doctor Ellingham". Also, his London name was "Mister Ellingham" (British surgeons are doctors, but they traditionally prefer "Mr"). Mrs. Tishell is rarely called otherwise.
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Doc Martin / int_7a17d1ca	type	Eagleland
Doc Martin / int_7a17d1ca	comment	Eagle Land: Sigourney Weaver plays an American tourist with an entitled "customer is always right" type of attitude who judged her American doctor's skill by how much she had to pay him and is shocked when Martin informs her that the visit to his office carries no charge.
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Doc Martin / int_7ad0e492	type	Imaginary Friend
Doc Martin / int_7ad0e492	comment	Imaginary Friend: Anthony, an invisible 6-foot squirrel to Stewart. In the Spanish version, Migue, an alien from Saturn.
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Doc Martin / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Doc Martin / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: In the Christmas special, the colonel accidentally shoots himself in the leg while walking around with his rifle unbroken and leaving it unattended. Martin is somehow blamed for this. During their honeymoon, Martin and Louisa are held at gunpoint by a farmer who wants them to fix the chicken coop they damaged. Louisa seizes the gun at the first opportunity and threatens the farmer with it, to Martin's dismay. In the finale, Mrs. Winton fires a rifle in her own house to threaten Martin. Later, Penhale grabs it and points it with his finger on the trigger, which you shouldn't do until you're damn well ready to use it. A short time after that, Ruth and Al get their hands on it during their own search and Ruth accidentally blasts the light fixture.
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Doc Martin / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Doc Martin / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: After Martin tells Roger Fenn (in the hospital for throat cancer, about to undergo a surgery that might cost him his voice) about his fear of blood, Fenn promises not to tell anyone. Martin comments that it's not like Fenn will be able to tell anyone soon, anyway. There's a Beat, and then Fenn and Martin both crack up.
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Doc Martin / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Doc Martin / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Morwenna after taking some "energy pills", see Mushroom Samba below.
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Doc Martin / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Doc Martin / int_83cef301	comment	Another episode has a delusional woman take her son, Martin, Penhale, and Ruth hostage, believing the latter was poisoning her with weedkiller. Turns out she was being poisoned, but by the old wallpaper in her bedroom coated in arsenic, which her son had begun to strip but never bothered to finish.
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Doc Martin / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Doc Martin / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: It wouldn't be a medical mystery series if it didn't string you along for most of the episode with hints that the cause is one thing (with sometimes one or two alternatives), and then reveal it to be something else entirely.
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Doc Martin / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
Doc Martin / int_88a97dd4	comment	At the end of season 4, Martin finally breaks down and admits how much Louisa really means to him. Because he's such an emotionally repressed, stuffed shirt normally this becomes both a crowning moment of awesome and a crowning moment of funny as he struggles to put aside his Stiff Upper Lip tendencies and speak from his heart.
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Doc Martin / int_890e2f58	type	Informed Self-Diagnosis
Doc Martin / int_890e2f58	comment	Informed Self-Diagnosis: The "gets it wrong" variant of this trope is done twice. Dr Dibbs' self-diagnosis almost kills her before Martin manages to correct it. Martin's Aunt Ruth diagnoses herself with a terminal illness, listing all the symptoms, but thankfully Martin is on hand to point a couple of symptoms she's missed which means he has to break the bad news that she is going to live as she has something totally different. Martin does this when he starts seeing a therapist in Series 7, but she doesn't correct him since it's plausible enough and it's the first session.
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Doc Martin / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Doc Martin / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: A very disturbing one in the sixth series. A former prisoner whom Ruth had recommended be kept in tracks her to Portwenn, leaves presents in her car and house, and finally shows up while she's there and threatens to kill Martin when he arrives.
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Doc Martin / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Doc Martin / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Annie Winton takes Martin prisoner to cure her cancer-stricken husband. But as he repeatedly tries to point out, he's not an oncologist and he can't do surgery in a farmhouse, especially not when her son made him ditch his medical bag somewhere on the moor. And in the end it turns out if the Wintons had actually gone to the follow-up appointment and done the procedures instead of just losing hope at the initial diagnosis they would have found out it's not cancer, and Mr. Winton could have been treated immediately without anyone waving guns around or getting arrested.
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Doc Martin / int_8dc8a02d	type	Derailing Love Interests
Doc Martin / int_8dc8a02d	comment	Derailing Love Interests: Louisa reunites with her ex-boyfriend, who accepts a job in London after asking her to marry him. So she dumps him because he's disingenuous about living a life together in their beloved village, and not so much because he's an insufferable Jesus freak.
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Doc Martin / int_8e00db94	type	Mystery of the Week
Doc Martin / int_8e00db94	comment	Mystery of the Week: Either a single patient with a strange illness or a town epidemic. Lampshaded in Martin's Anguished Declaration of Love at the end of Series 5 when he mentions that one of the things he hates about Portwenn is how the locals have an "unerring knack of catching any virus that comes within a five-mile radius" and their tendency to "spread contagion like a bush fire".
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Doc Martin / int_8fda1d64	type	Drama Bomb
Doc Martin / int_8fda1d64	comment	Drama Bomb: When Joan is Killed Off for Real at the start of Series 5.
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Doc Martin / int_90138988	type	Putting the "Medic" in Comedic
Doc Martin / int_90138988	comment	Putting the "Medic" in Comedic: Although there aren't many medical staff members, Doc being surrounded by dim-witted patients and their "backward" cultural differences qualifies the show as this.
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Doc Martin / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Doc Martin / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Martin Clunes intentionally puts the slapstick in (i.e. walking into a corner or bonking his head on the doorframe) after his character has been particularly pompous.
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Doc Martin / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Doc Martin / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Caroline Bosman returns in Series 6 after being absent, only to be written out yet again in Series 7. Peter returns as a teenager in Series 7. He's studying to become a doctor and shadows Martin in the surgery — as it turns out, with disastrous consequences. Also returning in Series 7 is Louisa's ex, Danny Steel, who is now leading a religious group for kids. PC Mark Mylow returned for a guest spot in Series 9, as did Penhale's ex-fiancee Janice. Stewart James and Louisa's father Terry Glasson appear in Series 10 after being absent for many years.
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Doc Martin / int_92c112f7	type	Bitter Almonds
Doc Martin / int_92c112f7	comment	Bitter Almonds: Not actually cyanide, but Martin manages to identify the smell of copper arsenite, which is giving a patient of the week arsenic poisoning via a (unintentional) Napoleon's Wallpaper plot.
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Doc Martin / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
Doc Martin / int_952f8f26	comment	Deadly Prank: Averted (see Broken Aesop above), but as Martin pointed out, it did keep him from attending to patients that actually needed his help
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Doc Martin / int_96cc4848	type	"Dear John" Letter
Doc Martin / int_96cc4848	comment	"Dear John" Letter: Bert gets one from Jennifer, the woman he'd romanced and proposed to in the previous series. He gives up his restaurant, sells his van, and is later found by Al being morose in a camper.
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Doc Martin / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
Doc Martin / int_96d2ce42	comment	In Vino Veritas: Double-subverted. Louisa tries this on Martin, but he says that alcohol just makes him sleepy. But then he admits that he loves Louisa. And then he falls asleep.
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Doc Martin / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Doc Martin / int_9ae85487	comment	The Dr. Jerk is played straight in the 4th series with the character of Dr. Edith Montgomery, who not only shares Martin's lack of bedside manner but has even less care or empathy for her patients.
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Doc Martin / int_9b244dd4	type	Getting the Baby to Sleep
Doc Martin / int_9b244dd4	comment	Getting the Baby to Sleep: Series 5 Ep 3, Louisa is so desperate to get her baby to sleep she does all sorts of bizarre dances, and even gets arch-stick-in-the-mud Martin to do one too. The next episode reveals Martin is willing to place the baby in a car and drive right out to the middle of the moor as a way to lull the baby to sleep.
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Doc Martin / int_9bb8ac92	type	Stealing the Credit
Doc Martin / int_9bb8ac92	comment	Stealing the Credit: Morwenna's roommate, Janice, takes credit for saving a lifeboat captain who'd had a stroke when she'd actually spent the entire time panicking and Morwenna did all the first-aid before Martin showed up. Perhaps even funnier is PC Penhale trying to steal the credit from Janice.
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Doc Martin / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Doc Martin / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Pauline's habit of online gambling during surgery downtime is established a number of episodes before it blooms into a full-blown addiction. Aunt Ruth is shown attending Joan's funeral in the episode before she becomes a permanent part of Port Wenn. Mrs. Winton is shown with her husband in the surgery a few episodes before she kidnaps Martin in the finale for that series.
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Doc Martin / int_9d70c212	type	Sassy Secretary
Doc Martin / int_9d70c212	comment	Sassy Secretary: Elaine. Mostly averted with Pauline, though she really "wants" to be one. Entirely averted with Pauline's stand-in, Poppy, and Morwenna who is just trying to keep her job in Series 5, though after receiving help from a tourist, grows more of a backbone.
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Doc Martin / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Doc Martin / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In the final episode of Series 7, Janice suggests that the legendary Beast of Bodmin got Martin, which Louisa dismisses as a ginned-up "legend" for tourists that happened years ago. The first of the two BSkyB movies the series originated from involved the legend in its plot.
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Doc Martin / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
Doc Martin / int_9f80e1da	comment	Martin's Aunt Ruth diagnoses herself with a terminal illness, listing all the symptoms, but thankfully Martin is on hand to point a couple of symptoms she's missed which means he has to break the bad news that she is going to live as she has something totally different.
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Doc Martin / int_9fb5d589	type	Not Now, Kiddo
Doc Martin / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: A semi-frequent occurrence is for one of the schoolchildren to display symptoms or strange behavior, while their parents and/or teachers to dismiss it as a minor cold or "being difficult" until it becomes a medical emergency. When Ruth tells Martin that she thinks someone is stalking her, he brushes it off.
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Doc Martin / int_a3026af9	type	Wedding Smashers
Doc Martin / int_a3026af9	comment	Wedding Smashers: Unusually, the wedding itself goes off almost seamlessly (partly due to Martin and Louisa escaping early while they're ahead); the honeymoon, on the other hand, sees their cottage rendered unusable by a blocked chimney and their luggage lost; they get lost attempting to walk home and held at gunpoint by an irascible farmer insisting they fix a chicken coop they broke, and then have to stitch him up after an unlikely accident severs an artery and carry him back to town in a wheelbarrow.
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Doc Martin / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Doc Martin / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Done deliberately as part of the format, every episode will contain one dark, serious and weighty storyline, and one light Quirky Town style story. They will then interleave throughout the episode, often with both story lines crossing through the same scene, and leaving the viewer pretty wrung out emotionally by the end.
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Doc Martin / int_a7ddc88e	type	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes
Doc Martin / int_a7ddc88e	comment	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Ruth diagnoses herself as having Lupus. Martin has to practically wrestle her into surgery, and once he does, he can tell at a glance that she's suffering from a simple autoimmune disease. To say nothing of Mrs. Tishell's cocktail of self-prescribed drugs... Dr. Dibbs is stunningly incompetent in treating herself, on a massive amount of self-prescribed medication and misses an almost fatal diagnosis. She's barely any better with her patients. Given that she spent over 20 years working as a nurse without any problem, it's heavily implied the only reason Dr Dibbs is such a nervous wreck is because her husband pushed her to become a Doctor and she cracked under the pressure.
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Doc Martin / int_a823fa03	type	The Un-Smile
Doc Martin / int_a823fa03	comment	In Series 3, he very briefly tries on a newer, jocular attitude to impress Louisa. Of course this only manages to creep people out even further, and the patients continue to disregard his advice anyway. He can't win.
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Doc Martin / int_a8a0603e	type	Juggling Loaded Guns
Doc Martin / int_a8a0603e	comment	Juggling Loaded Guns: PC Penhale gets sent a pistol-style taser in one episode and spends the entire episode pointing it at people and things before panicking during a mild altercation and tasing a complete bystander.
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Doc Martin / int_a929d574	type	Doctor's Orders
Doc Martin / int_a929d574	comment	Doctor's Orders: Doc Martin is routinely frustrated by patients ignoring his advice and doing what they want. One woman nearly kills herself trying to function with a herniated vertebra.
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Doc Martin / int_a9e84230	type	Funny Schizophrenia
Doc Martin / int_a9e84230	comment	Funny Schizophrenia: Averted with the park ranger Stewart. Certainly, on the surface it sounds amusing: He has delusions of having a six-foot red squirrel as a friend, and that grey and red squirrels are locked in a brutal conflict. However, the character is at first played brilliantly in a way which keeps both Martin and the viewer uncertain about how unstable and dangerous he might be if you don't go along with him. Second, it soon comes clear that Stewart is suffering from PTSD and the delusions are a coping mechanism. He fought in Bosnia and took a bullet from friendly fire. Later he is shown having a breakdown, screaming about how dangerous and uncertain the world can be for squirrels, but it is clear he is externalizing his own feelings and his war experiences left him a broken, fragile man.
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Doc Martin / int_a9f8a98b	type	Licked by the Dog
Doc Martin / int_a9f8a98b	comment	Licked by the Dog: Martin in basically every episode much to his displeasure. Some episodes almost use the dog as a link.
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Doc Martin / int_aa4cbf9a	type	My Local
Doc Martin / int_aa4cbf9a	comment	The Local: The Crab and Lobster.
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Doc Martin / int_aba5e1d1	type	Pluto Is Expendable
Doc Martin / int_aba5e1d1	comment	Pluto Is Expendable: In "Education, Education, Education", the student selected to be Pluto in an outdoors roleplaying of the Solar System ends up losing consciousness to Kawasaki Disease, sustained from an infection, and has to be rushed to hospital to save her life.
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Doc Martin / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Doc Martin / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Martin on occasion but bluntness and Lack of Empathy are a more common way of him dealing with people.
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Doc Martin / int_afdcce7e	type	Instant Birth: Just Add Labor!
Doc Martin / int_afdcce7e	comment	Instant Birth: Just Add Labor!: Louisa, less than half an hour passes between her waters breaking and delivery.
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Doc Martin / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Doc Martin / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Al does a radio interview to try and promote his fishing tours and B&B, but gets hung up on clarifying that Morwenna is not his girlfriend, nor is Ruth, and gives curt one-word answers when the host tries getting him to elaborate on his business.
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Doc Martin / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Doc Martin / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: One of Martin's great sources of frustration is just how many of his patients fail to follow his instructions in ways that are life-threatening, like insisting on working when they're recovering from a dangerous infection or injury. As well as the number of people who try self-medication, like when Mr Tishell gives himself a heart attack in Season 7 due to combining potassium supplements and testosterone boosters (both of which he was taking against Martin's orders). Usually it's Martin's skill as a doctor that's the only reason that keeps such actions from actually being fatal. The married couple Mr. and Mrs. Rix from the first episode of season 2 "Old Dogs" who choose to behave suspiciously and try to hide from Martin that they have introduced BDSM into their love life and are continuing to engage in it even when the husband has become so injured that he canâ€™t work.
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Doc Martin / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Doc Martin / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: After being left virtually penniless, Martin's mother, in series six, moves to Portwenn intent on invoking this trope.
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Doc Martin / int_b7475a74	type	Bothering by the Book
Doc Martin / int_b7475a74	comment	Bothering by the Book: You might say that he's a Martin-et. (Rim shot)
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Doc Martin / int_ba26aa0d	type	Teeny Weenie
Doc Martin / int_ba26aa0d	comment	Teeny Weenie: Played for drama with absolutely no humor in one episode. Martin discovers that PC Mylow has an abnormally small penis and testicles, then has him tested, which reveals he's got a condition that means he's infertile. Then Mylow's girlfriend tells him she's pregnant. Mylow is understandably quite upset.
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Doc Martin / int_bc1faa80	type	Mirror Scare
Doc Martin / int_bc1faa80	comment	Mirror Scare: Aunt Ruth gets stalked by one of her former patients, until when at home she adjusts the mirror and he's right behind her.
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Doc Martin / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Doc Martin / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Almost. Ellingham and Louisa have a difficult on-again-off-again relationship, conceive a baby, almost marry, and reconcile in the final episode of season 4.
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Doc Martin / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Doc Martin / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Annie and Clemo, the wife and son who kidnap Martin and force him to operate on their dying husband/father. Martin saves the man, but the both of them will definitely be going to jail for their actions, rendering them unable to be with their loved one.
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Doc Martin / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Doc Martin / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: By the beginning of each episode the majority of the village has forgotten that Doc Martin is usually right with his medical advice or diagnoses and continuously disregard him because of it. He sought therapy to correct it in season 4 and seemed to be over it by season 5, however in season 6 he started to have problems with blood again. This comes to a climax in Series 8, where he faints after a patient herself faints and loses a lot of blood due to hitting her head. This causes her to complain and almost costs Martin his career.
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Doc Martin / int_c4500946	type	Break His Heart to Save Him
Doc Martin / int_c4500946	comment	Break Her Heart To Save Her: An old flame of Joan's tries to do this by claiming he's married since Martin has predicted he has between six and twelve months to live, and he doesn't want to make her suffer when he dies.
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Doc Martin / int_c631f304	type	We Want Our Jerk Back!
Doc Martin / int_c631f304	comment	We Want Our Jerk Back!: After Martin resigns to go to London at the end of season 4 he is replaced by the lovely, sweet, and patient Dr Dibbs. She's so bad at the job that it's a relief to get grumpy old Martin back.
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Doc Martin / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Doc Martin / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Stewart James, who has delusions involving a giant squirrel, is named after the actor Jimmy Stewart, who famously played a man who has delusions (or are they?) involving a giant rabbit. Martin was locked in the cupboard under the stairs as a child.
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Doc Martin / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Doc Martin / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: After their surprise pregnancy, both Martin and Louisa get some guff. He for not doing the right thing and marrying her, her for having had sex and being Defiled Forever. Her pregnancy cost her a job in London, and the town pharmacist is snippy about it due to her own crush on Ellingham.
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Doc Martin / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Doc Martin / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In the Christmas episode, Martin's dead mother appears beside him in his crashed car and has a conversation with him, admitting that she and her husband never loved Martin and warning him that James is already starting to resent him like Martin did when he was a boy. However, Martin points out that he's suffering from hypothermia and says that she's a hallucination. The show doesn't indicate.
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Doc Martin / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Doc Martin / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Auntie Joan dies of a heart attack offscreen during the hiatus between seasons 4 and 5. Season 6 saw the offscreen death of Martin's estranged father. Season 6 also revealed that Morwenna's grandfather passed away between seasons. Clive Tishall, Mrs. Tishall's husband, dies of a fatal heart attack in the eighth season. Ken, the pub's manager in season 9. Martin's mother, Margret, dies off-screen of a heart attack in the final episode of the series.
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Doc Martin / int_d13e0db3	type	Heartbeat Soundtrack
Doc Martin / int_d13e0db3	comment	Heartbeat Soundtrack: Featured whenever Martin's haemophobia comes up.
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Doc Martin / int_d1b4f0ef	type	Everybody Lives
Doc Martin / int_d1b4f0ef	comment	Everybody Lives: More or less - the Doc has never lost a patient when anything could possibly be done about it. He once walks into a bedroom to find a woman in the midst of a stroke and she dies before he's even finished phoning an ambulance.
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Doc Martin / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Doc Martin / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Martin's aunts Joan Norton and Ruth Ellingham. They're two of the only people in the world that he listens to, and the latter is the only person who can out-snark him.
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Doc Martin / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
Doc Martin / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: "Oh for God's sake!" Shouted by Martin in exasperation whenever someone does something particularly stupid, often the exact opposite of his instructions as their doctor. Martin often tells patients "Stop talking" while examining or treating them. Justified, since he needs them to keep still and quiet.
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Doc Martin / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Doc Martin / int_d332bf54	comment	Notably this was Lampshaded, Deconstructed and ultimately Ignored all in the same episode, as Louisa's advice ends up getting said boy a ruptured spleen for his trouble and rushed into emergency surgery. In the end, she amends her advice to "Some people won't ever fit in, but we should appreciate their uniqueness" (referring to both Peter and Martin) after she says this Louisa and Martin kiss, but after he comments on her breath which he believes might be a sign of a medical problem she throws him out the taxi, forcing him to walk back to the village, dismissing even the amended moral.
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Doc Martin / int_d34f8215	type	Coattail-Riding Relative
Doc Martin / int_d34f8215	comment	Given that she spent over 20 years working as a nurse without any problem, it's heavily implied the only reason Dr Dibbs is such a nervous wreck is because her husband pushed her to become a Doctor and she cracked under the pressure.
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Doc Martin / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Doc Martin / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The other characters usually expect Doc Martin to be more empathetic and active in the community, however when he offers medical advice they often ignore him.
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Doc Martin / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Doc Martin / int_d66cd0e6	comment	In the final episode of Series 1, Peter Cronk, a nine-year old boy who's kind of a loner is told by Louisa that, if you allow people to make fun of you and don't react, then they'll accept you because "they'll see you're okay." Even worse, this Aesop is repeated by the boy to Martin ...who in the same episode had been the victim of a practical joke that wasn't strictly a Deadly Prank, but was still pretty cruel and quickly made him a laughing stock by pretty much everybody in the village, to the point where he was being discussed on local radio. The hard truth is that bullies rarely care about your reactions one way or another; the dynamics of human pack mentality are clear.
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Doc Martin / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Doc Martin / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: The locals use "Bodmin" (as in Bodmin Moor) as a catch all term for "crazy".
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Doc Martin / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Doc Martin / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: What is the reaction to a man giving a testicular exam to a policeman holding a baby, in a public lavatory?
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Doc Martin / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Doc Martin / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Joan and Ruth are this to Martin in a sense, having both known him since childhood and therefore being fully understanding of his personality and the reasons for it. They're also the people he's most likely to listen to.
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Doc Martin / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Doc Martin / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The Wintons appear a few episodes into Series 7, when Mr. Winton has a tumor on his neck and Mrs. Winton displays both an absolute refusal to go to the hospital and pure desperation for Martin to cure him. Guess who causes the crisis in the series finale.
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Doc Martin / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
Doc Martin / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: After her friend gets a nasty cut on the arm, Louisa's mother has him keep it below the heart. This is the opposite of what should be done; keeping it above the heart reduces the bloodflow somewhat. Peter (now in high school), is studying to be a doctor and tries treating a woman's cyst by bashing it with a heavy book (in fairness, Martin did the exact same thing in "The Wrong Goodbye" with better consequences, albeit with the medical training to back it up). Then it's revealed that Peter's falsely obtained beta blockers to treat his mother's panic attacks while also letting her take St. John's Wort, thinking that the latter is a harmless placebo. They turn out to combine nastily and have potentially life-threatening consequences.
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Doc Martin / int_de32093	type	Injection Plot
Doc Martin / int_de32093	comment	Injection Plot: The episode "Remember Me" is about Martin trying to give his new receptionist Morwenna a tetanus shot, even though she is Afraid of Needles. Eventually he gets her to take it by describing what would happen if she doesn't get a shot.
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Doc Martin / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
Doc Martin / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: Martin has one with his dead mother in the final episode. However, as he points out, he's suffering from hypothermia and says she's just a hallucination. Whether she is or not is left up to the viewer.
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Doc Martin / int_e4400c35	type	CloudCuckooLand
Doc Martin / int_e4400c35	comment	Cloud Cuckooland: Portwenn, The community of the village seems to be mostly made up of or attract Cloudcuckoolanders. Most of the comedy comes from Doc Martin having to deal with ignorant (wilful or otherwise) quirky, and sometimes horrible characters.
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Doc Martin / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
Doc Martin / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": Series Five, Ep 2, plays this to the hilt with Joan's funeral. The hearse is late, the guests are weird (even weirder than normal), the pall-bearers drop the coffin, Martin turns Joan's eulogy into a medical case history presentation-cum-public health lecture, the local police constable bemoans dealing with simple heart attacks and not something exciting, someone's mobile phone goes off playing "things can only get better" as a ring-tone. The usual for Portwenn really. Meanwhile, the cause of the aforementioned coffin drop is late for the surgery to fix his bad back because the burning of an unspecified dead body had been pushed forward one day at almost the last minute.
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Doc Martin / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Doc Martin / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Doc Martin's parents. Especially his mother, who is one of the worst mothers in British television. Picture Delores Umbridge with the Personality of The Wicked Stepmother from Snow White and the Dress Sense of Cruella de Vil. Every scene she is in she is doing something horrible, she resents Martin for existing, Aunt Ruth calls her a Monster and Martin pretty much disowns her after she steals his clock for money, she is also an awful mother in law. His father is only slightly more likable but he dies after his first appearance so we don't see as much of him. Even after her death, Margaret - as a hallucination (possibly) - is still a cold-hearted woman, bluntly telling Martin that she never loved him. However, she does warn Martin that he needs to pay more attention to his son, James, so that he doesn't resent him as Martin resented her. Edith Montgomery is a selfish, cold, elitist, borderline racist, former love interest of Martin who unsuccessfully tries to have sex with him. Mark Mylowâ€™s sister Sandra, a herbalist who think her treatments are superior to traditional medicine and is condescending and obnoxious to both her own brother and Doc Martin. Julie Mitchell, who is revealed to actually be a false identity when a man from the Salvation Army arrives in the village searching for a woman named Emma Lewis who fits her description, when Martin sees that her results show she is pregnant too early she threatens to sue him if he tells PC Mark Mylow, who she was only marrying as a cover. Mickey Mabley from Season 3 is a thug, he takes advantage of Bert Large's naivetÃ© and is possibly a paedophile
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Doc Martin / int_e7fd5cdc	type	Brain Bleach
Doc Martin / int_e7fd5cdc	comment	Brain Bleach: Martin invokes this when he walks in on Joan having sex with a man, 50 years her junior, on the kitchen table.
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Doc Martin / int_ea44cd34	type	Britain Is Only London
Doc Martin / int_ea44cd34	comment	Britain Is Only London: Averted. Britain is London AND Cornwall.
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Doc Martin / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
Doc Martin / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: Martin's mother insists on calling Louisa "Louise" despite being corrected multiple times.
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Doc Martin / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Doc Martin / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: PC Penhale for PC Mylow. Originally Pauline for Elaine, though since Pauline runs for three seasons she has a rather well developed, unique character. Morwenna is very much one for Pauline, though. Averted with the replacement for Aunt Joan, Martin's Aunt Ruth is a very different person. When the anonymous black sheepdog disappears, Joan gets a dog that takes just as much of an unwelcome liking to Martin. After the radio host, Caroline, is sectioned (off screen) she is replaced by another, similar radio host.
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Doc Martin / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Doc Martin / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Louisa's ex-boyfriend. He's an insufferable Jesus-freak who tries to come between Louisa and Martin. She dumps him because he lied about wanting to live in Portwen in his first appearance, but he tries to separate them again when he returns in Season 7 while still spouting sanctimonious religious lines.
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Doc Martin / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Doc Martin / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: In Series 5, after noticing bouts of hyperactive behaviour, Martin fires his new receptionist for taking drugs. It later finds out that the "energy pills" her grandfather had given her were actually 70-year-old metamphetamines from his WWII ration kit. Both assumed they were safe because it had the Government stamp on, after all... the Government wouldn't give out something that was bad for you.
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Doc Martin / int_f8b893e5	type	Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
Doc Martin / int_f8b893e5	comment	Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Bert Large tends towards these, though on a mild scale. Examples include bottled water (that sickens the village) and trying to organize a birdwatching tour for one pair of rare birds on an inaccessible bit of cliff. After he opens his restaurant, he sticks to constantly reworking the menu and theme, and trying to expand the business. When he gives up on the restaurant, he goes back to this and starts building a still.
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Doc Martin / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Doc Martin / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The dog that follows Martin around. After the first one, who is unnamed in the show passes away he is replaced by Joan's dog, Buddy. Martin bonking his head on Portwenn's low doorways. The "tosser" girls Whenever Martin crashes his car, the air bag deploys...10 seconds after it should.
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Doc Martin / int_faa71569	type	Romantic False Lead
Doc Martin / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead: Edith Montgomery, Martin's old girlfriend from medical school. She seems like a good match for him, sharing his disdain for most people and not bothered by his unemotive, blunt personality. However, her dismissive attitude towards her patients extends to their care as well as their emotions, so Martin leaves.
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Doc Martin / int_fb5ab090	type	Loan Shark
Doc Martin / int_fb5ab090	comment	Loan Shark: It turns out that Bert has had to go to some loan sharks to keep his restaurant afloat.
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Doc Martin / int_fd5603b	type	MacGyvering
Doc Martin / int_fd5603b	comment	MacGyvering: If the situation calls for it, Martin will use anything suitable around him to treat a patient, such as during his honeymoon when he scrubs up with a bottle of whiskey and temporarily repairs a farmer's carotid artery with a razorblade and fishing line before putting him in a wheelbarrow and pushing him part of the way to the hospital until there's an opportunity to hitchhike. When other characters try this, it almost never goes right. Examples include Penhale treating a self-inflicted gunshot wound on his foot with moss (as per his survival guide) but without drying it or cleaning it first, Bert trying to temporarily fix a fused switch with a random piece of metal; leading to a woman suffering a shock serious enough to stop her heart.
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Doc Martin / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
Doc Martin / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: Martin and Louisa. Even after they decide to get married... they then jilt each other. And when they successfully tie the knot, the tension is enough that Louisa takes a solo vacation. To some extent, Pauline and Al. Even later, Morwenna and Al as well as PC Penhale and Janice.
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Doc Martin / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Doc Martin / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Martin tells PC Penhale that his brother is displaying some of the symptoms of Huntington's disease. Penhale has a panic attack and Martin shuts him up by agreeing to give him a blood test. Penhale says of his blood that "Oh no! It looks Huntington-y!"
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Doc Martin / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Doc Martin / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Martin writes a prescriptionnote vitamin pills, the same type of which PC Mylow purchased, believing they were male enhancement pills to the town's ranger, a traumatized war veteran who suffers a mental breakdown (and even has a six-foot-tall squirrel as an imaginary friend) without his placebo medication, although Martin only does this after the ranger starts tearing apart the backyard of one of Portwenn's residents. Later, he does the samenote with breath mints, which he claims to the girl will stimulate her breast growth for a teenage girl who is suffering largely from being a teenager, after she explains her misery with being teased by her friends because she's underdeveloped.
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