{"id":6593,"date":"2011-01-26T15:16:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T21:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2017-08-02T17:52:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T22:52:40","slug":"doc-martin-television-series-very-cozy-and-quirky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/doc-martin-television-series-very-cozy-and-quirky\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc Martin Television Series: Very Cozy (and Quirky!)…"},"content":{"rendered":"

My daughter, husband, and I are huge fans of Doc Martin<\/em>, a fabulously quirky and funny British television series. The series (not a mystery series)\u00a0is\u00a0set in the present day on a quaint, and beyond\u00a0beautiful little coastal village. The only problem that we had in watching Doc Martin<\/em> is that we had to wait between\u00a0season one<\/a>\u00a0(2004),\u00a0season two<\/a>\u00a0(2005\/2006),\u00a0three<\/a>\u00a0(2007), and\u00a0four’s<\/a> (2009) release dates! (And, we are now waiting for season five!!!)<\/p>\n

Doc Martin<\/em> (played faultlessly by Martin Clunes) is\u00a0simply put… a\u00a0 curmudgeon. I don’t want to give away too much, so I will just say that he is a brilliant surgeon who has given up his London practice to move to the aforementioned beautiful coastal village. He has done this to become the village general practitioner.<\/p>\n

Doc Martin is not only eccentric\/neurotic and impersonal – but he even hates dogs! (For those of you dog-lovers who are fans of Martin Clunes, you’ll be happy to know that he loves dogs so much, he hosted\u00a0a series called Martin Clunes: A Man and His Dogs<\/em> and he has authored the bestselling A Dog’s Life<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

Caroline Catz costars as the absolutely delightful teacher\/principal of the village elementary\/primary school. Also, Stephanie Cole (from Waiting for God<\/em>) plays Martin’s (yes, Martin is his first name >>> the villagers refuse to call him Dr. Ellingham!) often-times exacerbated aunt, his source of unconditional love during his youth. Also wonderful in their roles are: his receptionists (Elaine Denham & Pauline Lamb), the local police (Stewart Wright & John Marquez), the father and son plumbers\u00a0(Ian McNeice &\u00a0Joe Absolom), and the local pharmacist (Selina Cadell).<\/p>\n

I highly recommend the Doc Martin<\/em> series. The locale is gorgeous, the characters are three-dimensional, the plots are clever and absolutely never dull or slow-paced, and the acting is superb.<\/p>\n

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My daughter, husband, and I are huge fans of Doc Martin, a fabulously quirky and funny British television series. The series (not a mystery series)\u00a0is\u00a0set in the present day on a quaint, and beyond\u00a0beautiful little coastal village. The only problem that we had in watching Doc Martin is that we had to wait between\u00a0season one\u00a0(2004),\u00a0season […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-british-moviestv-shows","7":"category-moviestv-shows","8":"category-tv","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-1Il","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33894,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions\/33894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}