"Doc Martin" is a popular television series about a surly London surgeon practicing family medicine in one of the most beautiful villages on the British Isles: Port Wenn, Cornwall, England.
I saw "The Family Way" again on PBS the other night.
This episode tells Doc Martin’s unhappy childhood. It explains why Dr. Martin Ellingham (by Martin Clune) was so inapt when dealing with others. He was a most competent and conscious medical doctor. But he was a pain as far as his mannerism was concerned. When his estranged parents came to sort out some family finance with his aunt in Port Wenn, his mother told him it was he who ruined her marriage to his father, also a surgeon. This was the reason why they sent him to study in boarding schools and to spend summer holidays with Auntie Joan in Port Wenn.
Yet in the same Port Wenn’s charming neighborhood, one of Doc Martin’s patients and her boyfriend, a music teacher, found great joy when they were told that they were expecting a set of twins.
Unfortunately, the series on "Doc Martin" had ceased production after three successful seasons. - Ayee
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