Successful surgeon Dr. Martin Ellingham leaves his London practice to become general practitioner in a sleepy fishing village. But his luxury car, lavish wardrobe and abrasive attitude immediately rub the locals the wrong way….
Doc Martin turns his back on life as a celebrated London surgeon and moves to a coastal village to become the local doctor. Despite his surgical brilliance, the doc lacks any interpersonal skills and his bedside manner soon starts to upset his new patients. Doc Martin finds the surgery in disarray – the medical equipment is beyond repair, and the patients’ records are a mess. To top it all he inherits the world’s most incompetent receptionist, Elaine Denham, who clearly resents him moving in. The community is united in horror at their foul new GP. Doc Martin soon finds he needs all the allies he can get as he tries to negotiate his way around village life with hilarious consequences.