[S10E6] Return To Sender
Sadly, Doc Martin season 10 is the final ever series of the Martin Clunes hit drama. So, it will be bittersweet for fans when the show returns on ITV in autumn 2022, then ends with a Christmas special.
[S10E6] Return to Sender
Martin Clunes who's played grumpy Dr Martin Ellingham for nearly two decades says: I have loved going to Cornwall to make Doc Martin over the last 18 years, and I have looked forward to returning to this beautiful county this year for the tenth and final series. The people of Cornwall, and Port Isaac in particular, have always been so helpful to us when we are making the series.
Martin learns that he is under investigation for rude and condescending behaviour with the end result that he may have to attend a 2-week course to improve his people skills. Pauline advises Martin that he will have to find a new receptionist, as she is returning to university to study nursing. Auntie Joan is accidentally shot in her foot by Colonel Gilbert Spencer, who is excited about the rare birds nesting in the cliffs above her home. Bert Large sees the nestings as a golden opportunity to run guided tours in a borrowed police van.[12] Al Large, meanwhile, decides to strike out on his own as a plumber, to prove his worth to Pauline, whom he asks to move in with him. She discovers he forgot to mail her university application.
Hotel owner Carrie Wilson (Louise Delamere) has her sights on Martin much to Louisa's chagrin. Martin later accidentally runs over and kills Wilson's dog with his car. Joan has an admirer in painter Edward Melville (Justin Salinger), who is 30 years younger than she. Martin walks in on them having sexual relations in her home. He and Joan later quarrel over his objections to the relationship. Melville later collapses at Wilson's hotel, diagnosed by Martin as having overdosed on medication prescribed for erectile dysfunction. Al Large returns after a lengthy trip to Africa, telling Martin he was robbed of all his possessions during his trip. Pauline finds Al collapsed on the floor of his apartment. Martin diagnoses him with sleeping sickness, the result of having been bitten by Tsetse flies while in Africa.[15][18]
Pauline's gambling addiction finally comes to a head after she is so distracted that she mixes up patient records, and her scooter is repossessed. Al Large insists to Martin that Pauline fully paid for the scooter with her gambling winnings. After an explosive confrontation in Martin's office with Dawn over Pauline's using her credit card for her gambling, Martin orders her mother out of the office and insists Pauline get professional help with her addiction or be fired from his employ. He makes her return money that Al loaned her to get her scooter back.
Mrs. Tishell's hearing-impaired husband Clive (Malcolm Storry), presumed long-dead by Martin, returns. Barbara has a bicycle accident as she tries to avoid hitting Clive, who was unable to hear her coming up behind him. After Mrs. Tishell pokes him in the ear, drawing blood, he visits Martin, who tells him a specialist can perform an operation to recover his hearing. Martin's ex-girlfriend Dr. Edith Montgomery (Lia Williams) attends to Barbara, and immediately come to a disagreement with Martin over the patient's need for an operation. Without clearing it with Montgomery, Martin orders an abdoiminal scan and saves Barbara from having unnecessary surgery.
When a pregnant Louisa shows up unannounced at Martin's flat, she sees Dr. Edith Montgomery sitting at the kitchen table. He suddenly finds himself struggling to deal with his expectant fatherhood, but Louisa is adamant she does not want Martin involved with the raising of their child. She applies for a job back at Portwenn Primary School, where her replacement headmaster Mr Strain (David Haig) is creating suspicion and public concern over his increasingly erratic behavior. Strain is renting out Louisa's house, and he becomes convinced that she has returned to reclaim her old position at the school. At the hospital, Louisa ends up under the care of Dr. Montgomery, who is inquisitive about Louisa's motive for her re-appearance in Portwenn .
Sally Tadwick (Sara Weymouth) the school secretary has just returned from a vacation in Spain and visits Martin to ask for medication to treat an infection from her new tattoo. Mr. and Mrs. McLynn (Benjamin Whitrow, Phyllida Law) visit Martin to get medical verification for a disabled parking badge for Mr. McLynn, claiming the disability is recent enough to qualify under regulations. Martin refuses and checks with Mrs. Tishell to learn Mr. McLynn has been disabled for seven years.[22] The McLynn's agree to pay for the damage when they crash into Auntie Joan's car, if the police are not informed. Mrs. McLynn has been losing her sight for years due to macular degeneration, but she drives anyway, and later hits PC Penhale with her car.
Martin Ellingham's plans to resume his career as a consultant in London are put on hold following the birth of the (as yet, un-named) son he fathered with his now estranged partner, Louisa Glasson. When he returns, he is given the news that Auntie Joan had a heart attack and died at the wheel of her parked car.
After Ruth gives Al 800 to pay for fencing on her farm, he instead uses the money to get Bert out of the clutches of the loan sharks. Together with the 200 Bert already had, they can repay the 1,000 to the loan sharks. However, the sharks say he still owes another 350 for interest and late payment charge. Ruth is upset when Al tells her what he did with her 800, but Al later offers her a percentage of the restaurant profits to repay his debt to her. After Mrs. Dingle collapses, Penhale tends to her while waiting for Martin to arrive. While Martin is tending Mrs. Dingle, Penhale hears Al, Bert and the loan sharks arguing, and orders the Tonkens to leave town and never return.
Dr Timoney suggests that perhaps Martin and Louisa are not meant to be a couple. She asks them to both make a list of why they should stay together, and return for another session with her. Dr. Timoney is later involved in a car accident outside the school. While picking up something from Mrs. Tishell, she gossips about Martin's and Louisa's marriage troubles. Martin believes she might have head damage from the accident, and tells her she needs a CT scan.
Buddy the dog has attracted the companionship of another dog, and now Martin is frustrated about the two dogs hanging around and barking. Mary Rawlings (Marlene Sidaway) pays a visit to the doc where nothing seems to be wrong, and returns the next day to say something is wrong with her ankles. He once again tells her there is nothing wrong, and has no sympathy when she says she's been lonely since her dog died. Martin makes her a gift of the dog that has been hanging around Buddy, but Buddy is now lonely.
Louisa is shocked and Martin suspicious by the unannounced return of her father. Ruth is helping Martin with his blood phobia when she discovers his predicament, and an unexpected caravan squatter thwarts Bert's dreams of making a quick buck.
The much-loved, national institution Doc Martin sees Martin Clunes (Men Behaving Badly, Warren) take to our screens as a doctor treating and challenging the community of the idyllic hamlet of Portwenn in Cornwall with a brusque bedside manner and an unfortunate phobia. Along the way, he's joined by a charming...Doc Martin - Complete Series Ten DVDMartin Clunes returns as the eponymous Doc Martin in a tenth and final series of the hit ITV comedy drama. 041b061a72