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Airdate: Doc Martin

There’s some new Doc Martin coming to ABC.

At 7:30pm Saturday March 8, ABC screens “On the Edge,” a feature-length 2006 Christmas special which it will divide into two episodes.

The second part screens a week later.

The series, starring Martin Clunes as GP in the sleepy Cornwall town of Portwenn, attracted excellent Saturday audiences last year and proved something of a headache to commercial networks.

No word yet if ABC continues with new episodes thereafter.

Press Release:

The tactless and curmudgeonly Dr Martin Ellingham continues to cause unrest among the villagers of the pretty Cornwall village of Portwenn in this two-part special of the award-winning comedy drama…..

The doc is taken hostage by a madman with a gun, attacked with an ice cream cone and pelted by fresh baked Cornish pasties.

The peace of the village is shattered by an invasion of tourists, eager for a sighting of a rare bird discovered nesting on Doc Martin’s Aunt Joan’s land. Village plumber Bert Large tips off the local baker, who seizes the chance to revive his ailing business by making it a new attraction.

Meanwhile, Doc Martin tries to head off a food contamination scare, continues to fumble his attempts at romancing the lovely schoolmistress Louisa, and looks like losing his eccentric receptionist, Pauline.

And his practice is threatened by an interfering doctor’s friend who is gathering bad reports from disgruntled patients.

Louisa’s father, Terry, returns to the village after years away. He left under a cloud of suspected theft and now has hatched a scheme with a dodgy colleague, Jonathon Crozier, to smuggle in explosives to use in a robbery.

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