Tristan Sturrock

There's more than one way to tell a good story, and Doc Martin is no exception. Before the hit series launched in 2004, two made-for-TV movies introduced the main character and the picturesque Cornish fishing village of Port Isaac (later called Portwenn).

The shocking true story of an English farmer who shot and killed a teenage burglar and spurred a nation towards a conversation on self-defense.

In 1943 a refugee doctor from Nazi Germany uses new methods to rehabilitate those with spinal injuries in Great Britain. Their big breakthrough comes when Guttmann introduces sport into their rehabilitation.