Lynsey Baxter

When two actors star in a movie about a love affair in nineteenth-century England, their off-screen life starts to resemble the film’s plot.

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).