Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Acorn Media
• DVD Release Date: August 30, 2011
• Run Time: 162 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (115 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0050N0UR0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,302 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

“Absolutely bloody hilarious”—London Evening Standard

“Thoroughly charming” —The Guardian (UK)

He’s surly, self-centered, rude, and uptight—but he’s the only doctor in town. Martin Clunes (Men Behaving Badly) stars as Doc Martin, a hotshot London surgeon forced to change careers when he develops a fear of blood. Relocating to a sleepy, scenic Cornish fishing village, he offends everyone in town and falls in love with a beautiful teacher. Collection includes the first 4 seasons of this wildly popular Britcom seen on public television.

Disc 1

Doc Martin

After learning that his wife has been cheating on him, Doctor Martin Bamford impetuously leaves London for a week in a coastal village he visited as a child. Charmed by the scenery and the locals, he stays longer than he planned, makes friends, learns to fish, and helps solve a mystery.

 

Disc 2

Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie

Now settled in as the local G.P., Doc Martin longs for privacy. Everyone in the village knows everything about his life. He wants to buy a large, isolated farm, but his plans fall through when a London family swoops in. To secure his dream home, the doctor uses local folk magic and invokes a fabled beast.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

325 of 332 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars These are GREAT, but fans be warned: this Doc is a totally different character! June 14, 2011

By M. Andy Mckinney

Format:DVD

I have the Australian/Region 4 discs of the two DOC MARTIN movies which were released a few years back (and have since gone out-of-print).

Firstly, these movies are really good! I don't think most people would be disappointed, HOWEVER, to fans of the TV series, I must warn you that this Doc is NOT the same surly Doc from the ITV television show.

If you've ever noticed the end credits to an episode of DOC MARTIN, you might have noticed the credit "arising from the film SAVING GRACE." That is because the character of Doc Martin is based on the character Dr. Martin Bamford from that movie, who was also played by Clunes, and which was also set in the same fishing village (except under its real name of Port Isaac rather than the made-up name of Port Wenn).

After the film SAVING GRACE came out, Clunes' production company decided they'd like to do some more with the character and signed a deal with Sky television to produce a series of made-for-TV movies: two a year for what was to have been a three-year deal. The two movies in this collection, "Doc Martin" and "Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie" were the only two that were made (as Sky Pictures went under before any others could be produced).

Both telefilms are "prequels" to SAVING GRACE and take place in the same "universe". In other words, the locations are the same and some of the supporting cast are the same. The first telefilm tells the story of how the Doc leaves behind city life to be in the country. The second film shows him as more-or-less established in the village.

To use a comic-book/sci-fi analogy, these movies (including SAVING GRACE) are set in a parallel universe to the ITV show.

155 of 156 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Martin Clunes polishes Doc Martin prior to the TV series July 14, 2011

By Harold Wolf TOP 50 REVIEWER

Format:DVD

Two feature length stories take the character of Doc Martin Bamford (Martin Clunes) and remove him from a London obstetric practice and places him in Port Isaac, Cornwall. You'll love this scenery as much as in "Doc Martin: collection - Series 1-4", for those who, like me, watched the TV series first and now catch-up with the movies. They are great in their own right. It's true, SOME of the characters in this double-feature were first created by Craig Ferguson & Mark Crowdy in "Saving Grace", but I did not care for that first introduction of Martin nearly as well as these two stories. To be fair, most Amazon reviewers disagree with me on S.Grace.

Besides Clunes, carryover characters for both films include lobsterman Harvey (Tristan Sturrock who also played Harvey in S.Grace & Danny Steel in the TV series); Justine (Barbara Lott-`Ballet Shoes') a nosy shopkeeper; lovely Rita (Neve McIntosh-`Lady Audley's Secret') almost a lover; Petronella (Lynsey Baxter) the wife/cheater who caused Martin to leave; Cabbie Mitch (Mark Heap-a superstar postman in "Lark Rise to Candleford"); Pub owner Charley (Paul Brooke-"Bridget Jones Diary' and also Charlie in S.Grace); & Vicar (Stephen Moore). It's a stellar cast, good writing, and fantastic setting. You will notice similarities from scenes in these films, the TV series, & Saving Grace. All were filmed in Port Isaac, but in the TV series the name changed to Portwenn. The locals of this double feature as every bit as eccentric and delightfully common as those in the TV series. Awesome pub-style music by Mark Thomas.

Doc Martin- 87 minutes with SUBTITLES
Doc Bamford discovers his 3 doctor friends have been bedding his wife Petronella. Thus the trip to seclusion, which ends in Port Isaac mud and a lobster boat gig. From there the relationships develop as well as difficulty when the town's newcomer is accused of being the evil fiend secretly passing jellies (molded gelatin) with an embedded photo. You'll also get an adult view (not for kids) of a couple (combined weight well over a quarter ton) making love, drug use, nudity, sexual situations, and medical scenes, most of that warned about on the box. With that comes belly laughs, characters you'll never forget (even if you want to), and some top acting. It's not exactly the same as "Doc Martin: 1-4 TV Series" but just as good. Clunes is the only actor that carried to the TV series as the same character. In the later, Clunes picks up some of the curmudgeon traits that was seen in Dr. Cadbury (Jeremy Child-see "First Among Equals") in this film.

Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie- 75 minutes with SUBTITLES
A cloutie is a cloth piece tied to a branch and a wish comes true as it rots. Doc Martin Bamford (Doc Martin was an Ellingham in the series) stoops to cloutie-ing to get an out-of-the-way home he fights over with the London Bowden development family. Family boss, Mrs Bowden is Anna chancellor (Four Weddings and a Funeral). Doc gets a bra strap cloutie from Lolita (Pam Ferris-`Jane Eyre' `Little Doritt' `Darling Buds of May' +). He even terrorizes kids. This film has duo-plots. There is also smuggling taking place, and of course the Doc gets caught in all sorts of illegal dealings. Enter the custom agents. Hilarious. The fat second in command, Lester (Steven O'Donnell) has few lines but makes up for it in action and expression. He is a gut busting comic, stealing scene after scene. It's easy to see why the response was so great after this film that the series was started. Watch closely in this film, the house front of Rita's place becomes Doc Martin Ellingham's Portween office a few years later.

Not enough of Martin Clunes yet?
Take a look at the NEW series "Reggie Perrin" & an older series "Demob" & "Lorna Doone" 2000.

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Available at last. August 17, 2011

By Brook B. Petersen

Format:DVD

I bought these two movies in Region 2, because as most good BBC/ITV they were not available here. Glad to see they now are.

I was a Clunes fan from Doc Martin, like most. I was not disapointed in these films. They do hold their own. Clunes is also great in "William and Mary." If you haven't seen it, check it out.