Eight years on, that reach is expanding once again. Fox has unveiled the first trailer for Best Medicine, a new US adaptation starring The Good Wife’s Josh Charles as Dr Martin Best – a brilliant but socially awkward surgeon who swaps Boston for a small East Coast fishing village.
The series will premiere in January 2026, two decades after the original show first introduced audiences to the prickly doctor whose bedside manner was as sharp as his medical skills.
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It is screened in more than a dozen countries, including the USA, Canada, Venezuela, Mexico and Uruguay. It is also remade with an entirely different cast in half a dozen more, from Russia to Spain.
For a long time, there was even serious talk of Marta Kauffman, the co-creator of Friends, remaking Doc Martin in America.
"She was very keen," says Mark Crowdy, the show’s executive producer. "But they couldn’t find a way of making it commercially viable because we’ve already sold the format around the world. When Doc Martin first aired in the US, its reach was just 7 per cent. But as its popularity has grown, it’s now up to 97 per cent. Absolutely astonishing."
When I visit, four American women outside a shop are leaning breathlessly over a bowl of £3 fridge magnets displaying Martin Clunes as Doc Martin in a grey suit and wearing a disinterested expression. They ignore the topless postcards of Aidan Turner in Poldark, their attention focused entirely on Doc Martin memorabilia – postcards of the cast, a clock, clotted cream, shortbread biscuits and an apron with the Doc scowling, his baby dangling in a sling from his chest.
The American women aren’t simply passing through – they are self-proclaimed "Clunatics". Ask why they love the irascible doctor so much and they simply say: "He’s so honest! So direct!"
For Doc Martin’s legions of fans, knowing that the doctor’s surname, Ellingham, is an anagram of the surname of series creator Dominic Minghella is an interesting detail, but incidental. The main appeal lies in feeling they are connected in some way to the show and its star.
What will they do if the show bows out at the end of its ninth series in 2019? The Clunatics, their bags stuffed with mugs and magnets, shrug. "Watch it again from the start, of course."
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