Tristan Sturrock

Reluctant father David has spent his life running away: from his foster home, from responsibilities, from his marriage, from his daughter Lea. But now, she is thrown back into his life: she's leaving university, and David is the only person who can drive her home to Cornwall. Is it too late for David to make up for a lifetime of disappointments and his own shortcomings as father?

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).

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.