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The ITV drama is in its ninth series October 02, 2019 - 19:02 BST Diane Shipley Popular ITV show Doc Martin returned for a new run of eight episodes last week, and this ninth series is ramping up the drama. The titular character is a surgeon who moves to Cornwall and becomes a GP after developing a fear of blood. This time around, he finds himself under scrutiny by the General Medical Council after several patients complain about his grumpy attitude.
Ian McNeice As local plumber Bert Large, Ian McNeice has been a regular on the show since it started, and he's become a firm fan favourite, even telling The Mirror that the show had made him a "sex symbol" in his sixties.
Joe Absolom Former EastEnders star Joe plays pub landlord Al Large on the Cornish drama. Prior to Doc Martin, he was best known for his work on the London-set soap, which he joined in 1997, but it wasn't his first role. As a child, he was cast in a series of advertisements for Sun-Pat peanut butter and went on to star in 1991 movie Antonia and Jane and TV shows including The Bill and Silent Witness.
Jessica Ransom Jessica Ransom has played Doc Martin's receptionist Morwenna Newcross since series five. She's also taken on various characters on children's show Horrible Histories and starred in TV series Zapped and The Armstrong and Miller Show, for which she worked as a writer. The Sheffield-born star won a Children's BAFTA Award in 2015.
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