TV Shows Like Doc Martin
If you like Doc Martin, here are 11 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
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Doc Martin works because of a simple setup with endless variations. A testy, socially inept doctor arrives in a picturesque seaside village and clashes with everyone. He's brilliant at medicine, hopeless at people. Week after week, the show puts this character in situations where his competence solves problems but his abrasiveness creates new ones, and the formula never gets old because the village keeps producing fresh complications. The comedy comes from character, not jokes. Martin Clunes plays it straight, never winking at the audience, which makes the awkwardness funnier.
The best shows like Doc Martin
1. The Resident
The Resident shares Doc Martin's focus on a skilled but difficult doctor navigating the medical world and the people around him, but trades the seaside village for a hospital setting where the stakes are higher and the tone is darker. If you liked watching Martin solve medical puzzles while alienating nearly everyone, this will appeal to your interest in medicine meets fractious human relationships.
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2. Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek follows a tight ensemble of teenagers in a small town through years of growth and change, with both comic and serious moments emerging from their relationships. The focus on a defined cast in a close-knit community, where personal drama matters as much as plot, parallels what makes Doc Martin work.
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3. Casualty
Casualty is the most direct match: a British ensemble drama set in a hospital where the staff and patients drive the story as much as any medical case. Like Doc Martin, it balances serious professional challenges with the personal and social complications that emerge when the same people see each other week after week.
Stream on Britbox Apple TV Channel
Likely Renewed82%
4. The Brokenwood Mysteries
The Brokenwood Mysteries puts an outsider detective in a small town where murder tends to happen, and the show takes as much interest in the community dynamics and local personalities as it does in solving the crime. The setting and the tension between the newcomer and the established residents will feel familiar if you loved Portwenn.
Stream on YouTube TV, Acorn TV, AcornTV Amazon Channel, Spectrum On Demand
Likely Renewed72%
5. Newhart
Newhart is a comedy about a couple running an inn in rural Vermont, populated with quirky locals who visit repeatedly and involve themselves in Dick Loudon's life. Like Doc Martin, it mines comedy from the clash of characters in a small, bounded setting, and from the everyday absurdities of small-town life.
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The appeal of Doc Martin has a lot to do with setting. Portwenn is a character itself, all narrow streets and harbor views and a closed community where everyone knows everyone else's business. The show takes that small-town dynamics seriously. Outsiders get noticed. Relationships matter. The mundane details of village life, the local politics, the casual cruelties of a tight-knit group, these things shape the story as much as any plot. Fans of the show tend to want more of this: the comedy and drama that emerges from a limited cast of characters in a bounded geography, where personality and social friction matter more than external crisis.
The recommendations here split into two camps. Casualty and The Resident are both hospital dramas, which makes them obvious matches on the surface. Casualty is the more direct parallel, a British ensemble show about medical professionals dealing with patients and with each other. But The Resident takes a different approach, focusing on the darker realities of medicine through a mentor-protégé relationship. The Brokenwood Mysteries brings back the small-town setting and the central character who's an outsider to the community, though it leans toward procedural crime rather than comedy. Newhart is the most different, a sitcom set in another small American inn, but it captures something essential about Doc Martin: the comedy of place, the absurdity that bubbles up when you trap intelligent people in a small space with nowhere to hide. Dawson's Creek is the outlier here, a teen soap that shares only the ensemble-in-a-small-town structure, but the tight character relationships and the blend of comedy and genuine drama might appeal to viewers who prize those elements.
All five shows understand that a good setting is half the story. They give you a place to belong, characters who stay around long enough to develop depth, and the kind of rhythm that comes from watching the same people navigate new situations rather than pursuing a single overarching plot. If you loved Doc Martin, you're probably hungry for more of that.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Doc Martin?
- The Resident is the most popular show similar to Doc Martin in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Doc Martin still on the air?
- Of the 11 shows similar to Doc Martin listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Doc Martin?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.