TV Shows Like Doc Martin
If you like Doc Martin, here are 10 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 it trusts the appeal of its setting and characters over melodrama. The show plants its protagonist, a brilliant but socially awkward former surgeon, in a small Cornish village where he cannot escape his patients or the messy complications of their lives. The genius is that Doc Martin refuses to pretend this situation will be resolved by the end of the episode. Martin Clunes plays the doctor as genuinely fractious and out of place, not softening him into likability for the sake of comfort. The village remains strange and ordinary at once, full of people who know each other too well and want things from him whether he wants to help or not.
The best shows like Doc Martin
1. The Resident
Like Doc Martin, The Resident centers on a complex doctor navigating the gap between what medicine is supposed to be and what it actually is. The show shares an interest in the professional challenges and human messiness that come with the job, though it swaps the Cornish village for a large hospital where the stakes feel more urgent.
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2. Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek builds its appeal on the same foundation as Doc Martin: a tight group of recurring characters in a specific place, learning how to get along with each other despite their differences. The tone is lighter and the focus is on friendship rather than medicine, but the pleasure of watching people navigate their relationships over multiple seasons is similar.
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3. Casualty
Casualty is the closest match for fans who want the British medical setting and ensemble cast of Doc Martin, with the added draw of the hospital soap format that lets storylines develop gradually. It shares Doc Martin's interest in how medicine and personal crisis collide in people's lives, though it spans a larger hospital system rather than a small village.
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4. Taxi
Taxi mines comedy from a workplace full of recurring characters who form real bonds despite their dysfunction and irritation with each other. Like Doc Martin, it trusts that the best humor comes from people who know each other well and keep disappointing or surprising one another, season after season.
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5. New Tricks
New Tricks shares Doc Martin's British setting and its interest in older protagonists who feel out of step with the world around them. The ensemble format and the pleasure of watching the same characters solve problems together over time give it a similar rhythm, and it balances comedy with emotional weight.
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More on shows like Doc Martin
Fans of Doc Martin tend to look for shows that balance humor and feeling, that root themselves in specific places and communities rather than generic settings, and that let their characters be difficult without punishing them for it. They like stories where the workplace is also a social ecosystem, where professional obligations tangle with personal relationships, and where episodes do not usually wrap up neatly because life does not.
The recommendations here approach this mix from different angles. Casualty and The Resident both explore medicine and its complications, though they trade Doc Martin's small-scale intimacy and comedy for larger hospital systems and graver stakes. New Tricks shares the British setting and the ensemble of quirky regulars with whom you become familiar over time, plus the pleasure of a cast playing people past their first act. Taxi and Dawson's Creek work differently, emphasizing the found-family aspect of their settings and the way regular characters rub against each other season after season, though neither is quite as dark or uncomfortable as Doc Martin wants to be.
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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 10 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.