Viewers of Doc Martin have been left tickled by a blunder in the show's final series, with a laughable incident many have claimed simply wouldn't happen in real life.
Doc Martin has been running since 2004 with the tenth and final series ending this autumn. The comic series sees actor Martin Clunes as the awkward and stiff Doc Martin who is the resident GP in the sleepy village of Portwenn. As he attempts to treat the ailments and cases of the village's residents, there's nothing quite straight forward about this practice.
However one case in particular has had ITV viewers giggling, with one branding it as "far fetched".
In one of the episodes, one woman simply walked into the Dr's practice with her baby and was seen immediately. With NHS appointments notoriously in short supply across the UK at the moment, viewers couldn't help but laugh at the blunder. Currently in the UK it can take days to be seen by a GP or even weeks to get an appointment.
Laughing at the scene on social media, one viewer said: "A GP who will see you instantly and diagnosis you too immediately and an ambulance in 20 minutes. Can I move to Portwenn please?"
Another joked: "I’m moving to Portwenn - if I fall ill the Doctor will see me immediately and diagnose and treat there and then."
A third viewer posted: "The access to a GP (1) in Doc Martin that the locals have is somewhat incredible."
"20 minutes for an ambulance, I'm moving to Portwenn," joked another.
The blunder features in what is the last series of Doc Martin, as the long-running programme comes to an end. Lead actor Martin Clunes revealed the cast and crew were left crying when filming ended earlier this year.
He revealed: "On set, we were all in tears towards the end."
"When we started shooting back in February, we were so busy I didn’t have time to dwell on this series being the last. I think I was in a kind of numb denial."
The series has been running for 18 years, but Clunes explained it was the right time to end it: "It feels like the right time. It would be very tempting to keep going but we want to go out on a high rather than have the show cancelled at some point.
"It’s been very important to us to keep the quality of the scripts and the characters very high. At the end of series nine, we reckoned that we could do one more season and keep the standard as high as it’s always been. Series 10 seemed the right time to end it – plus, we’ve done a Christmas special, which rounds things off very nicely."
The show is produced by Martin’s real-life wife Philippa Braithwaite, who he married in 1997.
Doc Martin continues Wednesday nights at 9pm on ITV.
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