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In this episode, I liked the storyline with Melany the best. I was surprised (again) by Martin’s acting skills. He seemed so genuinly frightened when she was in his bed! Lovely to see the cocker spaniels of which at least one was of Martin and Philippa. I loved the last scene too, where Martin gave Joan the support she needed.

Very interesting discussions here! I rewatched the episode again yesterdaay, after some of your interesting remarks. I also noticed something I hadn’t seen before. When The Doc meets Susan Brading for the first time, they pass the backside of the school. In the later series, there is always the playground of the school, with the blue gate, but here it was just what it in real life is: the parking of the Old School hotel.

Just rewatched this very first episode. It surprised me a bit how “nice” he was in fact. He smiled a few times, nearly really laughed when seeing the surferboy’s Volkswagen floating in the waves. It also surprised me how rude the people of Portwenn were to him. Elaine in partiular. She was speaking to her future employer in such a rude way! I totally agreed with Martin that he didn’t want to hire her in the first place. I wasn’t very surprised that he was about to go away after one week. He was about to go bodmin indeed. It was only his love for the medical profession that witheld him from that – thanks to Bert. And maybe the hint of crush he had for the head teacher 😉

I raelly enjoyed this episode. The Doc was more considerate with people around him. For instance with Elaine, who was really annoying in this episode. It was Martin who made her think about the situation and obviously convinced her to be present.

I agree that Roger should have become a permanent villager, like Al and Bert, Mrs Tischel, etc.

Kate, you probably meant aunt Joan in your post

And ‘is it me, or don’t you understand plain English?’ … ‘It’s you!’

Pam, those kind of textlines were what made me hooked to the series. And of course the handsome actor, of whom -I admit, I had never heard of before. One very funny line from episode 1 is also when Elaine says ‘ will you pay me for this week or what’ and of course he answers ‘what’. I have seen this episode countless tomes and still see new things. I’ll have to rewatch the part with the the taped nose and the eyepatch tonight. Some of you might know that I saw the Dutch version first, but for some reason, I had missed the first episode of Dokter Tinus. That made the first watching of S1e1 completely new and a very pleasant surprise. Once I had seen it, I immediately ordered the box with S1 to S5 and bingewatched it during Christmas holidays of 2013. My poor family didn’t get much attention at the time. But what a show! After some time my youngest son, then 13 years old, pretended sitting next to me and doing a game on his tablet, but anytime he laughed at the right moment, so he secretly watched it with me.. Very good for his English too!

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Kate, ad 2) me too, I saw that for the first time Saturday. Also when he saw her for the first time in many years, he hugged her and looked so glad to see her!