Doc Martin to Feature Sigourney Weaver Feb. 25 on KCET

DOC MARTIN welcomes (well, sort of) the film icon and award-winning actress Sigourney Weaver (Avatar, Aliens) as a guest star in an upcoming episode airing Thurs., Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. PT. In the episode entitled “Facta Non Verba,” Weaver plays an American tourist who visits the sleepy seaside community of Portwenn where she is sent to Martin’s practice to get a prescription refilled. Once there, she argues with the Doc over what kind of medication she needs and is appalled at the way the doctor speaks to his assistant, ultimately offering up advice on how to stand up to him. All of this is icing on the cake for Martin after he and his wife tell their therapist about a recently failed date night, which leads to the couple questioning their ultimate compatibility.

DOC MARTIN is KCET’s highly acclaimed and top-rated dramedy that stars Martin Clunes as Dr. Martin Ellingham, whose truculence and tactlessness continue to cause mayhem in a small Cornish community. The series details the trials and tribulations of the brash Ellingham, a celebrated London surgeon who is forced to quit his job after developing a blood phobia. Much to his chagrin, he finds work as a general practitioner~in the sleepy village of Portwenn.

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