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71. So the new series Best Medicine is a copy of Doc Martin?

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 06:58 AM

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I started watching Best Medicine, but have never seen Doc Martin. Best Medicine is exactly as you described, except Port Wenn is located in Maine and spelled as two words.

They did that with Ghosts, a copy of the original UK Ghosts.

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