Bamford / Ellingham: what's in a name?

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If you could see what I've seen with your eyes!

Can anyone help please, I desparately need to get a copy of this movie, just cant find it. I live in South Africa and would pay for shipping anything please help?

You're right. Dr Bamford and Dr Ellingham are two entirely different people. Bamford is friendly and outgoing, drinks pints at the pub, smokes cigarettes and pot, and gives sweets to his patients. Just the opposite of Dr Ellingham.

I think what happened was this film called Saving Grace Which was written by Scottish television host, stand-up comedian, writer, and actor Craig Ferguson and stared Craig Ferguson Brenda Blethyn Leslie Phillips Tristan Sturrock. Martin Clunes had a small part in this film as Dr Martin Bamford. The film was about Grace Trevethyn played by Brenda Blethyn who's husband dies and leave her with no money and all these bills to pay so she and her gardener played by Craig Ferguson decided to grow drugs in her garden shed. The film was set in Port Isaac Cornwall. The film never really got shown at the cinam around the world but was a hit on DVD. The film is kind of like Waking Ned.
A few year after that film was made Martin Clues and Sky Pictuers decide to make a prequel to Saving Greace Called Doc Martin which tells the story of Martin Clunes character Dr Martin Bamford and the months leading up to the Saving Grace story. The main characters from Saving Grace have now gone from Doc Martin and all the suport actors most now main characters are back plus a few new one's. Some time after that film they decide to make a third film in the series called Doc Martin and the Legened of the Cloutie. They plan to make a fourth film in the series but then Sky Pictures gose bust and Martin Clunes decideds to sell the idea to ITV1 as a TV series. ITV tell him to keep the story but change all the characters So Martin Bamford is now Martin Ellingham and gone are all the Characters from the 3 films and Martin Clunes is the only Actor from the 3 films now in this series. They even change the name of Port Isaac where they still film the series. The series is now not meant to be anything to do with the 3 films but the story for the series is kind of the same and they also called it Doc Matin which is a shame as it is not really aything to do with those 3 films. It is kind of a remake of the Doc Martin/Saving Garace films. I just wish that they had been able to take the Saving Grace/Doc Martin film series to another TV station or production company and have made a fourth film and not have remade the 3 great films into a not so good TV series.

Good thing the creator of the series wasn't named Rasehole.

Some PBS stations show Doc Martin the series, then also show the movies every so often. During pledge drives, they often give copies of the Movies in exchange for pledges.

I prefer the Martin character of the series; the one in the movies isn't nearly as provocative or complex.

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