Doc Martin does finally marry Louisa in the sixth season of the show, after their relationship has been on and off throughout the show.
Doc Martin has been a beloved British medical comedy drama for various reasons since its first season.
One of the storylines that fans of the show have followed closely is the contentious relationship between Doc Martin and Louisa.
Fortunately, this couple finally gets married in the sixth season of the show, but this does not mean that their troubles are over.
What makes Doc Martin so enjoyable to watch?
Doc Martin has many of the tropes that you would expect from a beloved British medical comedy drama series, including a slightly-too-stiff main character, good writing, and picturesque scenes of Port Isaac in Cornwall, as the fictional village of Portwenn, sprinkled throughout.
Although most people simply know Doc Martin as the show with the strange, but lovable Doctor Martin Ellingham that their mothers and grandmothers love, the relative comfort that this show provides for all of its casual and loyal viewers has kept it on the air for 18 years.
In a world where the pace of daily life keeps getting faster, the nearly frustratingly slow pace and unravelling of storylines in the show makes it a welcome change of pace for many viewers to this day.
Does Doc Martin marry Louisa?
One of these frustrating storylines that fans of the show have been following since the first season aired in 2004, is the somewhat complicated and uncertain relationship between the former doctor of Portwenn, Martin Ellingham, and the former headmistress of the local primary school, Louisa Glasson.
This relationship between the bubbly and beautiful Louisa, who is played by Caroline Catz, and the blunt and straight-forward Doc Martin, played by Martin Clunes, has been a real will-they-won’t-they question for Doc Martin fans since the pair met.
Then, in season three, when Doc Martin and Louisa’s first attempt at their wedding did not go to plan and was eventually called off, many fans assumed that it would be the end of this constant conflict between the characters.
However, the show had other plans. Louisa soon announced that she was pregnant with the doctor’s child, and although this was supposed to bring the uncertain and unstable couple closer together, the same on-and-off theme continued throughout the next few seasons.
Fortunately, all of this turmoil and the anticipation from the viewers of the show, who have followed this storyline closely over the years, finally came to an end, when Doc Martin and Louisa finally got married at the beginning of the sixth season.
They got married in the first episode of season six, titled “Sickness and Health”, which originally aired on 2 September 2013.
This was to the relief of the over 9.5 million viewers who tuned in to watch the episode, however, in classic Doc Martin fashion, chaos soon ensued and the couple had many new struggles and challenges to overcome after the wedding and in the following seasons of the show.
What was the relationship between Doc Martin and Louisa like before the wedding?
The budding relationship between Doc Martin and Louisa has been one that viewers have watched develop on their screens since the first season of the show.
However, just because viewers knew early on that there was a special connection between these two characters, it does not mean that the characters have always been happily in love.
Initially the doctor’s blunt personality did not do him any favours with Louisa, and then Louisa’s ex-boyfriend almost whisked her away in the second season.
Later, she left after their first attempt at a wedding ended in chaos, and so on and so forth, until they finally got married properly in season six.
What happened after Doc Martin and Louise got married?
Since there was so much uncertainty and chaos leading up to the moment when Doc Martin and Louisa finally got married, it just would not seem right if everything after the wedding simply went according to plan.
The couple’s honeymoon quickly went awry and from there, Martin and Louisa had to learn how to overcome the struggles that come with newlywed life and the challenges of being new parents.
How was Doc Martin and Louisa’s wedding received by fans?
Since so many fans of the show have been following the relationship between Doc Martin and Louisa so closely, it came as no shock that just over 9.51 million viewers tuned in to watch the episode where these two finally tied the knot.
This episode also received a very high rating of 8.3 out of 10 on IMDb.