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Doc Martin, culture warrior.(Television program review)

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| June 01, 2008 | Devine, Frank | COPYRIGHT 2008 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SLIPPED INTO AUSTRALIA without fanfare three years ago and unobtrusively aired by the ABC at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday, when A-list people are busy dressing for their glamorous nights out, the British television comedy series Doc Martin has become--boldly to borrow a phrase usually applied to movies about eviscerated, impaled and beheaded teenagers--a cult classic. To meet another Doc Martin cultist for the first time is to engage at once in a silent exchange of character and personality profiles.

Some among the shabby, Saturday stay-at-home elite have let the idea of having their own cult classic go to their heads. When I murmured my intention of writing about ...

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