By Franz Amussen
KCET’s popular British dramedy Doc Martin welcomes a high profile guest star this week as Sigourney Weaver makes a surprise visit to the sleepy seaside community of Portwenn.
The actress, best known for her role as Ripley in the Alien film franchise, stars in the episode “Facta Non Verba,” (airing Thursday, Feb. 25th at 8pm) playing an American tourist who is sent to the grumpy doctor’s practice to get a prescription refilled. Once there, she argues with the Doc (Martin Clunes) 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.
Weaver is reportedly a longtime fan of the long-running show, which stars Clunes as Dr. Martin Ellingham, a former London high-flyer turned fish-out-of-water whose truculence and tactlessness cause mayhem in a small Cornish community. The show has logged over 750 episodes and is one of British TV’s biggest-ever export success stories.
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