Not only does the filming boost Port Issac but the village benefits from a trust taking profits from overseas sales, and funding community projects.
One of these is a 40-place £400,000 car park, which helps with the fans, or “Clunatics”.
The Doc Martin production team contributed £32,000 to the project four years ago, taken from a community fund set up by Clunes, 55, and his wife Philippa Braithwaite, 53.
The actor, who played Gary in Men Behaving Badly, said it all added to the joy of the “once in a lifetime” role, with the ITV show back on Wednesday, 9pm.
Clunes said: “A lot of people have profi ted hugely from it, new businesses have grown up, the shuttle bus, tours and stuff, not to mention the million or so pounds we have put into the economy just by being here.”
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