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* BrotherSisterIncest: Handled with surprisingly little {{Squick}}.

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* BrotherSisterIncest: Handled with surprisingly little {{Squick}}.[[invoked]]{{Squick}}.
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-->Doctor: You know this man?
-->Translator: Yes, he's my husband. And an idiot.

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-->Doctor: -->'''Doctor''': You know this man?
-->Translator: -->'''Translator''': Yes, he's my husband. And an idiot.
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* CastingGag: They once had a Patient Of The Week who was an actor best known for his role as a mysterious time-traveller in a decades-old children's programme. He was played by Sylvester [=McCoy=], a.k.a. the Seventh [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]].

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* CastingGag: They once had a Patient Of The Week PatientOfTheWeek who was an actor best known for his role as a mysterious time-traveller in a decades-old children's programme. He was played by Sylvester [=McCoy=], a.k.a. the Seventh [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]].
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''Doctors'' is a British daytime SoapOpera set in a doctors' surgery, which has aired on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC One]] since 2000. It is set in the fictional Birmingham suburb of Letherbridge.

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''Doctors'' is a British daytime SoapOpera set in a doctors' surgery, which has aired on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC One]] since 26 March 2000. It is set in the fictional Birmingham suburb of Letherbridge.
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''Doctors'' is a British daytime SoapOpera set in a doctors' surgery. Debuted in 2000. It is set in the fictional Birmingham suburb of Letherbridge.

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''Doctors'' is a British daytime SoapOpera set in a doctors' surgery. Debuted in surgery, which has aired on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC One]] since 2000. It is set in the fictional Birmingham suburb of Letherbridge.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Has happened a number of times, most recently with Sean Gleeson and Stirling Gallacher.
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* DawsonCasting: Charlie Clemmow was born in 1986; her character, Imogen Hollins, was born in 1993.
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* PowerOfTrust: A terminally ill woman and her son successfully use this on the woman's homeless brother to persuade him to look after the boy whe she dies.

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* PowerOfTrust: A terminally ill woman and her son successfully use this on the woman's homeless brother to persuade him to look after the boy whe when she dies.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Simon Bond.


* BiTheWay: Freya Wilson.
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* KarmaHoudini: Nic, a deranged homeless woman in the 2016 homelessness storyline. On top of being a bully and a thief, she murders two people. She receives no comeuppance and never appears again.

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* KarmaHoudini: Nic, a deranged homeless woman in the 2016 homelessness homeless storyline. On top of being a bully and a thief, she murders two people. She receives no comeuppance and never appears again.
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* KarmaHoudini: Nicola, a deranged homeless woman in the 2016 homelessness storyline. On top of being a bully and a thief, she murders two people. She receives no comeuppance and never appears again.

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* KarmaHoudini: Nicola, Nic, a deranged homeless woman in the 2016 homelessness storyline. On top of being a bully and a thief, she murders two people. She receives no comeuppance and never appears again.
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* KarmaHoudini: Nicola, a deranged homeless woman in the 2016 homelessness storyline. She murders two people, gets no comeuppance and never appears again.

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* KarmaHoudini: Nicola, a deranged homeless woman in the 2016 homelessness storyline. She On top of being a bully and a thief, she murders two people, gets people. She receives no comeuppance and never appears again.
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* KarmaHoudini: Nicola, a deranged homeless woman in the 2016 homelessness storyline. She murders two people, gets no comeuppance and is never seen again.

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* KarmaHoudini: Nicola, a deranged homeless woman in the 2016 homelessness storyline. She murders two people, gets no comeuppance and is never seen again.
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* InsultToRocks: An ex of Daniel's left a [[MosesInTheBullrushes baby]] in the surgery. When he insisted it was nothing to do with him, Michelle called him a horrible stinking rat. Archie asked that they not insult rats.

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* InsultToRocks: An ex of Daniel's left a [[MosesInTheBullrushes [[MosesInTheBulrushes baby]] in the surgery. When he insisted it was nothing to do with him, Michelle called him a horrible stinking rat. Archie asked that they not insult rats.
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* AdamWesting: One episode had Creator/SylvesterMcCoy (the Seventh Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'' Adam Westing as a has-been actor best known for his title role in the children's fantasy series ''The Magical Lollipop Man''.

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* AdamWesting: One episode had Creator/SylvesterMcCoy (the Seventh Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'' ''Series/DoctorWho'') Adam Westing as a has-been actor best known for his title role in the children's fantasy series ''The Magical Lollipop Man''.

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* AdamWesting: One episode had Creator/SylvesterMcCoy (the Seventh Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'' Adam Westing as a has-been actor best known for his title role in the children's fantasy series ''The Magical Lollipop Man''.
* {{Adorkable}}: Simon Bond.



* {{Adorkable}}: Simon Bond.
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* ChekhovMIA: Mrs Tembe's husband Thomas, who she had claimed was dead, eventually turned up.
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* LimitedSocialCircle: Despite Letherbridge being a fair-sized town (it has a university), whenever an incident requires the police to become involved, it is invariably Sergeant Rob Hollins who takes up the call, or else he becomes involved at some point, often recognising somebody he knows.
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* FriendOnTheForce: The police also appearred on the show often, sometimes justified by one of the characters being a police surgeon.
** [[CopBoyfriend Cop Girlfriend]]: Later Jimmi would get a girlfriend who was a DI.
** [[CopBoyfriend Cop Husband]]: And Karen's husband has the rank of Sergeant.
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[[quoteright:333:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctors_uk-show_3561.jpg]]
''Doctors'' is a British daytime SoapOpera set in a doctors' surgery. Debuted in 2000. It is set in the fictional Birmingham suburb of Letherbridge.

The setting of a GP's practice means that the series cast is based around 4 or 5 doctors, a nurse and a reception. The actual characters have had a fairly high turnover with most of the current cast only having a 1 or 2 year history on the show but the size of the cast keeps it to a similar sort of format with TwoLinesNoWaiting for one line of plot dealing with some interpersonal problems between the doctors and another plot line often dealing with some PatientOfTheWeek. These latter plot lines often opened themselves up for some topical issue taking up the [[RippedFromTheHeadlines headlines]].

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* AllAbusersAreMale: Most definitely averted, most recently with Heston and Marina.
* {{Adorkable}}: Simon Bond.
* "''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra''": Used, possible rather parodically, when Karen, who had been making efforts to eat healthily, finally snapped and tucked into a burger at a Greasy Spoon cafe.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Lauren Porter]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Exhibited when Simon, having suffered numerous homophobic jibes from Charlie, eventually confronted the latter: his controlled rage was scary.
* BiTheWay: Freya Wilson.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Lauren Porter was a classic example. Marina Bonnaire is a rather more complex case; it's not clear how genuine the nice part of her personality is.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Imogen Hollins is doing a very good job of fulfilling this entire trope on her own.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Handled with surprisingly little {{Squick}}.
* ByTheBookCop: Rob Hollins
* CastingGag: They once had a Patient Of The Week who was an actor best known for his role as a mysterious time-traveller in a decades-old children's programme. He was played by Sylvester [=McCoy=], a.k.a. the Seventh [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]].
* TheCharmer: Dr. Jimmi Clay which is an rare combination with a character with OCD.
* DawsonCasting: Charlie Clemmow was born in 1986; her character, Imogen Hollins, was born in 1993.
* DirtyOldMan: Charlie Bradfield.
* DrJerk: Heston Carter
* FakingTheDead: Jimmy's girlfriend, who was an undercover cop had to fake her own death at the hands of another undercover agent to make it seem like her partner was willing to kill cops and thus get closer to the heart of a drug smuggling ring.
* FriendOnTheForce: The police also appearred on the show often, sometimes justified by one of the characters being a police surgeon.
** [[CopBoyfriend Cop Girlfriend]]: Later Jimmi would get a girlfriend who was a DI.
** [[CopBoyfriend Cop Husband]]: And Karen's husband has the rank of Sergeant.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted with Karen.
* HandsomeLech: Daniel Grainger.
* HoneyTrap: An old friend of Julia's asked her to try to seduce her fiancé to prove he was loyal. Unfortunately, Julia got the wrong man.
* InsultToRocks: An ex of Daniel's left a [[MosesInTheBullrushes baby]] in the surgery. When he insisted it was nothing to do with him, Michelle called him a horrible stinking rat. Archie asked that they not insult rats.
* PowerOfTrust: A terminally ill woman and her son successfully use this on the woman's homeless brother to persuade him to look after the boy whe she dies.
* ReformedButRejected: An example in the episode on 8 October 2010: a previously abusive mother managed to turn her relationship with her daughter around, but was still regarded with suspicion by her own mother, who eventually abducted the child on the strength of this.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Has happened a number of times, most recently with Sean Gleeson and Stirling Gallacher.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Zara
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Zara Carmichael.
* TwoferTokenMinority: A job that tends to befall the nurses, that of being a black woman with a slightly thicker regional accent surrounded by white middle class doctors.
** Mandy Marquez is a [[ExaggeratedTrope threefer]] token minority, being a lesbian as well.
* VanityLicensePlate: Vivian had to take a driving test and as is natural she had to read out a license plate from twenty feet: X565 BUM. Cue embarrassment.
* WorldOfSnark: Everyone is snarky on occasion, particularly Julia, Imogen and Zara.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: In this case, the more logical, Worthless Foreign Medical License for an Asian bus driver who saved the life of a boy on his bus, then feigned a lack of English to avoid getting in trouble for practicing without a licence. So they called in a translator, which led to a funny moment when she recognised him:
-->Doctor: You know this man?
-->Translator: Yes, he's my husband. And an idiot.

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