Doctor Mateo

Doctor Mateo was a Spanish television comedy drama produced by Notro Films for Antena 3. It is an adaptation of the British series Doc Martin, created by Dominic Minghella.

Characters

• Mateo Sancristobal (Gonzalo de Castro)

Mateo is a doctor who was living in New York until he started suffering hemophobia. He has a very bad temperament and is always in a very bad mood. Although his apparently aggressive personality, he is a very naive man, in fact, he suffers from an evident Asperger syndrome. Mateo, after leaving the hospital where he was working in NY, arrives to a little village of the province of Asturias, in the north of Spain called San Martín del Sella, where he lived when he was a child. There he meets the people from that village and discovers that there is always something interesting happening.

• Adriana Pozuelo (Natalia Verbeke)

Adriana is the teacher of the school of San Martin del Sella. She's a very good person with a sharp sense of justice and morality. She falls in love with Mateo but she doesn't know how to catch his attention.

• Elena (María Esteve)

Helena is the baker of the village. She's the mother of a son whose father is Carol's husband with whom she had an affair. She's neurotic and hypocondriac and close friend of Adriana and Carol.

• Carol (Lulú Palomares)

Carol is the owner of the publicly founded radio station of San Martín del Sella. She´s very interested in the life of the neighbours of the village and always tends to get involved in their life and problems, in fact, all the gossips of the village are broadcast in her radio shows. Carol is married with Mario, who is the father of Elena's son. she is friend of Adriana and Helena.

• Alfredo Escobar (Alex O'Dogherty)

Alfredo is the policeman of the village. He is a simple minded and good hearted person. He falls in love very easily but he's very unsure of himself because of a sad ending affair he had before. He loves his work and his motto is: "The rules are the rules and they must be obeyed". He fell in love with Helena and now he lives with her and with her son.

• Mario (Xavi Mira)

Mario is the husband of Carol. He loves his wife and always looks after her. He sometimes gets scared with the strong personality and the gossiping of Carol. He worked in a bank, but now he's unemployed and decided to open a hairdressing salon (His ambition from her childhood). Ten years before he had an affair with Elena with whom he had a child, but he didn't know that.

• Aunt Juana (Rosario Pardo)

Juana is the Aunt of Mateo. She has always lived all alone without anyone in her life. When Mateo arrived to San Martín, she helped him to get integrated with the neighbours. She is the best confident of her nephew and she doesn't need words to communicate with him, in fact she protects Mateo and loves him as if he was his son. She got married in a convenience marriage with a Nigerian sailor who is trying to help.

• Tom Pellegrini (Daniel Freire)

Tom is the argentinian owner of the tavern of the village. He was singer of a Rock band called "Metro y los politanos", but his career came to an end and now he lives in San Martin. He is a nostalgic of his music career and the pub is filled with the memories of the past success. Recently his son David came to live to the village.

• David Pellegrini (Elio Gonzalez)

David is Tom's son. He lived in Madrid, but decided to live to San Martin del Sella to know about his past. His relationship with his father was really hard because he felt alone when their parents divorced, this fact made him a very mature person. Anyway, they start getting emotionally closer.

• Ana (Ángela Moreno)

Ana works as a waitress in the tavern of the village. She's shy, very unsure of herself and a compulsive money saver, (To the point that her friends think that she's a banker). Although she's a very good person, she can get incredibly angry. Ana is in love with Riqui, with whom she wants to make a world tour.

• Riqui (Gonzalo Kindelan)

Riqui is the waiter of tom's tavern. He works both in the tavern and as a sound assistant of Carol's radio station. He is a very good looking boy with whom all the girls of the village would love to have an affair. He falls in love with Ana but their relationship tends to be a bit turbulent.

Chapters

1st season

• 1: About how Dr San Cristobal arrives to San Martín del Sella the day of the patroness.
• 2: About what happened the night when Grease was shown in the summer cinema.
• 3: About how that night in the tabern, a man was fighting with himself.
• 4: About how Mateo discovers once again that in San Martín del Sella everything is known.
• 5: About how Mateo "feints but does not hit".
• 6: About how in San Martín everything is uphill.
• 7: About what happened to Elvis, David bowie and Bustamante.
• 8: About how the forest of San Martín is as dense as Mateo when he drinks.
• 9: About how the time time doesn't go by in San Martín.
• 10: About how Mateo comits a mistake the day he decides to improvise.

Second season

• 2: About how Mateo realises that there are days and days, and that today is not one of those.
• 3: About how Mateo will be always Mateo.
• 4: About how Mateo finishes a journey that he didn't start.
• 5: About how Mateo meets Mr Asperger.
• 6: About how the best frieds are those who are always there, even when they are not present.
• 7: About how Mateo stops being Mateo without having stopped being Mateo.
• 8: About how space and time are relative but they coincide in the worst momment.
• 9: About how life goes on... unless you are dead.
• 10: About how things are just like they are... and we can't do anyhting to change it.
• 11: About how when the rules are broken things might get better.
• 12: About how I give advice but I don't obey it.
• 13: About how you must eat with the spoon you choose.
• 14: About how the smoke blinds the eyes of San Martín.
• 13: About how Mateo buys the return ticket.

Third season

• 1: About how San Tritón makes your life change suddenly.
• 2: About how Mateo realises that he doesn't realise.
• 3: About how a man takes his ego and his circumstances.
• 4: About how the temper changes as they do the seasons.
• 5: About how time goes by and no body can resist it.
• 6: About how a mother's post mortem desire can complicate the day.

Fourth season

• 1: About how sometimes is impossible to call things by their own name.
• 2: About how the best thing is not to move it.
• 3: About how when a gherkin meets a postman, a naked man enters in the San Frutos tavern.
• 4: About how Adriana discovers the loneliness and that mateo won't be alone again.
• 5: About how the stress of a weeding kills the happy people and the partdriges.
• 6: About how you must not marry or depart the day of your weeding.
• 7: About how men have what they have and are useful for what they are useful. Period.
• 8: About how sometimes we don't take the path we choose.
• 9: About how difficult is to start when you haven't finished.
• 10: About how everybody talks about football and medicine.
• 11: About how Saint Dignified Innocence is neither demure, nor virgin, nor marthir.
• 12: About how Mateo realises that he's jealous and no indigested.

Fifth season

• 1: About how Mateo recovered and tried to make things in another way.
• 2: About how Mateo finds Tom and the seagulls.
• 3: About how Ava Gardner passed through San Martín and Stayed forever.
• 4: About how Mateo realises that more mistakes can be made.
• 5: About how in San Martín, who does not run, sails.
• 6: About how Mateo takes back Adriana from the death.
• 7: About how San Martín shows that It's an exemplary village.
• 8: About how Mateo leaves San Martín without beans with clams.
• 9: About how the guilt made Mateo fall.
• 10: About how Mateo turned the love into friendship.
• 11: About how Mateo dreamt with Tom Again and told him something.
• 12: About how there are unbreakable chains.

External links

• Official website of Doctor Mateo
• Fan website about Doctor Mateo