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Bernard Fox

Birthday: May 11, 1927 Birth Place: Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK

"From Tripoli to Timbuktu, I beg I plead, I beseech of you , a moment longer do not stay , come to me come to me, Doctor Bombay !!" A familiar refrain in the Stephens' household upon calling for the ultimate in Witch doctors - Doctor Bombay. Known for his eye for the ladies and his sloppy diagnosis ,Bombay has been Sam's family doctor for centuries . Possessing the bed side manner of an orang-utan (as Uncle Arthur once put it) a check up from Bombay is likely to include hair pulling , dust blowing and tuning fork tapping. Whenever "Bombs-away" one of his many attractive, female, Nurses would stand in for him - none of which would know much about medicine as that's not what they've been trained in! Devoting a lot of time to his "sporting" activities Bombay never seems to show when needed. Sam once had to go to the top of Mount Everest to find him. Not because he was the best but as Sam put it once "lay off him , he's the only one we've got !"