Dr. Bombay

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This article refers to a television series character. Dr. Bombay is also a pseudonym of musician Jonny Jakobsen.

Dr. Bombay is a fictional warlock character who appeared on eighteen episodes of the television series Bewitched (originally broadcast from 1964 to 1972). The role of Samantha's family "witch doctor" was played by actor Bernard Fox. He once reprised the role for the eventual spinoff series, Tabitha. Although fond of Samantha, he tends to regard her husband Darrin with little more than amused contempt.

Usually summoned by an incantation such as "Calling Dr. Bombay. Emergency. Come right away!", he would appear in an outrageous costume, appropriate for whatever bizarre activity he had been interrupted doing, with or without the attractive "nurses" whom he so loved to chase. His antidotes for witch diseases and spells gone awry would often cause complications of their own.