[quote=“Funk500”][quote=“scomargo”][quote=“Funk500”]His son Theo had dyslexia and basically everyone in the show was African American. Or a jazz musician.
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I’ll give you that, but I was really looking for the character’s name. It was the jazz musician clue that gave it away right 
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Cliff Huxtable. sorry, I’m not fully awake yet.
His mentor was Leonard Gillespie
This guy has been played by Adam West, Val Kilmer and Jason Robards Doc Holliday (and Dennis Quaid)
Lost a finger in a bar room fight that made him concentrate on piano correct Scomargo
His son Theo had dyslexia and basically everyone in the show was African American. Or a jazz musician. correct Scomargo half points
Bandleader in the electric mayhem Dr. Teeth
This hit show from the 1990’s was set in the US civil war and most men of a certain age would have given the lead actress one
God-awful 70’s band that had a member with a signature eye patch. Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Joseph Wiseman played him opposite Sean Connery
The monarch of Latveria and apparently the son of gypsies Dr. Doom
During filming this Michael J Fox discovered he had Parkinson’s disease Doc Hollywood
Nice one chief!
just 3 more to get
Easy peasy
Lemon squeezy
Win a date with Patrick Sweezy
'Cause he looks so Japaneesy
And he talks that Hakka-neesy
TomHill in memorarium
His mentor was Leonard Gillespie = Dr. Kildare
This hit show from the 1990’s was set in the US civil war and most men of a certain age would have given the lead actress one = Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
Joseph Wiseman played him opposite Sean Connery = Dr. No
As the chief got the most answers correct, he wins an all expenses paid trip to Tai Da Hospital to visit the doctor who syringed my ears!
Good luck to you Sir!