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Alec Baldwin is making headlines with his recent paparazzi scuffle just as much as his roles in 30 Rock and Rock of Ages. Now, we're flashing back to his first-ever ET interview in 1983, when he was a former soap star playing a doctor on the short-lived primetime TV series Cutter to Houston…

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Baldwin displays his solid good looks and trademark sense of humor in his first ET sit-down as he describes how comically lax the directors on The Doctors were when it came to medical specifics on the soap.

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Surely those experiences led to some of Baldwin's most memorable SNL sketches?