"I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV" is from what product's commercial?

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"I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV" is from what product's commercial?

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Last updated Jun 22 2021.

LeoDaVinci
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LeoDaVinci
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Wasn't it Peter Bergman as Dr. Cliff Warner from "All My Children"? It was a 1986 commercial for a cough syrup.

January - A Vicks Formula 44 ad premieres, starring Peter Bergman from All My Children, in which he told the viewing audience "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV." This phrase, first used in the early 1970s by Robert Young of Marcus Welby, M.D. fame, was subsequently parodied in many pop culture references.

https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/1986_in_television

Response last updated by CmdrK on Jun 22 2021.
Jun 19 2004, 11:27 PM

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Before Cliff it was Dr. Larry (Michael Storm) from One Life to Live and it was a headache medicine, either Tylenol or Excedrin.

Jun 20 2004, 7:44 AM