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Wayne was also replaced in the spinoff, 'Trapper John, M. In Mail Call , Trapper becomes overwhelmingly homesick. He gets drunk, packs his duffel bag and tries to go AWOL, even knocking Hawkeye down when he tries to stop him.
But Frank then shows up and the drunken Trapper gets caught up in lampooning him and forgets all about deserting. At one point, Trapper was about to adopt a Korean orphan boy Kim , and was crushed when the boy's actual mother came looking for him. On two separate occasions, Margaret drunkenly professes her attraction to Trapper John.
After the first incident Hot Lips and Empty Arms during which he and Hawkeye dragged her into the shower to sober her up, she said to Trapper, "You're built, you son of a gun". The next morning at breakfast, he teased her by telling her that "last night" meant a lot to him and he wanted to know she was not "playing games". He even made Frank panic when he said: "To think of all those years I wasted taking showers by myself. Trapper also had a moral code, and though he was normally easygoing, he occasionally showed his dark side.
But Hawkeye stopped him before he did anything, gently reminding him that, being doctors, they were there to save lives, not take them. The strain and stress of being apart from his family, plus his alcohol addiction, caused Trapper to suffer a severe case of stomach ulcers which almost got him transferred home Check-Up , but when he finds out that the Army no longer discharges personnel for ulcers, Trapper is offered a transfer to another hospital for treatment, but decides to stay on at the th.
Early on, Trapper and Hawkeye were partners, both partaking in hedonistic pursuits and playing practical jokes on Majors Frank Burns and Margaret Houlihan. But by the end of the third season, Trapper was often treated more as a sidekick, which did not go unnoticed by Wayne Rogers ; when he accepted the role of Trapper John for the TV series he was told that Trapper and Hawkeye would be almost interchangeable equals, but this turned out to not be the case when Alan Alda was cast as Hawkeye.
Trapper's TV portrayal was further compromised when the producers decided that Hawkeye, not Trapper, was to be the chest cutter and therefore Chief Surgeon. By the third season, Rogers had grown weary of playing second banana, and even though Trapper's character was fleshed out more during the latter half of the third season, Rogers decided to depart at season's end, and his character had to be written out of the series.
According to Radar, after hearing the news, an ecstatic Trapper went streaking through the Mess Tent. In recent years he was a regular panelist on the Fox News stock investment show "Cashin' In. Wayne Rogers owned a home in Destin and was involved in many business ventures and charities on the Emerald Coast, according to the Northwest Florida Daily News. Some of his ventures extended to Tallahassee. He was also an investor in The Bank of Tallahassee, which opened in November of the same year.
Rogers said he began investing after he got one of his early acting jobs, a TV series called "Stagecoach West," in the early s. His first investment was buying an old building out of bankruptcy.
When it became clear audiences were more attached to Alda's performance the writers started giving him the best storylines and gags. By the time season 3 came around, Rogers started to feel the character had essentially become a sidekick and decided to leave the show. Rogers didn't appear on the series again, though the character earned his own series with Trapper John, M.
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