 Wayne Rogers (I) (qv), who played Trapper John in  _"M*A*S*H" (1972)_ (qv), turned down the role because he did not  want to play a doctor again on television. (He later played a doctor  on the television show _"House Calls" (1979)_ (qv), itself a spinoff  of a movie, _House Calls (1978)_ (qv).)