Question: why did mcintyre leave mash?
Answer: In 1975, Rogers left M*A*S*H after three years in a contract dispute and because he felt the writers were slighting Trapper John's character development. Essentially, his character had become the straight man to Alan Alda's endearingly wry Hawkeye character. ... We made a pact to give MASH all we had and it bonded us.