Trapper John, M.D.

She did them all.

Charlie's Angels, Dukes of Hazard, and then in '83, Trapper John, M.D., and that was it.

Huh.

Um.

It is Trapper-

Trapper John, M.D.

Trapper John, M.D.

Yes.

Didn't even let me-

I'm sorry.

He-

Just as your mouth opened, I heard the British accent and I went, "Trapper John, M.D. Oh, it's Scottish." What do we care?

You know him as?

Trapper John.

Trapper John M.D. Yeah, I watched that show.

And he was also Adam Cartwright in Bonanza.

Yeah.

And then the Jeffersons would be the other thing.

I think I did give Trapper John a shot because at this point there were like maybe three MASH spinoffs.

that were all god-awful.

In fact, it was this weird thing where they took comedic characters from comedic dramas and then just tried to make them fetch in dramas.

That was

true on a lot of 70s and 80s Mad Magazine parodies.

even cracked um yeah this episode of trapper john sounds kind of interesting though it says fun cure is no laughing matter for trapper trapper's patient is in the hands of a man who preaches laughter as the true medicine will she die laughing is faith healer a death dealer God damn it.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What city's Memorial Hospital, that's capitalized, does Trapper John M.D. patrol?

What city?

Yep.

You know, Lorna, star of Broadway stage and national theatrical tours, on the big screen, including Grease, Where the Boys Are, on television.

You know, she starred as Nurse Kirby Legler on CBS's Trapper John, M.D. How many of you remember that? That was for seven seasons.

And of course, in live concerts.

Today, Lorna enjoys performing with her evenings of cabaret, performing to sold-out audiences every time.

Our listeners lo-

Well, thank you for saying it

... well, our listeners love to learn more and more and put all the pieces together of what they sort of already know, but now it's all organized, you know? I think about it, you know, Lorna, today you are recognized for your extensive career on stage, and I keep thinking from Once Upon a Time, Grease 2, in the TV show Trapper John, M.D., on the concert stage.

You're an Emmy-nominated documentarian and the daughter of the legendary entertainer Judy Garland and Hollywood movie producer Sid Luft.

So I really wanted to be a surgeon that, or a doctor, I should say, that knew how to do everything.

I grew up watching MASH and Trapper John MD, which is a very, very old, old TV show.

But the bottom line is, you do, okay.

But I really wanted to learn and do everything.

Yeah, Gregory

Harrison would come over from Trapper John.

And I thought he had been on the show.

We got him to do the podcast.

For Tom Cruise, this would be his third movie, and also his first leading role, after his blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in the 1981 Brooke Shields movie Endless Love, and his powerhouse performance as the troubled David Shawn in Harold Becker's Taps, which we covered on this show last year.

For Shelley Long, this would be her third movie as well, including a major role in the 1981 Ringo Starr comedy Caveman, after years of single-episode guest roles in shows like The Love Boat, Family, Trapper John M.D., and M.A.S.H. For John Stockwell, this would be his second movie after a small role in the 1981 Ryan O'Neill comedy So Fine.

And for John P. Navin Jr., this would not only be his second film, but his second film in which he would share screen time with Tom Cruise, having played a younger cadet in Taps.

Once production completed on December 4th, the actors would move on to their next projects.