Was it ever explained? Which episode?

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Tino4586 — 19 years ago(June 03, 2006 12:18 PM)

Was it ever explained? Which episode?

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Sjbradford — 19 years ago(June 03, 2006 03:23 PM)

No - there was no mention. When the second season began, Clayton was the Chief of Staff, with no mention of Taylor. It's funny - there were two Taylors (David Hedison in the pilot, then Lewis J. Stadlen), and they still dumped the character.

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WickedLester — 19 years ago(June 03, 2006 10:00 PM)

I liked Taylor better than Clayton for Benson to spar with. Clayton was just a copy of Major Winchester from MAS*H
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VoodooChicken — 19 years ago(June 04, 2006 08:59 AM)

Clayton is awesome!!! The Taylors, especially the pilot one, were too stiff. Rene is the greatest! He's been a regular on three different spin-offs without having his character introduced on the original.
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nygoodliving — 19 years ago(June 04, 2006 11:29 AM)

I always thought that Taylor was written out for Clayton because Taylor was much too stiff. Clayton at least had character even if he was too uptight.

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cadillackin — 19 years ago(July 25, 2006 11:43 PM)

They dumped David Hedison after the pilot because he was too tall and played Taylor as too menacing.
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jpowell180 — 11 years ago(December 27, 2014 04:05 PM)

Which is funny as the actor who portrayed Clayton played the original Father Mulcahy in the Robert Altman MASH film

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amyghost — 11 years ago(December 28, 2014 08:33 AM)

I agree; I thought that Clayton was something of a broad ripoff of the Maj. Winchester character. Taylor was more the believable bureaucratic type, but still funny. Much as I like Rene Auberjonois, I thought they made his character entirely too OTT and goofy as the series went along.