How to become a recurring character

Happy Memorial weekend Friday question day. What's yours?Steve starts us off:I'm curious about recurring characters. Do writers have any say over who comes back when, or is it the producers/someone else? Take Colonel Flagg on M*A*S*H as an example. Could you just write him into an episode, or are you instead told, "Hey, we want Colonel Flagg back. Write a story for him."?Characters become

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