RIP M*A*S*H star William Christopher (Father Mulcahy) aged 84

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M*A*S*H star William Christopher dies - BBC News

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Grew up watching this series, loved it then, love it now. Father Mulcahy was a great character.

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Damn shame, but I fell out of love with the actor and therefore the character after reading one of Alan Alda's autobiographies. Christopher was so against M*A*S*H effectively cancelling itself (cast majority vote) that started to get quite abusive, as did Harry Morgan (and he did far worse in his life such as spousal physical abuse at age 81!) so they had AfterM*A*S*H created as a vehicle for them to star in. If you look really hard you can find AfterM*A*S*H on YouTube in terrible quality, it really stank as a show.

 

If you are looking for a M*A*S*H spin off take a look at Trapper John M.D. (where my handle comes from "Trapper" John McIntyre) set just after 'Nam. It is far superior.

 

I used to watch M*A*S*H all the time. Like Frasier during a hard time between late 2004 and 2010 it was my comfort show. I even have the whole set on Region 1 DVDs as the release schedule in the EU was about 18 months behind North America. A season came out every six months, and it was the last DVD/BluRay TV show I collected "live" upon release data from 2002 until the end. I need to replace season one as that's in the Europe style box. The same day season ten was released on DVD in North America they also released the whole damn lot in a brilliant box set with lots of extras, the film and was considerably cheaper!

 

The sun has really faded the colours on the DVD cases! Most are about 15 years old though.

 

 

Edited January 10, 2017 by Trapper