His chaplain role wasn't the usual Hollywood "religious people should be made fun of" role.
Quite true.
I'll forever remember the episode where he took a rare step to the fore when the 4077 had a visit by some celebrities.
One of the celebrities was a champion boxer who was greatly admired by Father Mulcahy (an avid boxer himself), but the boxer suffers a fatal stroke that leaves him in a coma for at least a day before succumbing.
While the boxer lies in a coma, Father Mulcahy sits down next to him, alone, then explains that he admired him so much from having seen him in a match years before in which he had stopped the match to save his opponent from the pummeling he had given him, showing what a true class he was, even in a boxing match.
Mulcahy also brings up during his monologue with the dying boxer how his own life philosophy had long been based upon a combination of Plato's idea of the "ideal plane" with the real world that the boxer had shown him in that match.
M*A*S*H* is on Netflix, and this particular episode is from Season 10, episode 19, titled "Heroes."
Also Sidney Freeman. Both Blake actors (movie/TV) died a day apart.Burns, Potter, Blake, Trapper, Flagg and Mulcahy are all gone from the MASH crew if I remember correctly. IF you look at their ages, most of them were born in the '30's or early '40's.
Thanks. I'll have to look it up. Though I don't have Netflix. Maybe it's on amazon prime.