“M*A*S*H” star Mike Farrell visitors on “9-1-1” in his first display look in 7 years

A M*A*S*H alum has returned to the small display for the primary time in seven years.

Mike Farrell, who portrayed Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the hit struggle dramedy, visitor starred on season 9, episode 10 of 9-1-1 on Thursday.

Within the episode, Farrell portrayed Invoice Schneider, an aged man making an attempt to choose his girlfriend up on the airport — a lot to the chagrin of his son Andrew (Jason Grey-Stanford), who thinks his dad is susceptible to being catfished.

Farrell's final display look previous to 9-1-1 got here in 2019 when he portrayed Decide Miles Deakin in two episodes of NCIS season 16. Earlier than that, he performed Lee Miglin in two eps of Impeachment: American Crime Story in 2018, and recurred in seven episodes of the Jason Momoa crime collection The Crimson Street on Sundance TV in 2014 and 2015.

Farrell will subsequent seem within the impartial movie The Strawberry.

"It's actually a really considerate movie," the actor mentioned of the challenge in a 2025 interview with PEOPLE. "I play a personality who's gotten a analysis that's gonna imply he can't survive with the illness and what the method is to undergo with your loved ones … and it's a really, very deeply thought by script by a person who went by that together with his father."

Farrell has spent his latest years targeted on political advocacy. He has served because the president of Demise Penalty Focus, a nonprofit advocating for the abolition of the loss of life penalty, since 1994, and in 2025, he govt produced the documentary quick The Window on Demise Row, which chronicled the story of Joaquín José Martínez, a person who was exonerated from loss of life row.

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The actor additionally mirrored on engaged on M*A*S*H from 1975 to 1983 in his dialog with PEOPLE.

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"It stands out in my life's expertise as one of many nice intervals," Farrell mentioned final 12 months. "The mixture of what we had been doing, what we had been speaking about, what we had been displaying, the blood and guts degree of what we had been coping with, and the fact of what was happening round us on this planet on the time contributed to a very particular mixture of feelings and ideas and ideas and folks."

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