NCIS TV Series

Series Overview

This article provides an overview of the NCIS TV Series. NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series. The series centers around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the United States Navy and Marines.

Concept and Characters

The concept and characters were initially in a two-part episode of the CBS series JAG. The show premiered on the CBS Network on September 23, 2003, and aired seven seasons; and is now into syndicated reruns on the USA Network, Sleuth, and Ion Television. Donald Bellisario, who created JAG and the well-known Magnum, P.I., and Quantum Leap, is a co-creator and executive producer of the series.

NCIS was initially known as Navy NCIS during the first season. However, the word Navy was later dropped from the title because it was redundant (Navy is included in the acronym).

Production Company and Executive Producers

Belisarius Productions, Paramount Network Television (from 2003 to 2006), CBS Paramount Network Television (from 2006 to 2009), and CBS Television Studios from 2009 to the present produce the series. CBS Television Distribution is the distributor. The executive producers are Donald P. Bellisario and Chas. Floyd Johnson, Frank Cardea, Gary Glasberg, George Schenck, Mark Harmon, Mark Horowitz, and Shane Brennan.

List of NCIS TV Series Cast Members

• Anthony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly)
• Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette)
• Brian Dietzen
• Sasha Alexander as Caitlin Todd
• Cote de Pablo as Ziva David
• David McCallum, Doctor Donald “Ducky” Mallard
• Duane Henry
• Emily Wickersham
• Jennifer Esposito
• Lauren Holly
• Maria Bello
• Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs
• Michael Weatherly
• Pauley Perrette
• Rocky Carroll
• Sasha Alexander
• Sean Murray as Timothy McGee
• Wilmer Valderrama

List of NCIS TV Series episodes

The NCIS series has aired for an impressive 15 seasons with 354 episodes. The sixteenth season will begin airing in September 2018. Each episode ranges from 39 to 44 minutes. Visit the NCIS Wikipedia page for the series for a list of all episodes.

All of the episodes are available to stream online at Amazon Video. In addition, all seasons are available on DVD.

The first season has a total of 23 episodes.

• S1 E1 – Yankee White
• E2 – Hung Out to Dry
• E3 – Sea Dogs
• E4 – The Immortals
• E5 – The Curse
• E6 – High Seas
• E7 – Sub Rosa
• E8 – Minimum Security
• E9 – Marine Down
• E10 – Left for Dead
• E11 – Eye Spy
• E12 – My Other Left Foot
• E13 – One Shot, One Kill
• E14 – The Good Samaritan
• E15 – Enigma
• E16 – Bete Noir
• E17 – The Truth is Out There
• E18 – UnSEALed
• E19 – Dead Man Talking
• E20 – Missing
• E21 – Split Decision
• E22 – A Weak Link
• E23 – Reveille

Critical Response, Ratings, and Awards

The series was nominated for and won numerous awards, which helped it continue as the second longest-running prime-time TV series (the first is Law & Order). For example, the series won multiple ALMA Awards, Emmy Awards, People’s Choice Awards, and many others for acting, stunts, music, and more.

In addition, the show has numerous spin-offs and TV movies. For instance, NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans.

The series didn’t always garner high ratings. In the initial seasons, the show had relatively low ratings but slowly increased with each new season, leading it to be voted one of America’s favorite shows.

• Amazon Video viewers rate the show 4.5 out of 5 stars
• The series received 7.9 out of 10 stars on IMDB
• TV.com gives it 8.7 out of 10 stars
• 94% of Google users indicate they like the show

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