NCIS has been running since 2005, making it just as old as YouTube and just as indispensable for many people. The successful crime series has numerous spin-offs that follow a team of Navy CIS agents in Hawaii, LA and Sydney. Now a new spin-off has been announced that will delight fans in several ways.
This has never happened before on NCIS: Mark Harmon is getting his own prequel series about the beginnings of Leroy Jethro Gibbs
In the 4th episode of the 19th season of NCIS, Mark Harmon left his series as the main protagonist from the first hour – that was two years ago. He remained as a producer, but his character Leroy Jethro Gibbs retired from the series. Mark Harmon left it open whether he and the character would ever return. As Deadline reports, the actor is anything but idle and is giving NCIS fans an absolute novelty: a prequel series in 1991.
The new series entitled NCIS: Origins takes place 14 years before the first episode of the parent series. Don’t worry: Mark Harmon returns not with a digital makeover, but as Narrator of the series. Young Gibbs will be recast. There are no official candidates yet. In NCIS, Harmon’s own son Sean Harmon plays young Gibbs, but he will only appear behind the camera as a producer in the prequel series.
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Mark Harmon’s son Sean Harmon in Nacy CIS
In NCIS: Origins, Gibbs is just beginning his career as an NCIS agent. Fans will be particularly pleased that a dead character from NCIS will play an important role in the prequel series: NCIS legend Mike Franks. In the parent series he was played by Muse Watson, who dies in season 8, but Gibbs appears from time to time.
The new Navy CIS series could already End of 2024 will be launched and a whole season has already been ordered. Sean and Mark Harmon assert: “Even the most loyal NCIS fans will discover that they don’t yet know the whole story.”