List of NCIS episodes
Encyclopedia
The following is a list of episodes of the television series
NCIS
. The program and its characters were introduced in a two-part episode of the CBS
television series JAG
in . The show premiered on , 2003, in the United States on CBS.
Created by Donald Bellisario
and Don McGill, NCIS follows Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs
(Mark Harmon
), Senior Field Agent Anthony DiNozzo
(Michael Weatherly
), Special Agent Timothy McGee
(Sean Murray), former Mossad officer/current Special Agent Ziva David
(Cote de Pablo
), who joined the team after the death of Special Agent Caitlin Todd
(Sasha Alexander
), Forensic Scientist Abby Sciuto
(Pauley Perrette
), Medical Examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum
) and his assistant Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen
), overseen by Director Leon Vance
(Rocky Carroll
), the replacement of deceased Director Jenny Shepard (Lauren Holly
), as they investigate crimes involving Navy
and Marine Corps
personnel. The ninth season of NCIS premiered on , 2011.
, 196 original episodes of NCIS have aired.
{| class="wikitable"
! style="padding:0 8px;" rowspan="2"| Season
! style="padding:0 8px;" rowspan="2"| Episodes
! style="padding:0 80px;" colspan="2"| Originally aired
! style="padding:0 80px;" colspan="3"| DVD
release date
|-
! Season premiere
! Season finale
! Region 1
! Region 2
! Region 4
|-
| style="background:#e3cd81; color:#100; text-align:center;"| Introductory
| style="text-align:center;"| 2
| style="text-align:center;"| April 22, 2003
| style="text-align:center;"| April 29, 2003
| style="text-align:center;"| March 17, 2009
included on JAG
season 8 DVD
| style="text-align:center;"| June 21, 2010
included on JAG
season 8 DVD
| style="text-align:center;"| August 5, 2010
included on JAG
season 8 DVD
|-
| style="background:#c28b6c; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 1
| style="text-align:center;"| 23
| style="text-align:center;"| September 23, 2003
| style="text-align:center;"| May 25, 2004
| style="text-align:center;"| June 6, 2006
| style="text-align:center;"| July 24, 2006
| style="text-align:center;"| August 10, 2006
|-
| style="background:#558899; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 2
| style="text-align:center;"| 23
| style="text-align:center;"| September 28, 2004
| style="text-align:center;"| May 24, 2005
| style="text-align:center;"| November 14, 2006
| style="text-align:center;"| October 2, 2006
| style="text-align:center;"| October 12, 2006
|-
| style="background:#b23249; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 3
| style="text-align:center;"| 24
| style="text-align:center;"| September 20, 2005
| style="text-align:center;"| May 16, 2006
| style="text-align:center;"| April 24, 2007
| style="text-align:center;"| June 25, 2007
| style="text-align:center;"| March 15, 2007
|-
| style="background:#60922f; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 4
| style="text-align:center;"| 24
| style="text-align:center;"| September 19, 2006
| style="text-align:center;"| May 22, 2007
| style="text-align:center;"| October 23, 2007
| style="text-align:center;"| May 19, 2008
| style="text-align:center;"| July 10, 2008
|-
| style="background:#127fc0; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 5
| style="text-align:center;"| 19
| style="text-align:center;"| September 25, 2007
| style="text-align:center;"| May 20, 2008
| style="text-align:center;"| August 26, 2008
| style="text-align:center;"| June 22, 2009
| style="text-align:center;"| May 7, 2009
|-
| style="background:#727972; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 6
| style="text-align:center;"| 25
| style="text-align:center;"| September 23, 2008
| style="text-align:center;"| May 19, 2009
| style="text-align:center;"| August 25, 2009
| style="text-align:center;"| August 2, 2010
| style="text-align:center;"| June 3, 2010
|-
| style="background:#e8dbb8; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 7
| style="text-align:center;"| 24
| style="text-align:center;"| September 22, 2009
| style="text-align:center;"| May 25, 2010
| style="text-align:center;"| August 24, 2010
| style="text-align:center;"| June 13, 2011
| style="text-align:center;"| July 7, 2011
|-
| style="background:#e8e8e8; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 8
| style="text-align:center;"| 24
| style="text-align:center;"| September 21, 2010
| style="text-align:center;"| May 17, 2011
| style="text-align:center;"| August 23, 2011
|
| style="text-align:center;"| September 1, 2011
|-
| style="background:#66CC20; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 9
|
| style="text-align:center;"| September 20, 2011
|
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|}
The first eight seasons have been released to Region 1
DVD
by Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment in the form of individual season box sets, which include behind the scenes features and cast and crew commentaries.
Paramount has also released the first six seasons on Region 2
and Region 4
DVD format.
" and "Meltdown", served as pilot episodes
for the show. The character Special Agent Vivian Blackadder (Robyn Lively
) does not appear in the series because producer Donald Bellisario felt that "she was a little soft for this kind of role". In , the two episodes were edited together and aired as "Navy NCIS: The Beginning".
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
NCIS
NCIS (TV series)
NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...
. The program and its characters were introduced in a two-part episode of the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
television series JAG
JAG (TV series)
JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...
in . The show premiered on , 2003, in the United States on CBS.
Created by Donald Bellisario
Donald Bellisario
Donald Paul Bellisario is an American television producer and screenwriter who created and sometimes wrote episodes for the TV series Magnum, P.I., Airwolf, Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS...
and Don McGill, NCIS follows Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Leroy Jethro Gibbs is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the CBS TV series NCIS. He is portrayed by Mark Harmon.-Background:...
(Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon is an American actor who has been starring in American television programs and films since the mid-1970s, after a career as a collegiate football player with the UCLA Bruins. Since 2003, Harmon has starred as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the CBS series NCIS.-Early life:Harmon was born Thomas...
), Senior Field Agent Anthony DiNozzo
Anthony DiNozzo
Anthony "Tony" D. DiNozzo Jr. is a fictional character from the CBS TV series NCIS. He is portrayed by Michael Weatherly.-Background:Tony comes from a wealthy family from Long Island, New York. He is an only child, but has been cut off from his family's fortune. His mother, maiden name Paddington,...
(Michael Weatherly
Michael Weatherly
Michael Manning Weatherly, Jr. is an American actor, best known for his roles as Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo on the television series NCIS, and Logan Cale on the television series Dark Angel.-Early life:...
), Special Agent Timothy McGee
Timothy McGee
Timothy "Tim" McGee is a fictional character from the CBS television series NCIS. He is portrayed by Sean Murray. Timothy McGee is a special agent investigating crime in this police procedural show...
(Sean Murray), former Mossad officer/current Special Agent Ziva David
Ziva David
Ziva David is a fictional character from the NCIS television series by CBS Television, portrayed by Chilean actress Coté de Pablo....
(Cote de Pablo
Cote de Pablo
María José de Pablo Fernández, better known as Coté de Pablo , is a Chilean-American actress and recording artist. De Pablo has won an ALMA Award for her role as NCIS Special Agent Ziva David in the television series NCIS...
), who joined the team after the death of Special Agent Caitlin Todd
Caitlin Todd
Special Agent Caitlin "Kate" Todd is a fictional character in the CBS drama NCIS, and was portrayed by actress Sasha Alexander.The character was introduced in the show's first episode "Yankee White" replacing Robyn Lively's character Vivian Blackadder which had appeared in the JAG Season 8 episodes...
(Sasha Alexander
Sasha Alexander
Sasha Alexander is an American actress. She is best known for several roles, including Gretchen Witter, the sister of Pacey Witter on Dawson's Creek; NCIS Special Agent Kate Todd in the first two seasons of NCIS; as Lucy in Yes Man ; and as Catherine in He's Just Not That Into You .She currently...
), Forensic Scientist Abby Sciuto
Abby Sciuto
Abigail "Abby" Sciuto is a fictional character from the NCIS television series by CBS Television, and is portrayed by Pauley Perrette. Like Jethro Gibbs, Anthony DiNozzo and Donald Mallard, Abby was first introduced in the episodes "Ice Queen" and "Meltdown" in the television show JAG, and has...
(Pauley Perrette
Pauley Perrette
Pauley Perrette is an American actress, best known for playing Abby Sciuto[p] on the U.S. TV series NCIS, a role that has made her the most popular actress on U.S. primetime television. She is also a published writer, a singer and civil rights advocate.-Early life:Perrette was born in New Orleans...
), Medical Examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum
David McCallum
David Keith McCallum, Jr. is a Scottish actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Illya Kuryakin, a Russian-born secret agent, in the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as interdimensional operative Steel in Sapphire & Steel, and Dr...
) and his assistant Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen
Brian Dietzen
Brian Dietzen is an American actor who has played the supporting role of Jimmy Palmer on NCIS since 2004.-Early life:Dietzen was born in Colorado...
), overseen by Director Leon Vance
Leon Vance
Leon Robert "Bob" Vance, Jr. was a Medal of Honor recipient who served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.-Early life and family:...
(Rocky Carroll
Rocky Carroll
Roscoe "Rocky" Carroll is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Joey Emerson on the FOX comedy-drama Roc, as Dr. Keith Wilkes on the medical drama Chicago Hope, and as Leon Vance on the CBS drama NCIS and its spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles.-Early life:Carroll was born Roscoe Fulton Carroll...
), the replacement of deceased Director Jenny Shepard (Lauren Holly
Lauren Holly
Lauren Michael Holly is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in the TV series Picket Fences, as Mary Swanson in the 1994 film Dumb & Dumber, and as Jenny Shepard on the TV series NCIS. She was married to comic actor Jim Carrey from 1996 to...
), as they investigate crimes involving Navy
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
and Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
personnel. The ninth season of NCIS premiered on , 2011.
, 196 original episodes of NCIS have aired.
Series overview
! style="padding:0 8px;" rowspan="2"| Season
! style="padding:0 8px;" rowspan="2"| Episodes
! style="padding:0 80px;" colspan="2"| Originally aired
! style="padding:0 80px;" colspan="3"| DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
release date
|-
! Season premiere
Season premiere
In North America, a season premiere is the first episode of a new season of a given television show. It often airs in September or October, after several months of reruns.-Evaluating the changes:...
! Season finale
Season finale
A season finale is the final episode of a season of a television program...
! Region 1
! Region 2
! Region 4
|-
| style="background:#e3cd81; color:#100; text-align:center;"| Introductory
| style="text-align:center;"| 2
| style="text-align:center;"| April 22, 2003
| style="text-align:center;"| April 29, 2003
| style="text-align:center;"| March 17, 2009
included on JAG
season 8 DVD
| style="text-align:center;"| June 21, 2010
included on JAG
season 8 DVD
| style="text-align:center;"| August 5, 2010
included on JAG
season 8 DVD
|-
| style="background:#c28b6c; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 1
| style="text-align:center;"| 23
| style="text-align:center;"| September 23, 2003
| style="text-align:center;"| May 25, 2004
| style="text-align:center;"| June 6, 2006
| style="text-align:center;"| July 24, 2006
| style="text-align:center;"| August 10, 2006
|-
| style="background:#558899; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 2
| style="text-align:center;"| 23
| style="text-align:center;"| September 28, 2004
| style="text-align:center;"| May 24, 2005
| style="text-align:center;"| November 14, 2006
| style="text-align:center;"| October 2, 2006
| style="text-align:center;"| October 12, 2006
|-
| style="background:#b23249; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 3
| style="text-align:center;"| 24
| style="text-align:center;"| September 20, 2005
| style="text-align:center;"| May 16, 2006
| style="text-align:center;"| April 24, 2007
| style="text-align:center;"| June 25, 2007
| style="text-align:center;"| March 15, 2007
|-
| style="background:#60922f; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 4
| style="text-align:center;"| 24
| style="text-align:center;"| September 19, 2006
| style="text-align:center;"| May 22, 2007
| style="text-align:center;"| October 23, 2007
| style="text-align:center;"| May 19, 2008
| style="text-align:center;"| July 10, 2008
|-
| style="background:#127fc0; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 5
| style="text-align:center;"| 19
| style="text-align:center;"| September 25, 2007
| style="text-align:center;"| May 20, 2008
| style="text-align:center;"| August 26, 2008
| style="text-align:center;"| June 22, 2009
| style="text-align:center;"| May 7, 2009
|-
| style="background:#727972; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 6
| style="text-align:center;"| 25
| style="text-align:center;"| September 23, 2008
| style="text-align:center;"| May 19, 2009
| style="text-align:center;"| August 25, 2009
| style="text-align:center;"| August 2, 2010
| style="text-align:center;"| June 3, 2010
|-
| style="background:#e8dbb8; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 7
| style="text-align:center;"| 24
| style="text-align:center;"| September 22, 2009
| style="text-align:center;"| May 25, 2010
| style="text-align:center;"| August 24, 2010
| style="text-align:center;"| June 13, 2011
| style="text-align:center;"| July 7, 2011
|-
| style="background:#e8e8e8; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 8
| style="text-align:center;"| 24
| style="text-align:center;"| September 21, 2010
| style="text-align:center;"| May 17, 2011
| style="text-align:center;"| August 23, 2011
|
| style="text-align:center;"| September 1, 2011
|-
| style="background:#66CC20; color:#100; text-align:center;"| 9
|
| style="text-align:center;"| September 20, 2011
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The first eight seasons have been released to Region 1
DVD region code
DVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...
DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
by Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment in the form of individual season box sets, which include behind the scenes features and cast and crew commentaries.
Paramount has also released the first six seasons on Region 2
DVD region code
DVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...
and Region 4
DVD region code
DVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...
DVD format.
Introductory episodes
The program and its characters are introduced during the eighth season of JAG. The JAG episodes, "Ice QueenIce Queen (JAG)
"Ice Queen" is an episode of the television series JAG and the first part of the pilot for its spin-off NCIS.-Synopsis:The Naval Criminal Investigative Service team is called to investigate the mysterious death of a Judge Advocate who is discovered by a boy scout searching for a stray arrow...
" and "Meltdown", served as pilot episodes
Television pilot
A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...
for the show. The character Special Agent Vivian Blackadder (Robyn Lively
Robyn Lively
Robyn Elaine Lively is an American actress. Lively is best known for her role in the film Teen Witch, as well as for her roles in the TV shows Doogie Howser, M.D., Twin Peaks, and Saving Grace.-Early life:...
) does not appear in the series because producer Donald Bellisario felt that "she was a little soft for this kind of role". In , the two episodes were edited together and aired as "Navy NCIS: The Beginning".
| JAG Series No. |
JAG Season 8 No. |
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