Mark Harmon to look on premiere of ‘NCIS’ prequel, ‘NCIS: Origins’

The NCIS–verse has expanded, and Mark Harmon continues to be alongside for the journey.

CBS introduced in January {that a} sixth spinoff sequence of the long-running military-police procedural was on its approach, and that the brand new present, known as NCIS: Origins, would deal with a youthful model of Harmon’s protagonist, Particular Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. We now know that Harmon, who narrated the unique sequence, may even tackle narrating duties for Origins, in addition to briefly seem within the pilot episode.

NCIS: Origins co-showrunner David J. North revealed on a latest panel that he, Harmon, and co-showrunner Gina Monreal got here to the choice collectively. Although Origins is “specializing in [narrator Harmon] telling the story of 1991,” he hinted that “so far as Mark showing once more, we’re open to something.”

Harmon appeared in 437 episodes of NCIS throughout 19 seasons. A Marine Corps scout sniper who’s tapped to command a workforce for the Naval Legal Investigative Service (NCIS), Harmon performs Gibbs with a single-minded focus and toughness that belies a delicate coronary heart.

Harmon left NCIS mid-season 19, explaining on The Kelly Clarkson Present in 2023: “For the longest time, I used to be simply drained,” he mentioned. “A part of taking the job [was] being residence — with a younger household — not touring as a lot doing motion pictures. [But] the primary day, we labored 22 hours. So I believed, ‘That is not precisely what I believed this was going to be.’ However we had loads of days like that within the first 4 years.”

However Harmon could not completely shake the character he’d performed for nearly 20 years; he reprised his position on a number of episodes of the spinoff NCIS: New Orleans, and has returned for his character’s origin story.

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Origins will see Harmon’s Gibbs on the outset of his profession, as a fresh-faced particular agent at NCIS’s Camp Pendleton workplace. He’ll be led there by a personality acquainted to NCIS followers: Particular Agent-in-Cost Mike Franks, performed by Muse Watson on the anchor sequence for 12 seasons and on Origins by Kyle Schmid.

Harmon will govt produce the sequence as nicely, alongside his son Sean. The coveted position of younger Gibbs not too long ago went to Austin Stowell who has appeared in movies like Whiplash and Bridge of Spies.

“We simply knew when Austin got here in that he was Gibbs,” Monreal not too long ago informed Leisure Weekly. “He embodied it. His expertise is limitless, his dedication to the position, finding out Mark, finding out the present — he has an identical management high quality that Mark had on set that bleeds into Gibbs the character.”

NCIS: Origins premieres on Monday, Oct. 14, at 10 p.m. ET/PT, on CBS.