A new NCIS series is coming and it’s a double surprise: Mark Harmon returns as Gibbs and we finally get to know his beginnings
Navy CIS has been running since 2005, making it just as old as YouTube and for many just as hard to imagine life without it. The successful crime series has numerous spin-offs that follow a team of Navy CIS agents in Hawaii, L.A. and Sydney. Now a new spin-off has been announced that will delight fans in more ways than one
Never seen before on Navy CIS: Mark Harmon gets his own prequel series about the beginnings of Leroy Jethro Gibbs
In the 4th episode of the 19th season of Navy CIS, Mark Harmon left his series as the lead actor from the first hour – that was two years ago. He stayed on as a producer, but his character Leroy Jethro Gibbs has retired from the show. Whether the character and he will ever return was left open by Mark Harmon. However, as Deadline reports, the actor is anything but idle and is giving Navy CIS fans an absolute novelty: a prequel series in 1991.
The new series, entitled NCIS: Origins, is set 14 years before the first episode of the parent series. Don’t worry: Mark Harmon is not returning with digital rejuvenation, but as the narrator of the series. The young Gibbs will be recast. There are no official candidates yet. In Navy CIS, 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 Navy CIS 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
