NCIS (franchise)

NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) is a media franchise of American television programs originally created by Donald P. Bellisario and currently broadcast on CBS, all of which deal with military related criminal investigations based on the Naval Criminal Investigative Service of the United States Department of the Navy, which includes the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.

In 2003, NCIS was introduced via a backdoor pilot, from the TV show JAG with NCIS in turn spinning off NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans in 2009 and 2014, respectively. NCIS: Los Angeles had a proposed spin-off, but it was later not picked up by CBS.

As of May 19, 2015, 449 episodes of the NCIS franchise have aired. The main NCIS series is the longest-running show of the franchise concluding its twelfth season and premiering season thirteen on September 22, 2015.

Overview

NCIS, voted America's favorite Television Series in 2011, finished its tenth season as the most-watched television series in the U.S. during 2012–13 and is broadcast in over 200 territories worldwide. As of the end of the 2014–15 TV season, NCIS remains TV's most watched drama series. Spin-off NCIS: New Orleans ended its first season as the second most watched drama on CBS, and the fifth most watched series on TV. NCIS: Los Angeles ended its fifth season as the fourth most watched series on TV, and the second most watched drama.

Franchise

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  • Media franchise, ownership of the characters and setting of a film, video game, book, etc., particularly in North American usage
  • A television franchise, a right to operate a television network.
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    Franchise is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the August 1955 issue of the magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the collections Earth Is Room Enough (1957) and Robot Dreams (1986). It is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac. It is the first story in which Asimov dealt with computers as computers and not as immobile robots.

    Plot summary

    In the future, the United States has converted to an "electronic democracy" where the computer Multivac selects a single person to answer a number of questions. Multivac will then use the answers and other data to determine what the results of an election would be, avoiding the need for an actual election to be held.

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    Spriggan (Japanese: スプリガン Hepburn: Supurigan) is a manga series written by Hiroshi Takashige and illustrated by Ryōji Minagawa. It was initially released as Striker in the North American English translation, as it is the English translation of the word "Spriggan" from Cornish.

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    Plot

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    NCIS

    NCIS or N.C.I.S. may refer to:

    Law enforcement

  • Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a United States law enforcement and intelligence agency that investigates crimes in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps and also investigates civilian crimes where the Navy has an interest.
    • Formerly NIS or Naval Investigative Service
  • Formerly NIS or Naval Investigative Service
  • National Criminal Intelligence Service, the predecessor to the Serious Organised Crime Agency of the United Kingdom
  • Entertainment

    Television

  • NCIS (franchise)
  • NCIS (TV series)

    NCIS 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. Navy and Marine Corps.

    The concept and characters were initially introduced in two episodes of the CBS series JAG (season eight episodes "Ice Queen" and "Meltdown"). The show, a spin-off from JAG, premiered on September 23, 2003, on CBS. To date it has aired for twelve full seasons and has gone into broadcast syndication on USA Network. Donald P. Bellisario is co-creator, along with Don McGill, as well as executive producer. The series is the first member of the NCIS franchise. It is the second longest-running scripted non-animated U.S. primetime TV series currently airing, surpassed only by Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–present), and is the 15th longest-running scripted U.S. primetime TV series overall.

    NCIS was originally referred to as Navy NCIS during season one; "Navy" was later dropped from the title as it was redundant (the "N" in "NCIS" stands for "Naval"). In season 6, a two-part episode led to a spin-off series, NCIS: Los Angeles. A two-part episode in season 11 led to a second spin-off series, NCIS: New Orleans.

    NCIS (season 3)

    The third season of the police procedural drama NCIS was originally broadcast between September 20, 2005 and May 16, 2006 on CBS. The third season opens in the aftermath of "Twilight", with the entire team in shock and Gibbs on a vendetta to seek revenge for Kate's murder. Matters are complicated by the intervention of Gibbs' former lover and new NCIS Director Jenny Shepard, and Mossad Officer Ziva David.

    Cast

    Main

  • Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Supervisory Special Agent assigned to Washington's Navy Yard
  • Michael Weatherly as Anthony DiNozzo, Special Agent, second in command
  • Cote de Pablo as Ziva David, Mossad Liaison Officer
  • Pauley Perrette as Abby Sciuto, Forensic Specialist attached to NCIS
  • Sean Murray as Timothy McGee, Special Agent
  • Lauren Holly as Jenny Shepard, NCIS Director
  • David McCallum as Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, Chief Medical Examiner
  • Supporting

  • Brian Dietzen as Jimmy Palmer, Assistant Medical Examiner
  • Joe Spano as Tobias Fornell, Senior FBI Special Agent
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