Mark Harmon will make a full-time return to the NCIS-verse within the 2026-27 season.
Harmon will seem on display in each episode of prequel sequence NCIS: Origins, reprising his long-time NCIS function of Leroy Jethro Gibbs along with narrating and govt producing the sequence. Harmon guest-starred on the present final season as a part of a crossover with NCIS that spanned the prequel’s Nineties setting and the present-day world of the flaghship sequence. He additionally appeared within the sequence premiere in 2024.
Season three of Origins will take an analogous method, minus the crossover: It’s going to function Harmon as a part of a present-day thriller that connects to Gibbs’ time at Camp Pendleton within the ’90s and spans all the season. That closely serialized factor can also be one thing of a departure for the NCIS franchise, which has constructed a library of greater than 1,100 episodes throughout seven sequence (with an eighth, NCIS: New York, on the way in which) totally on the again of self-contained procedural tales.
CBS introduced Harmon’s return in a social media submit Tuesday; see it under.
Austin Stowell performs the youthful Gibbs in NCIS: Origins. Kyle Schmid, Mariel Molino, Tyla Abercrumbie, Diany Rodriguez and Caleb Foote additionally star.
Harmon performed Gibbs for 18-plus seasons on NCIS, departing a number of episodes into the 2021-22 season. He got here again into the franchise with Origins, which CBS ordered straight to sequence in 2024. CBS Studios produces the prequel and all different exhibits within the franchise.
David J. North is the showrunner for season three and govt produces with Mark Harmon, Sean Harmon, Michele Greco and NCIS: Los Angeles alum Eric Christian Olsen.
