{"id":2948,"date":"2025-06-16T11:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2025-06-16T11:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:18:22","slug":"long-before-ncis-mark-harmon-took-a-swing-and-missed-in-this-forgotten-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=2948","title":{"rendered":"Long Before \u2018NCIS,\u2019 Mark Harmon Took a Swing \u2014 and Missed \u2014 in This Forgotten Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"post-1118 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized\">\n<div class=\"post-inner group\">\n<div class=\"entry themeform\">\n<div class=\"entry-inner\">\n<p>Today\u2019s generation may know Mark Harmon best for spending several years on the small screen playing seasoned Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS. But decades before he was rolling in the bank with the popular CBS procedural, Harmon was named the Sexiest Man Alive by People Magazine in 1986. That title had a double-edged sword effect in his film career, especially with the 1989 romantic comedy, Worth Winning.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1119\" src=\"https:\/\/viactors.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1000014917.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viactors.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1000014917.jpg 960w, https:\/\/viactors.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1000014917-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/viactors.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1000014917-768x384.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"480\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The Will Mackenzie film was one of many attempts to make Harmon the next major matin\u00e9e idol following his departure from the NBC hospital drama St. Elsewhere in 1986. After trying his hand at substitute teaching in Summer School and solving a murder alongside Sean Connery in The Presidio, Harmon tried to play into his good looks and natural comedic charm as a womanizing weatherman who takes extreme measures to win a bet against his friends. Despite Harmon\u2019s likable presence on screen, Worth Winning suffers from cringe-worthy hijinks that make it very uncomfortable to watch today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2949\" src=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FB_IMG_1750072633297-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FB_IMG_1750072633297-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FB_IMG_1750072633297.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s generation may know Mark Harmon best for spending several years on the small screen playing seasoned Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS. But decades before&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}