{"id":3124,"date":"2025-07-11T16:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:11:53","slug":"ncis-why-mark-harmon-didnt-appear-in-the-david-mccallum-tribute-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3124","title":{"rendered":"NCIS: Why Mark Harmon Didn\u2019t Appear in the David McCallum Tribute Episode?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Monday (February 19) episode of NCIS was particularly remarkable because it paid tribute to the late David McCallum (aka Ducky). David died in September, at the age of 90.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Dietzen, the actor who plays Jimmy Palmer, wrote the episode. This post will contain episode spoilers, so if you haven\u2019t seen it yet, be warned.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Weatherly\u2019s Tony DiNozzo made a guest appearance, leaving many wondering why Mark Harmon\u2019s Gibbs was not featured as well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3125\" src=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1752250273672-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1752250273672-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1752250273672-768x707.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1752250273672.jpg 886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brian told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/ncis-season-21-episode-2-brian-dietzen-david-mccallum-ducky-farewell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Wrap<\/a>, \u201cI believe everyone would like to see Gibbs make an appearance at some time. That is such a beloved character in television history. I\u2019m pretty pleased with how [the scene] turned out. The way it works for Jimmy and Tony. There\u2019s a closeness and familiarity to it.<\/p>\n<p>Brian also mentioned that Mark had been in talks to return but was ultimately unable to appear due to scheduling issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monday (February 19) episode of NCIS was particularly remarkable because it paid tribute to the late David McCallum (aka Ducky). David died in September, at the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","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\/3124","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=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3126,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}