{"id":3839,"date":"2025-11-15T22:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T22:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2025-11-15T22:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T22:46:48","slug":"is-mark-harmon-returning-to-ncis-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3839","title":{"rendered":"Is Mark Harmon Returning To NCIS in the Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The answer is maybe. Rocky Carroll, who has played NCIS Director Leon Vance since Season 5, hinted in a January 2023 interview with TV Insider that Harmon could return. \u201cI think as long as this show stays on the air, there will always be a little bit of a tease that we might see Gibbs again. Gibbs is the moral compass that we all wish we had,\u201d Carroll said.<\/p>\n

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Harmon also intimated in a featurette for the NCIS Season 19 DVD that Gibbs was written out in a way that allows for his return. \u201cI am not retired\u2026\u201d \u201cAs far as I know, the character lives in Alaska.\u201d Steven D. Binder, NCIS\u2019 executive producer and showrunner, repeated this idea in an October 2021 statement to Entertainment Tonight. \u201cAs an executive producer and dear friend, Mark remains an integral part of the show\u2019s fabric\u2026\u201d \u201cNever count Leroy Jethro Gibbs out,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n

NCIS\u2019 executive producer Chase Floyd Johnson also confirmed in the featurette that Harmon approved of how Gibbs was written out, hinting at his return. \u201cA very odd place to see Gibbs go, but Mark embraced it, the writers embraced it, and I think we handled it very well,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t say, \u2018I\u2019ll never come back.\u2019 There was sort of the hope that if there\u2019s ever a need, you might see Gibbs again.\u201d<\/p>\n

In summary, while there are no concrete plans, there is a possibility that Mark Harmon could return to NCIS in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The answer is maybe. Rocky Carroll, who has played NCIS Director Leon Vance since Season 5, hinted in a January 2023 interview with TV Insider that Harmon… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3839","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\/3839","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=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3841,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}