{"id":4054,"date":"2025-12-23T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:40:48","slug":"ncis-reaches-a-historic-milestone-cast-celebrates-500-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=4054","title":{"rendered":"NCIS Reaches a Historic Milestone: Cast Celebrates 500 Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NCIS<\/em>\u00a0has officially reached an incredible milestone, celebrating\u00a0<strong>500 episodes<\/strong>\u00a0of the long-running CBS hit. The current cast \u2013 including Sean Murray, Rocky Carroll, Wilmer Valderrama, Katrina Law, Gary Cole, Diona Reasonover, and Brian Dietzen \u2013 joined showrunner\u00a0<strong>Steven D. Binder<\/strong>\u00a0on set in Valencia, California, earlier this week to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration featured a festive toast and a special cake-cutting to honor the show\u2019s historic run. The landmark\u00a0<strong>500th episode<\/strong>\u00a0is set to air\u00a0<strong>Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at 8 p.m. ET\/PT<\/strong>\u00a0on CBS and Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p>Fans won\u2019t have to wait long for more episodes, either \u2013\u00a0<em>NCIS<\/em>\u00a0will air at least\u00a0<strong>two more episodes this month<\/strong>\u00a0before heading into its mid-season break.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Cast-of-NCIS-Celebrates-500-Episodes-1024x691.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Cast-of-NCIS-Celebrates-500-Episodes-1024x691.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Cast-of-NCIS-Celebrates-500-Episodes-300x202.webp 300w, 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loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NCIS-Cast-Celebrates-500-Episodes-Rocky-Carroll.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NCIS-Cast-Celebrates-500-Episodes-Rocky-Carroll.webp 919w, https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NCIS-Cast-Celebrates-500-Episodes-Rocky-Carroll-300x229.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NCIS-Cast-Celebrates-500-Episodes-Rocky-Carroll-768x585.webp 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"919\" height=\"700\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NCIS-Cast-Celebrates-500-Episodes-Brian-Dietzen.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" 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https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NCIS-Cast-Celebrates-500-Episodes-Wilmer-Valderrama-768x546.webp 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"985\" height=\"700\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NCIS-Cast-Celebrates-500-Episodes-Diona-Reasonover.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NCIS-Cast-Celebrates-500-Episodes-Diona-Reasonover.webp 591w, https:\/\/www.curiousworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NCIS-Cast-Celebrates-500-Episodes-Diona-Reasonover-246x300.webp 246w\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"720\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCIS\u00a0has officially reached an incredible milestone, celebrating\u00a0500 episodes\u00a0of the long-running CBS hit. The current cast \u2013 including Sean Murray, Rocky Carroll, Wilmer Valderrama, Katrina Law, Gary Cole,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4054","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\/4054","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=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}