{"id":4307,"date":"2026-03-23T22:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:58:25","slug":"ncis-fans-have-been-wrong-about-gibbs-most-important-rule-all-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=4307","title":{"rendered":"NCIS Fans Have Been Wrong About Gibbs\u2019 Most Important Rule All Along"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that we\u2019re going to see\u00a0Mark Harmon\u00a0onscreen again as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, what are the chances he reprises the role again in the future? He\u2019s appearing in the Tuesday, November 11,\u00a0NCIS<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0NCIS: Origins<\/em> crossover, in the first hour, the prequel\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Harmon admits to TV Insider. \u201c[Showrunners]\u00a0Gina [Lucita Monreal]\u00a0and\u00a0David [J. North]\u00a0had an idea. I obviously like them, I admire \u2019em, worked with \u2019em for a very long time. They\u2019re very good. They had an idea, and I liked the idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He continues, \u201cI try really hard to think about what\u2019s best for the show or what possibly can work for this show. But part of that also is giving them the ability to write what they feel is right for the reasons they feel it\u2019s right. I try hard not to bother them, not to make their job harder than it is, and it\u2019s plenty hard just developing this new show. And I\u2019m reminded by that because it\u2019s exactly what the mothership was when it first debuted. And this is on a similar path, which is not a bad idea if it works. So, we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harmon starred as Gibbs on\u00a0NCIS<\/em>\u00a0for 18 full seasons before exiting as a series regular in its 19th. He hasn\u2019t been seen onscreen since on the mothership, though he remains an executive producer. He\u2019s also an EP on\u00a0Origins<\/em>, where he narrates every episode as the series follows the young version of his character, played by\u00a0Austin Stowell, in his early days at NIS (the agency name change is coming soon). He did appear onscreen in the\u00a0Origins<\/em>\u00a0premiere; the prequel shows him still in Alaska as he looks back on his past.<\/p>\n

As for how settled Gibbs is in Alaska, \u201cI think he\u2019s very comfortable on his own. He probably has more challenges being around lots of people than he does being alone,\u201d Harmon tells TV Insider before pointing to Monreal and North\u2019s tease that he\u2019s no longer alone in the crossover.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to help them. It\u2019s why the voiceover thing was something that they pitched from the beginning in the idea of this show, and it keeps me physically involved. It\u2019s something I do, like, every 10 days, I go in and do however many loops we have or shows we have to do,\u201d he adds. \u201cAnd that narrative has been fun to try to get behind and understand things that were just during the course of the show presented weekly that you just took as being true and move forward. But now maybe you get a chance now to understand a little more or to find a little more, or even show how it was developed because you\u2019re a number of years advanced to what we\u2019ve already shown audiences. And that\u2019s been an interesting process for me from the beginning, sitting in that room and watching actors come through the door to play people that you knew later in their lives. So it\u2019s all been new and that\u2019s pretty interesting on a show that\u2019s 20 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you want to see Mark Harmon onscreen again after the crossover? How? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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