Mark Harmon will likely be available to assist introduce Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ backstory.
The actor, 73, who portrayed Gibbs on NCIS from 2003 to 2021, will seem within the subsequent installment of the crime-fighting franchise.
In keeping with TVLine and Deadline, NCIS: Origins co-showrunner David J. North revealed throughout a panel dialogue with reporters on Thursday, Sept. 19, that Harmon would briefly seem on the present’s Monday, Oct. 14 premiere, along with narrating the collection and being certainly one of its government producers.
“That was a dialogue between Mark, myself and [co-showrunner] Gina Monreal. I hope the viewers will likely be excited to see him after so a few years,” mentioned North, per the shops.
Whereas North did not reveal any further particulars about Harmon’s on-screen look, he did not rule out the potential of having Harmon seem in future episodes. “We’re specializing in him telling the story of 1991. So far as Mark showing once more, we’re open to something,” North mentioned.
A synopsis for the brand new collection explains that it follows a younger Gibbs (Austin Stowell) in 1991, years earlier than the occasions of NCIS.
“Within the collection, Gibbs begins his profession as a newly minted particular agent on the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton workplace, the place he forges his place on a gritty ragtag staff led by NCIS legend Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid),” the synopsis provides.
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In a November 2023 dialog with PEOPLE, Harmon mirrored on his tenure on the beloved present and expressed gratitude for its ability to allow him to have a work-life balance.
“It was essential to have the ability to make pancakes on Saturday morning, And there have been some occasions the place that meant not sleeping,” he mentioned. “You simply got here residence and took a bathe and got here again down. And but I look again at it and I do not miss the sleep.”
“I nonetheless missed issues. I used to be working, however I have been a part of their lives,” he mentioned.
Whereas he admitted that there have been some lengthy days, he “labored 22 hours,” Harmon added, “I used to be in a position to make breakfast on the weekend. I am not about to complain about any of it.”
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NCIS: Origins premieres on Monday, Oct. 14 on CBS.