

Six years later, in March and April 2014, "Crescent City" and "Crescent City" both aired as part of NCIS Season 11. These two backdoor pilot episodes later resulted in the first ever NCIS spin-off series titled "NCIS: Los Angeles" starring Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J with NCIS: Los Angeles currently in its thirteenth season. On April and May 2009, "Legend Part 1" and "Legend Part 2" both aired as part of NCIS Season 6. In the season three premiere, "Kill Ari (Part I)", a freeze-frame shot was also used with the very end of most episodes turned into a freeze frame as well. These clips are shown at the beginning of every segment depicting the last two seconds of that segment, a segment being the 5–6 portions of the show meant to be separated by commercials. Jane Doe (episode), NCIS began showing two second long black-and-white clips known as Foofs. NCIS originally began as two backdoor pilot episodes, airing during JAG Season 8 with the two episodes, "Ice Queen" and "Meltdown" introducing the main NCIS team with the episodes airing in April 2003.įive or six months later in September 2003, the first ever NCIS solo episode, "Yankee White" and was originally referred to as Navy NCIS during season one "Navy" was later dropped from the title, resulting in it being named "NCIS". primetime TV series currently airing, surpassed only by Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–present), and is the 15th longest-running scripted U.S. It is the second longest-running scripted non-animated U.S. NCIS is the first member of the NCIS franchise. Bellisario and Don McGill served as NCIS's creators and executive producers, the two men also responsible for creating and producing JAG. Six months later, on September 23, 2003, NCIS premiered as a solo series with its series premiere episode, Yankee White (episode).

The concept of NCIS and its characters were originally introduced in two episodes of NCIS's parent series, "JAG", the JAG Season 8 episodes, Ice Queen (episode) and Meltdown (episode) which aired in April 2003. and takes place throughout the Capital Metro area and surrounding areas in Maryland and Virginia with some cases even taking place overseas in Afghanistan or Iraq although in real life, the NCIS series is in fact filmed in or around California with primary filming occurring at the Valencia Studios in Santa Clarita, Southern California. NCIS is an American police procedural drama television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S.
