NCIS is a global TV franchise, but what about the predecessor that made it all possible? JAG, the military legal drama from which NCIS spun off, marked the 20th anniversary ...

Still, some of the actors, notably David James Elliott and Catherine Bell, appeared during earlier seasons of both NCIS and ...

As NCIS season 23 waits for its premiere, the idea of reviving the show's original parent series could help it solve some its ...

Two episodes of JAG in 2003 introduced Mark Harmon’s Leroy Jethro Gibbs, setting him up to lead the story of NCIS. After NCIS premiered, JAG ran for two more seasons before concluding its run.

So who knows." The characters of NCIS were first introduced in two episodes of JAG: Season 8, Episodes 20 and 21, "Ice Queen" and "Meltdown" in a backdoor pilot.

JAG was the springboard for it. Don McGill, JAG producer and NCIS co-creator: Don Bellisario gave me my first job on JAG.

Like NCIS, JAG is a drama set in the world of the U.S. Navy. It focuses on judge advocates, or military lawyers, as they work on various criminal cases.

More Originally conceived as a spinoff to the show JAG, NCIS became an even bigger success and has turned into the third longest-running primetime drama in television history. The show follows a ...

Michael Weatherly had already been around the TV block quite a bit before JAG and NCIS came his way, with him being best known at the time for playing Logan Cale in Dark Angel. Playing Tony ...

With the Navy NCIS name, CBS also hoped to lure in JAG viewers interested in more military-focused stories, creator Don Bellisario told The New York Times in 2005. But he didn’t care for the name.