NCIS is a family affair: Mark Harmon’s son has played a key role on the show since 2008, and we just found out…
Do you remember JAG? Well, this legal-military drama isn’t just one of the most memorable procedural series of the mid-’90s, it’s also the mother of one of the most popular television sagas of our century: we called NCIS, the CBS series — or rather, the franchise is now the third longest-running non -animated series on American television.
With 20 seasons under its belt and the 21st on the way, without us realizing it, NCIS: Special Investigations – to give it its full French name – has, as Espinof reports, proved to be a family saga. .
A FAMILY MATTER
With the exception of Sean Murray, who played Timothy McGee in 442 episodes, the main cast of NCIS’ first season is no longer part of the show’s cast. It also includes Mark Harmon, who is now serving as a producer and described the 2019 production as a “family affair”.
His words weren’t insignificant because, first of all, Sean Murray is himself the stepson of famous series creator Donald P. Bellisario – his mother married him. Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars) also played Murray’s character’s sister on the show – whose half-sister she is in real life. And yes, as her last name would suggest, she is the daughter of Donald Bellisario. In 2022 we could also see Cay Ryan Murray daughter of Sean Murray play hacker Teagan Fields in 1 episode, or even Pam Dawber wife of Mark Harmon play 7 episodes in 2021 of a character named Marcie Warren Breathing life But this “family affair” is not over yet.
CBS Studios Sean Murray and Cay Ryan Murray in NCIS
It turns out Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber have two sons named Ty and Sean, and the latter has also turned to comedy… and has had a very special role on NCIS since 2008: that of Leroy Jethro Gibbs. If that name sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the very character of his father, whose young version he’s portraying on the show.
CBS Studios Sean Harmon in “NCIS”
So NCIS is a family affair, an affair that has spawned many spin-offs and is still very successful today – and one that we certainly haven’t finished hearing about.
Watch NCIS: Special Investigations streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+.