Klaus Hinrichsen - NCIS Season 1--16: NCIS TV Show Fan Book

The book is based on articles from magazines, newspapers and other books as well as the Internet. Although the author never intended to use any lines from the various sources without stating so, it cannot be totally ruled out, that the one or other great line, read in the odd article, found its way into the book by pure chance. With this book the author only tried to give all the NCIS fans a complete book on the NCIS-TV-series seasons 1-16. The author holds no connection what so ever with Belisarius Productions, CBS Broadcasting or Paramount Pictures.

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Printed in Germany

ISBN: 978-3-7504-7486-4

NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) is a special unit to investigate any offenses that are finally brought to the Navy court concerning members of the Navy or Marine Corps at home and abroad, and it is unimportant whether the concerned are involved as perpetrators or victims. In everyday life in addition to the most absurd criminal cases the special agents are in particular involved in the fight against terrorism, and also tasks of protections against espionage are part of their daily business.

Previously, the NCIS investigation authority in contrast to FBI and CIA investigations were rather unknown, but this has changed due to the massive success of the TV series. The use of special advisers, especially of real NCIS agents during the filming convey to the viewer an intense authenticity and regularly provides exciting entertainment.

After a sluggish first series start NCIS is now the world's most successful television series ever and has now completed twelve seasons which each enjoyed huge viewership, the final of the 14th Season was aired in the U.S. on CBS in May 2017. In Germany, Season 16 runs since the beginning of January 2018 on SAT 1. On April 11, 2019 NCIS was renewed for a seventeenth season, that premiered on September 24, 2019.

The concept of the television series is basically nothing new - previously there were already successful series like CSI, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY, all based on the exciting, audience captivating investigations in the crime lab with all its technical aspects. Excessive success of NCIS is not necessarily due to the cases which are certainly full of suspense, but it is probably owed to this incredibly well put together NCIS team, led by the rotten mouth, edgy, strict but also very fair special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Each figure in the team has a unique character, with all the associated strengths and weaknesses, who the audience feels quickly attracted to and perhaps secretly dreams to be able to belong to such a dream team in real life. So one can easily ignore a perhaps less exciting case and enjoy the always funny dialogues of the team members, i.e. the viewer can almost always be fascinated in a humorous way. Another important point of difference to the CSI franchise is that NCIS is not confined almost to one specific place, but in particular the investigations outside the lab play an important role.

The previously aired 370 episodes in 16 seasons offered compelling, exciting entertainment. Besides tragic, sometimes even sad moments, the series offered a dash of dry humor that made the audience, whatever the generation they belong to start to love each member because of his/her personal charm. Based on this success, a branch of NCIS was created in 2009: NCIS: Los Angeles. In season eleven, NCIS led to second spin-off series, NCIS: New Orleans.

The always thrilling and entertaining cases of Leroy Jethro Gibbs (cover shot), played by Mark Harmon, and his NCIS-crew have been keeping a vast amount of followers all around the world glued to their seats and have made this series to one of the most successful in our times. Most likely being the absolute number one series on TV in the USA and in many other countries.

This fan book, covering season 1-16, includes all the vital and necessary information on the series, short summaries of all episodes, coverage of the role vitas and the famous actors and - it goes without saying - Gibbs, Tony, Kate, Ziva, McGee, Abby, Bishop, Palmer, Ducky's best lines.

Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of NCIS.

Note: Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps.

NCIS is the most watched TV series that airs during both halves of the television season in the United States, followed by CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Both shows are from CBS. In 2011, NCIS was voted Americas favorite television show. The series finished its tenth season as the most-watched television series in the U.S. during the 201213 TV season

On January 15, 2013, NCIS surpassed its previous series high in viewers from Season 8 episode "Freedom". The Season 10 episode "Shiva" attracted 22.86 million viewers, making it a new series high.

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ALMA Award

Nominated Outstanding Actress in a Drama Television Series Cote de Pablo (2008)

Won Outstanding Actress in a Drama Television Series Cote de Pablo (2011)

Nominated Favorite TV Actress-Drama Cote de Pablo (2012)

ASCAP Award

Won Top TV Series Matt Hawkins, Maurice Jackson, Neil Martin (2012)

Won Top TV Series Matt Hawkins, Maurice Jackson, Neil Martin (2011)