NCIS season 17
season of television series
The seventeenth season of NCIS, an American police procedural drama television series, originally aired on CBS from September 24, 2019 through April 14, 2020. The season was produced by Belisarius Productions and CBS Television Studios. The season only contained 20 episodes, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first, and so far only, season in the series to not end in the usual May. It’s also the first season to not feature Joe Spano as Tobias Fornell.
NCIS revolves around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
In May 2020, CBS renewed the series for an eighteenth season.
Cast and characters
Main
Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) of the Major Case Response Team (MCRT) assigned to Washington's Navy Yard
Sean Murray as Timothy McGee, NCIS Senior Special Agent, Second in Command of MCRT
Wilmer Valderrama as Nick Torres, NCIS Special Agent
Emily Wickersham as Eleanor "Ellie" Bishop, NCIS Special Agent
Maria Bello as Dr. Jacqueline "Jack" Sloane, NCIS Senior Resident Agent and Operational Psychologist
Brian Dietzen as Dr. Jimmy Palmer, Chief Medical Examiner for NCIS
Diona Reasonover as Kasie Hines, Forensic Specialist for NCIS
Rocky Carroll as Leon Vance, NCIS Director
David McCallum as Dr.
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