NCIS (2003)
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From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has any connection to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 23 September 2003 |
| Status | Returning Series |
| Genre | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure |
| Created by | Don McGill and Donald P. Bellisario |
| Starring | Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama and Katrina Law |
| Seasons | 24 seasons, 513 episodes |
| Episode length | about 44 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 376 hours |
| Rated | TV-14 |
| Scores | TMDB users 7.6/10 |
Where to watch NCIS
NCIS is streaming on Netflix ($17.99 a month) in the US. It is also on Hulu ($18.99 a month), Fubo and Paramount+ ($13.99 a month). At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 9 months of Paramount+, or $125.91 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
NCIS is a procedural where the military hierarchy is the real villain, not the bad guys. It runs 44 minutes per episode. The hook is the bureaucracy itself: you are not watching to solve the case, you are watching to see how many times a colonel has to be told no. With 513 episodes across 24 seasons, you are looking at 376 hours of watching people in uniforms argue about jurisdiction. It is the television equivalent of a paperwork audit that never ends.
How it did with audiences
NCIS has no box office data. The show lived in living rooms, not theaters. On TMDB, users rate it 7.6 out of 10. That is a solid score for a procedural that runs for decades. It suggests viewers found comfort in the predictable. The numbers do not tell you why, but they confirm the habit stuck.
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Sources
- NCIS on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q4525 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “NCIS (TV series)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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