David James Elliott

David James Elliott plays Harm Rabb on JAG, the Navy lawyer with flight hours inside a procedural of uniforms, courtrooms, and a will-they that ran on protocol. The hour quietly built a franchise navy — Harm, Mac, military legal comfort food that hopped from NBC to CBS and then spawned NCIS. Elliott is the square leading man: sincere, durable, a Rabb who makes protocol look like romance.

NBC/CBS kept JAG on from 1995–2005. NBC to CBS hop. David supplies Harm Rabb as craft, not a borrowed cameo. The years on the spine are the file; what he does inside them is the craft.

Do not hunt a recap of David James Elliott. File s01e01 as the door. A New Life, part one: Navy lawyers with flight hours, protocol as romance, NBC still the first port. s02e01 is the turn. We the People: the hop toward CBS durability, Harm and Mac already military comfort food with a salute. JAG still argues at s03e01. Ghost Ship: procedural square enough to last a decade, cases still saluting before they cross-examine.

Sneakily durable if you like the crease in the uniform. On TV Flash Elliott is 1990s franchise craft: Harm as the reason a legal hour photographs as a flight suit, still the face that made a quiet hit look like a navy. David James Elliott stays Harm Rabb in the JAG drawer — NBC/CBS, 1995–2005 — and the temperature holds. JAG still needs Harm Rabb to look like a job, not a footnote. David remains legible in a single sitting if you give him a real hour.