Season 1

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Tessa Quinn · Spoiler-Free (Mostly)

Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents solve military-linked crimes with found-family banter and Gibbs's rules. Mark Harmon became a quiet ratings titan; the squad room is the serialized story. Sturdy CBS comfort that outlived fashion and multiplied into a carrier group of spinoffs.

TV Flash files Season 1 of NCIS (2003–present) on CBS as the first listed season of 24 — 23 listed hours, 2003-09-23–2004-05-25 from “Yankee White” (S01E01) to “Reveille” (S01E23). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S01E01 Yankee White

   Yankee White is origin night: Naval investigators, Mark Harmon as quiet ratings titan-in-waiting, the squad room already the serialized story.