NCIS is a drama series that features a fictional criminal investigative team led by Special Agent Jethro Gibbs who’s played by Mark Harmon.  The team always works on major criminal offenses within the navy. This series produced by Donald Bellisario is a spin-off of JAG which was also produced by him.  NCIS is supposedly based in Washington but the series is actually shot in Santa Clarita, California. The current investigative team is composed of Gibbs, Anthony Dinozzo(played by Michael Weatherly), Ziva David(played by Cote de Pablo) and Timothy McGee(played by Bellisario’s stepson, Sean Murray). NCIS has been shown on CBS since it first came out in September 2003.  It will return for its ninth season in September.