NCIS

[Muley Gil]

Tonight's episode was a memorial to Dr Donald "Ducky" Mallard MD, whose character was played by the late David McCallum. Very touching.

The late doctor's dog was named Solo!

I realize that many here don't care much for the series, but I find it nice when an important member of a show dies and is treated with respect.

 

[LVSteve]

Wish I had known that was on.

 

[BigBoy99]

We stopped watching the show when Abby left. It just wasn't the same and plots started getting weird.

 

[mike4sigs]

It is on to late for us so we DVR and watch it the next night.

 

[Tom S.]

One of my favorite lines from that show was when DiNozzo said to Gibbs he wondered what Ducky was like when he was younger and Gibbs replied: "Like Illya Kuryakin." DiNozzo got a puzzled look on his face and Gibbs walked off.

 

[wetdog]

Here's another one with Kate.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inkdfx496hU[/ame]

 

[Rodan]

We stopped watching the show when Abby left. It just wasn't the same and plots started getting weird.

My wife really likes the show, and we continued for a while, but Abby leaving was where it went off the rails for me. At this point, it's borderline unwatchable.

We recently started over with S1E1 on Paramount+ and are enjoying it again. I think we're up to season 5 now. It's still unrealistic, and a little ridiculous at times, but the original cast made it entertaining.

 

[VictorLouis]

I watched the 8 episodes of the recent NCIS: Australia.
I suspect that was a stop-gap during the writer's strike.
Not bad......

 

[Yaworski]

We stopped watching the show when Abby left. It just wasn't the same and plots started getting weird.

I stopped watching long before that. It seemed like every other episode was about someone from Gibbs' past who was out to kill him. Haven't missed the show.

Also, having spent two decades in the DC area, their idea of the local geography was bothersome at best. I recall an episode in which they were in Manassas Va and you could see the Capitol rotunda in the background.

 

[Rodan]

Also, having spent two decades in the DC area, their idea of the local geography was bothersome at best. I recall an episode in which they were in Manassas Va and you could see the Capitol rotunda in the background.

IIRC, most of the show is actually filmed in California.

 

[Toolguy]

I quit watching the Abby show when Abby left...

 

[Yaworski]

IIRC, most of the show is actually filmed in California.

I know, you can tell by the houses. However, you cannot see the Capitol from Manassas.

In more than one episode they'd drive from DC to Norfolk and right back again after picking up the suspect. They wouldn't even interrogate the suspect in Norfolk, they'd drive him back to the Navy Yard for the interrogation. Seems very inefficient to me.

Blue Bloods does similar stupid things. Danny's a detective in Queens so he goes to his sister in Manhattan to get a warrant. Different counties.

 

[ameridaddy]

Ducky was the only character I liked on that show. McCollum did a fine job of creating an interesting and likeable character.
The rest was utter unbelievable fantasy, especially when they all grab their gear and run out of the office for a gunfight.
The tech side was kind of fun fantasy, but those office types turning into supermen/superwomen at the usual gunfight conclusion, a middle aged man travelling the world as a super sniper, along with not ever having an older or ordinary looking woman in the cast, really put me off.

 

[Nevada Ed]

I remember him starting out in a "Spy Spoof" when I was a teen.

He matured, rater well, for a "Limie", don't you think?

 

[Rustyt1953]

"Limey" is a North American pejorative. It never bothered me as I was not a British sailor.

It irked mum no end.

 

[Eddie Southgate]

I continue ( like right at the moment ) to watch it on Netflix but they only have the first 15 seasons so I have not seen anything newer. I like it but I got to wonder how interested I would be in it now with most if not all of the original cast gone. No Ziva , No Tony, No Abby , No Gibbs , No Show . Only McGhee is left of the original crew from the first few seasons and he is the and being Bellisario's step son he can probably stay as long as he wants. Gonna miss seeing David McCallum , have watched him in many things through the years and always enjoyed his work.

 

[Rule3]

I watched the first several seasons in the beginning. It was a good show but then just the same old stuff
Usually happens when the main characters are no longer around, Then the absurd NCIS LA, what a ridiculous show!

 

[Rudi]

Have not seen it in many years. How did he die/go away in the show?

 

[Muley Gil]

Have not seen it in many years. How did he die/go away in the show?

He died in his sleep.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

We own the first 4 seasons and have a marathon very other year.

Ivan

 

[boykinlp]

I watched it last night. I was always a Ziva David fan! The one thing that I noticed about the show last night was that Gibbs was completely absent. Tony came back, and flashbacks showed many of the other main characters, but I don’t remember seeing Jethro at all. Being that they were so close for so many years, I was surprised, and disappointed.
Larry

 

[SMSgt]

I thought it was a very well-done tribute to a fine actor and better person.

 

[LVSteve]

One of my favorite lines from that show was when DiNozzo said to Gibbs he wondered what Ducky was like when he was younger and Gibbs replied: "Like Illya Kuryakin." DiNozzo got a puzzled look on his face and Gibbs walked off.

I love little acknowledgements to old TV shows or movies like that. In the remake of "Clash of the Titans", the major characters are gearing up for their trip to the witches when Perseus finds the little mechanical owl from the original movie on a shelf. He looks at it curiously, then the head of the place guard tells him to put it back. "We won't be needing that".

 

[LVSteve]

I watched the 8 episodes of the recent NCIS: Australia.
I suspect that was a stop-gap during the writer's strike.
Not bad......

...except that I doubt the Aussies would let them run around with guns all the time.

 

[Puller]

I watched it last night. I was always a Ziva David fan! The one thing that I noticed about the show last night was that Gibbs was completely absent. Tony came back, and flashbacks showed many of the other main characters, but I don’t remember seeing Jethro at all. Being that they were so close for so many years, I was surprised, and disappointed.
Larry

There were actually several flashback scenes with Gibbs.

 

[S&W Fan]

Sorry I missed it. Stopped watching two seasons ago. I got hooked when I was laid up from a motorcycle crash in 2009 and spent my days on the couch watching reruns on USA network. Liked it so much I named my late rottie/lab mix Ziva .

My brother and I watched Man From U.N.C.L.E. as kids, I even had an "UNCLE" cap gun haha.

I read a recap of this episode on the net this morning and was pleased how they handled his passing. Oh and I always found Abbey beyond annoying lol.

 

[wood714]

We stopped watching the show when Abby left. It just wasn't the same and plots started getting weird.

That's when I stopped watching it too.

Ellie Bishop was my favorite of all the girls that came and went.

 

[jdh]

Some can't seem to realize it is a fictional drama not a documentary. For example it you do the math Gibbs is in his 60s, maximum age for a federal LEO is 57. So if it were true to reality Gibbs would have been forced to retire years ago.

Ducky referred to his mother's Corgies as those wretched little dogs and gave them away but ended up getting another for himself?

I happen to find the Kasey character more believable than the Abby character.

Brian Dietzen (Palmer) co-wrote the episode, BTW.

And with that I'll stop.

 

[biku324]

I've just never understood long-standing public fascination with cop shows.

 

[Rustyt1953]

re crime dramas: one of the seven basic plots is "good guy vs bad guy where bad guy gets comeuppance.

That is gratifying to most readers/viewers.