‘NCIS’ Says Goodbye to Mark Harmon After 18 Years
BY RICK PORTER | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment The longtime lead of the CBS series had signed on for only a limited number of episodes in 2021-22. Leroy Jethro Gibbs has worked his last case. Monday’s episode of NCIS was Mark Harmon’s final one as the lead of the long-running CBS procedural. He exits the show after 18 years of playing Gibbs, dating back to the character’s introduction on JAG in 2003. Speculation around Harmon’s exit has swirled for several months. He signed a deal to continue with NCIS (on which he’s also an executive producer) for its 19th season, but that deal was only to return in a limited…