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NCIS
508 episodes · 24 seasons · CBS · 2003
NCIS: 508 TV episodes in this catalogue. The Essentials keeps 61 episodes (12% of the catalogue).
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Season 123 episodes · 2 in The Essentials
01×01Yankee White
01×02Hung Out to Dry
01×03Seadog
01×04The Immortals
01×05The Curse
01×06High Seas
01×07Sub Rosa
01×08Minimum Security
01×09Marine Down
01×10Left for Dead
01×11Eye Spy
01×12My Other Left Foot
01×13One Shot, One Kill
01×14The Good Samaritan
01×15Enigma
01×16Bête Noire
01×17The Truth Is Out There
01×18UnSEALed
01×19Dead Man Talking
01×20Missing
01×21Split Decision
01×22A Weak Link
01×23Reveille
Season 223 episodes · 3 in The Essentials
02×01See No Evil
02×02The Good Wives Club
02×03Vanished
02×04Lt. Jane Doe
02×05The Bone Yard
02×06Terminal Leave
02×07Call of Silence
02×08Heart Break
02×09Forced Entry
02×10Chained
02×11Blackwater
02×12Doppelgänger
02×13The Meat Puzzle
02×14Witness
02×15Caught on Tape
02×16Pop Life
02×17An Eye for an Eye
02×18Bikini Wax
02×19Conspiracy Theory
02×20Red Cell
02×21Hometown Hero
02×22SWAK
02×23Twilight
Season 324 episodes · 5 in The Essentials
03×01Kill Ari (Part I)
03×02Kill Ari (Part II)
03×03Mind Games
03×04Silver War
03×05Switch
03×06The Voyeur's Web
03×07Honor Code
03×08Under Covers
03×09Frame-Up
03×10Probie
03×11Model Behavior
03×12Boxed In
03×13Deception
03×14Light Sleeper
03×15Head Case
03×16Family Secret
03×17Ravenous
03×18Bait
03×19Iced
03×20Untouchable
03×21Bloodbath
03×22Jeopardy
03×23Hiatus (Part I)
03×24Hiatus (Part II)
Season 424 episodes · 1 in The Essentials
04×01Shalom
04×02Escaped
04×03Singled Out
04×04Faking It
04×05Dead and Unburied
04×06Witch Hunt
04×07Sandblast
04×08Once a Hero
04×09Twisted Sister
04×10Smoked
04×11Driven
04×12Suspicion
04×13Sharif Returns
04×14Blowback
04×15Friends and Lovers
04×16Dead Man Walking
04×17Skeletons
04×18Iceman
04×19Grace Period
04×20Cover Story
04×21Brothers in Arms
04×22In the Dark
04×23Trojan Horse
04×24Angel of Death
Season 519 episodes · 3 in The Essentials
05×01Bury Your Dead
05×02Family
05×03Ex-File
05×04Identity Crisis
05×05Leap of Faith
05×06Chimera
05×07Requiem
05×08Designated Target
05×09Lost and Found
05×10Corporal Punishment
05×11Tribes
05×12Stakeout
05×13Dog Tags
05×14Internal Affairs
05×15In the Zone
05×16Recoil
05×17About Face
05×18Judgment Day Part I
05×19Judgment Day Part II
Season 625 episodes · 3 in The Essentials
06×01Last Man Standing
06×02Agent Afloat
06×03Capitol Offense
06×04Heartland
06×05Nine Lives
06×06Murder 2.0
06×07Collateral Damage
06×08Cloak
06×09Dagger
06×10Road Kill
06×11Silent Night
06×12Caged
06×13Broken Bird
06×14Love & War
06×15Deliverance
06×16Bounce
06×17South by Southwest
06×18Knockout
06×19Hide and Seek
06×20Dead Reckoning
06×21Toxic
06×22Legend (Part I)
06×23Legend (Part II)
06×24Semper Fidelis
06×25Aliyah
Season 724 episodes · 1 in The Essentials
07×01Truth or Consequences
07×02Reunion
07×03The Inside Man
07×04Good Cop, Bad Cop
07×05Code of Conduct
07×06Outlaws and In-Laws
07×07Endgame
07×08Power Down
07×09Child's Play
07×10Faith
07×11Ignition
07×12Flesh and Blood
07×13Jet Lag
07×14Masquerade
07×15Jack Knife
07×16Mother's Day
07×17Double Identity
07×18Jurisdiction
07×19Guilty Pleasure
07×20Moonlighting
07×21Obsession
07×22Borderland
07×23Patriot Down
07×24Rule Fifty-One
Season 824 episodes · 0 in The Essentials
08×01Spider and the Fly
08×02Worst Nightmare
08×03Short Fuse
08×04Royals & Loyals
08×05Dead Air
08×06Cracked
08×07Broken Arrow
08×08Enemies Foreign
08×09Enemies Domestic
08×10False Witness
08×11Ships in the Night
08×12Recruited
08×13Freedom
08×14A Man Walks Into a Bar…
08×15Defiance
08×16Kill Screen
08×17One Last Score
08×18Out of the Frying Pan…
08×19Tell-All
08×20Two-Faced
08×21Dead Reflection
08×22Baltimore
08×23Swan Song
08×24Pyramid
Season 924 episodes · 4 in The Essentials
09×01Nature of the Beast
09×02Restless
09×03The Penelope Papers
09×04Enemy on the Hill
09×05Safe Harbor
09×06Thirst
09×07Devil's Triangle
09×08Engaged (Part I)
09×09Engaged (Part II)
09×10Sins of the Father
09×11Newborn King
09×12Housekeeping
09×13A Desperate Man
09×14Life Before His Eyes
09×15Secrets
09×16Psych Out
09×17Need to Know
09×18The Tell
09×19The Good Son
09×20The Missionary Position
09×21Rekindled
09×22Playing with Fire
09×23Up in Smoke
09×24Till Death Do Us Part
Season 1024 episodes · 7 in The Essentials
10×01Extreme Prejudice
10×02Recovery
10×03Phoenix
10×04Lost at Sea
10×05The Namesake
10×06Shell Shock (Part I)
10×07Shell Shock (Part II)
10×08Gone
10×09Devil's Trifecta
10×10You Better Watch Out
10×11Shabbat Shalom
10×12Shiva
10×13Hit and Run
10×14Canary
10×15Hereafter
10×16Detour
10×17Prime Suspect
10×18Seek
10×19Squall
10×20Chasing Ghosts
10×21Berlin
10×22Revenge
10×23Double Blind
10×24Damned If You Do
Season 1124 episodes · 5 in The Essentials
11×01Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
11×02Past, Present, and Future
11×03Under the Radar
11×04Anonymous Was a Woman
11×05Once a Crook
11×06Oil & Water
11×07Better Angels
11×08Alibi
11×09Gut Check
11×10Devil's Triad
11×11Homesick
11×12Kill Chain
11×13Double Back
11×14Monsters and Men
11×15Bulletproof
11×16Dressed to Kill
11×17Rock and a Hard Place
11×18Crescent City (Part I)
11×19Crescent City (Part II)
11×20Page Not Found
11×21Alleged
11×22Shooter
11×23The Admiral's Daughter
11×24Honor Thy Father
Season 1224 episodes · 4 in The Essentials
12×01Twenty Klicks
12×02Kill the Messenger
12×03So It Goes
12×04Choke Hold
12×05The San Dominick
12×06Parental Guidance Suggested
12×07The Searchers
12×08Semper Fortis
12×09Grounded
12×10House Rules
12×11Check
12×12The Enemy Within
12×13We Build, We Fight
12×14Cadence
12×15Cabin Fever
12×16Blast from the Past
12×17The Artful Dodger
12×18Status Update
12×19Patience
12×20No Good Deed
12×21Lost in Translation
12×22Troll
12×23The Lost Boys
12×24Neverland
Season 1324 episodes · 2 in The Essentials
13×01Stop the Bleeding
13×02Personal Day
13×03Incognito
13×04Double Trouble
13×05Lockdown
13×06Viral
13×0716 Years
13×08Saviors
13×09Day in Court
13×10Blood Brothers
13×11Spinning Wheel
13×12Sister City (Part I)
13×13Déjà Vu
13×14Decompressed
13×15React
13×16Loose Cannons
13×17After Hours
13×18Scope
13×19Reasonable Doubts
13×20Charade
13×21Return to Sender
13×22Homefront
13×23Dead Letter
13×24Family First
Season 1424 episodes · 1 in The Essentials
14×01Rogue
14×02Being Bad
14×03Privileged Information
14×04Love Boat
14×05Philly
14×06Shell Game
14×07Home of the Brave
14×08Enemy Combatant
14×09Pay to Play
14×10The Tie That Binds
14×11Willoughby
14×12Off the Grid
14×13Keep Going
14×14Nonstop
14×15Pandora's Box (Part I)
14×16A Many Splendored Thing
14×17What Lies Above
14×18M.I.A.
14×19The Wall
14×20A Bowl of Cherries
14×21One Book, Two Covers
14×22Beastmaster
14×23Something Blue
14×24Rendezvous
Season 1524 episodes · 0 in The Essentials
15×01House Divided
15×02Twofer
15×03Exit Strategy
15×04Skeleton Crew
15×05Fake It 'Til You Make It
15×06Trapped
15×07Burden of Proof
15×08Voices
15×09Ready or Not
15×10Double Down
15×11High Tide
15×12Dark Secrets
15×13Family Ties
15×14Keep Your Friends Close
15×15Keep Your Enemies Closer
15×16Handle with Care
15×17One Man's Trash
15×18Death from Above
15×19The Numerical Limit
15×20Sight Unseen
15×21One Step Forward
15×22Two Steps Back
15×23Fallout
15×24Date with Destiny
Season 1624 episodes · 4 in The Essentials
16×01Destiny's Child
16×02Love Thy Neighbor
16×03Boom
16×04Third Wheel
16×05Fragments
16×06Beneath the Surface
16×07A Thousand Words
16×08Friendly Fire
16×09Tailing Angie
16×10What Child Is This?
16×11Toil and Trouble
16×12The Last Link
16×13She
16×14Once Upon a Tim
16×15Crossing the Line
16×16Bears and Cubs
16×17Silent Service
16×18Mona Lisa
16×19Perennial
16×20Hail & Farewell
16×21Judge, Jury…
16×22...and Executioner
16×23Lost Time
16×24Daughters
Season 1720 episodes · 5 in The Essentials
17×01Out of the Darkness
17×02Into the Light
17×03Going Mobile
17×04Someone Else's Shoes
17×05Wide Awake
17×06Institutionalized
17×07No Vacancy
17×08Musical Chairs
17×09IRL
17×10The North Pole
17×11In the Wind
17×12Flight Plan
17×13Sound Off
17×14On Fire
17×15Lonely Hearts
17×16Ephemera
17×17In a Nutshell
17×18Schooled
17×19Blarney
17×20The Arizona
Season 1816 episodes · 2 in The Essentials
18×01Sturgeon Season
18×02Everything Starts Somewhere
18×03Blood and Treasure
18×04Sunburn
18×05Head of the Snake
18×061mm
18×07The First Day
18×08True Believer
18×09Winter Chill
18×10Watchdog
18×11Gut Punch
18×12Sangre
18×13Misconduct
18×14Unseen Improvements
18×15Blown Away
18×16Rule 91
Season 1921 episodes · 4 in The Essentials
19×01Blood in the Water
19×02Nearly Departed
19×03Road to Nowhere
19×04Great Wide Open
19×05Face the Strange
19×06False Start
19×07Docked
19×08Peacekeeper
19×09Collective Memory
19×10Pledge of Allegiance
19×11All Hands
19×12Fight or Flight
19×13The Helpers
19×14First Steps
19×15Thick as Thieves
19×16The Wake
19×17Starting Over
19×18Last Dance
19×19The Brat Pack
19×20All or Nothing
19×21Birds of a Feather
Season 2022 episodes · 4 in The Essentials
20×01A Family Matter
20×02Daddy Issues
20×03Unearth
20×04Leave No Trace
20×05Guardian
20×06The Good Fighter
20×07Love Lost
20×08Turkey Trot
20×09Higher Education
20×10Too Many Cooks
20×11Bridges
20×12Big Rig
20×13Evil Eye
20×14Old Wounds
20×15Unusual Suspects
20×16Butterfly Effect
20×17Stranger in a Strange Land
20×18Head Games
20×19In the Spotlight
20×20Second Opinion
20×21Kompromat
20×22Black Sky
Season 2110 episodes · 0 in The Essentials
21×01Algún Día
21×02The Stories We Leave Behind
21×03Lifeline
21×04Left Unsaid
21×05The Plan
21×06Strange Invaders
21×07A Thousand Yards
21×08Heartless
21×09Prime Cut
21×10Reef Madness
Season 2220 episodes · 1 in The Essentials
22×01Empty Nest
22×02Foreign Bodies
22×03The Trouble with Hal
22×04Sticks & Stones
22×05In from the Cold
22×06Knight and Day
22×07Hardboiled
22×08Out of Control
22×09Humbug
22×10Baker's Man
22×11For Better or Worse
22×12Fun and Games
22×13Bad Blood
22×14Close to Home
22×15Moonlit
22×16Ladies' Night
22×17Killer Instinct
22×18After the Storm
22×19Irreconcilable Differences
22×20Nexus
Season 2320 episodes · 0 in The Essentials
23×01Prodigal Son (Part I)
23×02Prodigal Son (Part II)
23×03The Sound and the Fury
23×04Gone Girls
23×05Now and Then
23×06Page-Turner
23×07God Only Knows
23×08Stolen Moments
23×09Heaven and Nature
23×10Her
23×11Army of One
23×12In Too Deep
23×13All Good Things
23×14Fleeting
23×15Knick-Knack
23×16S.O.S.
23×17Reboot
23×18Bad Impressions
23×19Deal with the Devil
23×20Sons and Daughters
Season 241 episodes · 0 in The Essentials
24×01TBA
Where the story lives
researched-verified
The Mossad connection
18/25 kept · spine
The long manhunts
8/17 kept
Terror plots against the Navy
8/14 kept
The badge on the line
5/14 kept
The past Gibbs left behind
4/15 kept
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Common questions
How many episodes of NCIS are there?
Our stored catalogue lists 508 TV episodes across 24 seasons. For ongoing shows, this is not a live count of aired episodes.
Which episodes of NCIS can I skip?
The Essentials keeps 61 of the 508 episodes in our catalogue. The current path does not map seasons 23–24; those are research gaps, not skip recommendations. Read the path's coverage before treating omitted episodes as optional.
How long does it take to watch NCIS?
At two episodes per viewing day, our 508-episode catalogue takes 254 viewing days. Episode lengths vary, and days off extend the calendar time.
Does NCIS have filler?
447 episodes sit outside our selected route. That does not mean they are non-canon or poor episodes; it depends on the story you want to follow. The current path does not map seasons 23–24; those are research gaps, not skip recommendations.
