Best NCIS Episodes of All Time

by nickclennett | created - 27 Dec 2014 | updated - 27 Dec 2014 | Public

Containing the Best Episodes of NCIS to date. Currently accurate up to the Season 9 finale.

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1. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Call of Silence (2004)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Medal of Honor recipient from WWII turns himself in and confesses to the team the murder of his friend 60 years ago.

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 1,871

2. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: SWAK (2005)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tony opens a letter, literally SWAK, dispersing a fine white powder; the gang does the drill. Kate and Tony get a free trip to Bethesda. Gibbs and company find both the bad lady and the solution of a two-year-old rape case at the USNA.

Director: Dennis Smith | Stars: Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 1,370

3. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Hometown Hero (2005)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A hospital corpsman stows his gear in a self-store room; after 10 months he dies in action in Iraq; then the skeletal remains of a high-school friend turn up in his storeroom. Despite local resistance Gibbs and company solve the mystery.

Director: James Whitmore Jr. | Stars: Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 815

4. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Heartland (2008)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ambush in an alley behind a bar leaves one Marine dead and one very ill; the gang investigate. The survivor is from Gibbs's hometown, and the team goes there; flashbacks abound. The bunch put the pieces together and nail the bad guys.

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 1,265

5. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Yankee White (2003)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Aboard Air Force One a Naval officer dies after eating with the Potus, then a Marine officer (connected with AF1) also dies in Georgetown in the same way. Abby identifies the cause, and Gibbs thwarts an attempt to assassinate the PotUS.

Director: Donald P. Bellisario | Stars: Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 1,825

6. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Dead Man Walking (2007)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Navy lieutenant, a member of an international nuclear-inspection agency, asks Gibbs to solve the officer's own murder because he knows that someone has exposed him to radiation poisoning.

Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 1,030

7. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Dead Man Talking (2004)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A guard finds the disemboweled body of an NCIS agent in an elevator; the gang investigate. Gibbs feels responsibility. The victim has pursued a cold case involving a theft of $12M+ from the Navy. NCIS finds the thief and the killer.

Director: Dennis Smith | Stars: Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 1,124

8. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Once a Hero (2006)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama

At a hotel in Washington, a homeless hero Marine veteran falls to his death, and a maid finds the body of a 14-year-old girl. Gibbs and company investigate; Ducky, Abby, and McGee help, Lee goes undercover, and the team find the bad guys.

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 755

9. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Caged (2009)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An old skeleton comes to light; Gibbs sends McGee to question a prisoner convicted of murder in two identical cases; while he does so, other inmates kill a guard, seize McGee, and take over. McGee successfully negotiates and investigates.

Director: Leslie Libman | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 789

10. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Brothers in Arms (2007)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jen meets with an informant about the Frog, but someone kills the witness; Gibbs and company investigate. Jen obsesses about catching the Frog. Abby produces many answers; although the gang persist, they find a surprise but no Frog.

Director: Martha Mitchell | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 733

11. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: One Shot, One Kill (2004)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Marine recruiter dies in his office from a single shot; Gibbs and the gang investigate; then a second one dies likewise. The Gibbs group expect another murder, so they set a trap, and it works; Tony and FBI agents capture the sniper.

Director: Peter Ellis | Stars: Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 948

12. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Mind Games (2005)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Gibbs again questions a condemned serial killer whom he arrested 10 years before. The killer, three days from execution, has offered to reveal the locations of the bodies if he gets to talk with Gibbs. The gang solve that and much more.

Director: William Webb | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray

Votes: 907

13. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Light Sleeper (2006)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two Korean wives of Marine sergeants die in execution-style shootings; while the NCIS investigates, a third such wife disappears. The team find the wife, then identify the shooter and figure out the shooter and the changes in that person.

Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 782

14. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Bury Your Dead (2007)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tony meets Jeanne's father; Tony excuses himself to move his Mustang, which explodes while the gang watch; Ducky says that the victim is not Tony. The Frog meets Jen, but she lets him leave; Gibbs and others pursue him but arrive too late.

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 876

15. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Trojan Horse (2007)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

While Jen attends a conference in Paris, Gibbs serves as the acting director. When a taxicab delivers a fare to the NCIS headquarters, the passenger, a Yemeni, is DoA; the gang investigate. Jen diverts to Moscow, and many answers emerge.

Director: Terrence O'Hara | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 729

16. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Family (2007)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The NCIS gang investigate the death of a sailor in a hit-and-run wreck, which turns into a shoot-and-scoot; Ducky finds nearby the body of a young woman who gave birth and died before the wreck. The team figure out the lies and the case.

Director: Martha Mitchell | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 755



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