The body of a woman Naval officer, a friend and classmate of Harm, is found ashore. Harm, Meg, and Alison investigate. Sparks fly between Harm and an NCIS agent. The body of another officer,... Read allThe body of a woman Naval officer, a friend and classmate of Harm, is found ashore. Harm, Meg, and Alison investigate. Sparks fly between Harm and an NCIS agent. The body of another officer, a suspect, is found. Harm winds up under arrest.The body of a woman Naval officer, a friend and classmate of Harm, is found ashore. Harm, Meg, and Alison investigate. Sparks fly between Harm and an NCIS agent. The body of another officer, a suspect, is found. Harm winds up under arrest.
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- TriviaCatherine Bell guest starred in the episode "Skeleton Crew" 29 May 1996 before she became a series regular as a different character.
- GoofsBud's explanation of the deck numbering system was in error. The uppermost full deck on a ship is the main deck. Going down, the decks are numbered 2, 3, 4, etc, with 2nd deck being the next deck below the main deck. Going up, the decks are number 01, 02, 03, etc., and are pronounced oh-one, oh-two, oh-three. They are called levels. On a carrier, although the flight deck is the uppermost full deck, it is the hangar deck that is the main deck. The flight deck is at the 04 level. The levels continue up through the island to approximately the oh-eleven level. The navigation bridge, where the Captain's chair is, is at the oh-seven level.
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Commander Alison Krennick: [about Rabb] NCIS is demanding to have him removed from the investigation.
Adm. Albert Jethro 'A.J.' Chegwidden: Demanding?
Commander Alison Krennick: Yes, sir. Specifically, the investigator on board the Seahawk. An agent "Turkey".
Adm. Albert Jethro 'A.J.' Chegwidden: "Turkey"? You're kidding me.
Commander Alison Krennick: No, sir.
Adm. Albert Jethro 'A.J.' Chegwidden: [laughing] And I thought "Chegwidden" was bad.
Commander Alison Krennick: He's demanding that Lieutenant Commander Rabb be removed from the investigation, sir.
Adm. Albert Jethro 'A.J.' Chegwidden: Nobody pulls a JAG officer off an investigation except me or God, and He hasn't asked.
- ConnectionsEdited into JAG: Death Watch (1998)
The episode was filmed as a complete episode, but it stands in the memory as being the first half of a planned two-parter which would span the summer of 1996, launching into Season Two around September of 1996. Except that THAT Season Two was never made; the NBC contract for the season was not renewed, so CBS picked up the Bellisarius product and dumped the "Skeleton Crew" cliff-hanger conclusion. Obviously the cast knew, by this point, that NBC had dropped the show - there is pathos when Meg Austin asks Harm (in the "shower scene") "what if you don't come back?"
Despite this, the cast deliver a creditable episode of murder investigation on an aircraft carrier.
Essentially, "part two" never happened (viewing this again in 2021, the episode is, accurately, entitled as simply "Skeleton Crew").
As a result, the "JAG" which we know and admire (seasons two through ten inclusive) was born. The short (13-episode) Season two began in the White House Rose Garden and the Harm-Mac working partnership was born, running Jan1997 to April2005.
The new (CBS) season two continued without characters such as Bud Roberts (he had picked up another contract), Andrea Parker (ditto - had secured a resounding role on "The Pretender" which ran for 86 episodes 1996-2000), Tracy Needham ("Meg Austin" - probably fed up with being the "damsel in distress", or the producers didn't like her character) and Andrea Thompson (who played "Alison Krennick" in the back half of Season One).
This material of this final Season One episode wasn't wasted however; apart from appearing on complete box sets, the episode was sampled in the S03EP19 story "Death Watch" - where Mac learns more about Lt (jg) Diane Schonke, who (in season 1) looked so much like her. She finally understands why Harm looked like he had "seen a ghost" in the Rose Garden scene which opened the CBS Season Two when the character of "Mac" was first introduced, thereby closing the Diane/Mac arc.
What is also noticeable, viewed from 22 years later (2018) is how far video recording and picture quality has advanced since this 1995-96 vintage episode was "filmed". The story-line remains crucial to the development of the "back-story" of the Harmon Rabb character.
- hindsonevansmike
- Jul 1, 2018
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