How many episodes are in NCIS: Origins?

NCIS: Origins has 18 episodes in this listed season.

When does NCIS: Origins premiere?

NCIS: Origins premieres on 2025-10-14.

Is NCIS: Origins a new series?

NCIS: Origins is a returning series (Season 2).

NCIS: Origins(2024)

Also known as NCIS : Origines

Archived · CBS

7.512+18 eps

S02

CrimeDramaAction

ON AIR: OCT 14Season 2Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

NCIS: Origins follows a young Gibbs cutting his teeth at the Naval Investigative Service in the 1990s, blending procedural crime momentum with a longer dramatic arc about professional identity taking shape. Cases move with purpose, but the structure leans toward accumulation rather than clean weekly resolution, so each episode adds something to who these people are becoming.

The workplace itself carries real dramatic weight. Boss and employee friction, the specific loyalties and rivalries that form among co-workers in an institutional setting, these pressures run alongside the investigations rather than sitting beneath them. Camp Pendleton and the broader Los Angeles environment give the action a grounded, urban-institutional texture that keeps the period detail functional rather than decorative.

Best for

workplace rivalry, boss employee rivalry and Crime

Story lane

Crime and Drama

Commitment

Season 2 · 18 episodes

Where

CBS

Official Premise

Follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs as he starts his career as part of the Naval Investigative Service operating out of Camp Pendleton.

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