Episode Title: "Navy NCIS: The Beginning"
Original Air Date: 10/21/2003
This episode of JAG is a combination / re-edit of "Ice Queen" and "Meltdown", which together served as a pilot for the new series Navy NCIS. During the first season of NCIS, the production team was a little pressed for time, so they came up with the brilliant, but confusing, idea of airing the original JAG episodes, in a specially edited version. Let me quote the Bellisarious Productions insider Kip from a few different messages on the NCIS-CBS yahoogroup:
Is there a reason next week we didn't see previews...pre empted for some reason....baseball? election? awards show? <yawn to all there if so> I want my NCIS.
Sorry, We just couldn't make the shows fast enough. So rather than take a pre-empt, we recut the two pilot JAG episodes into a one hour.
Just curious and I know a silly question - what is it going to be called?
It will technically be called JAG, although it will not have a JAG main title. It wil simply say JAG and the episode title will be "NAVY NCIS"
— http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NCIS-CBS/message/1641, Oct 15, 9:28a PDT
so will this count as a JAG episode, towards their ep count/credits, or an NCIS episode toward NCIS' count/credits?
It should be counted as a JAG re-run out of time period.
— http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NCIS-CBS/message/1643, Oct 15, 10:30a PDT
Who's responsible for the new version - did DPB say where to cut, or was it done by the editing department?
DPB cut it as a 1-hour pilot presentation last Spring. It's what CBS saw that made them decide to pick up the show. It was also shown by CBS to advertisers at the up-fronts in New York.
— http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NCIS-CBS/message/1717, Oct 16, 1:38p PDT
Just curious and I know a silly question - what is it going to be called?
It will have a straight printed title which says: JAG Under that will be: NAVY NCIS THE BEGINNING
— http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NCIS-CBS/message/1775, Oct 17, 11:29p PDT
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JAG
"Navy N.C.I.S
The Beginning"
Starring
David James Elliott [Commander Harmon "Harm" Rabb, Jr.]
Catherine Bell [Lt. Col. Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie]
Patrick Labyorteaux [Lt. Bud Roberts]
John M. Jackson as Admiral Chegwidden
Special Guest Star
Mark Harmon [NCIS Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs]
Guest Starring
Michael Weatherly [NCIS Agent Tony Dinozzo]
Pauley Perrette [NCIS Forensics Agent Abby Sciuto]
Robyn Lively [NCIS Agent Viv Blackadder]
Michael Muhney [Major McBurney]
Alicia Coppola [Lt. Cmdr. Faith Coleman]
Faran Tahir [Amad Bin Atwa]
W.K. Stratton [Cmdr. Teddy Lindsey]
Thomas Anthony Jones [_]
Zoe McLellan [PO Coates]
Karri Turner [Lt. Harriet Sims]
Tamlyn Tomita [Lt. Cmdr. Tracy Manetti]
Paul Norwood [_]
Joseph Hodge [_]
With
Alan Dale [NCIS Director Tom Morrow]
And
David McCallum [NCIS Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard]
Producer Don McGill
Producer Avery C. Drewe
Producer David Bellisario
Producer Philip DeGuere, Jr.
Supervising Producer Julie B. Watson
Co-Executive Producer Mark Horowitz
Co-Executive Producer Dana Coen
Co-Executive Producer Chas. Floyd Johnson
Co-Executive Producer Stephen Zito
Created by Donald P. Bellisario
Written by Donald P. Bellisario & Don McGill
"Ice Queen" Directed by Donald P. Bellisario
"Meltdown" Directed by Scott Brazil
Executive Producer
Donald P. Bellisario
NAVY
N C I S
Naval Criminal Investigative Service
Co-Producer Mark R. Schilz
Associate Producer Megan Mascena Gaspar
Story Editor Don McGill
Music by Steven Bramson
Theme by Bruce Broughton
Co-starring
Cathleen Gallagher Heather
Casting by Susan Bluestein, C.S.A.
& Cammille St. Cyr
Casting by Melissa Skoff, C.S.A.
Original Casting by Nan Dutton, C.S.A.
Director of Photography William Webb
Production Designer Robert J. Bacon
Edited by Stephen Michael
Randy D. Wiles
Unit Production Manager Mark R. Schilz
First Assistant Directors Robert Scott
Brian Faul
Second Assistant Director Suzanne Bornstein Saltz
Polly Mattson
Art Director Chas. Butcher
Set Decorator Lynn Wolverton Parker
Property Master George Tuers
Production Sound Mixer Sean Rush, C.A.S.
Music Editor Brian Kirk
Hair Stylist Carla Dean
Costume Supervisors Paul Dafelmair
Bruce Gareth Chen
Make-up Artists Phyllis Temple
Joe Hailey
Stunt Coordinator Diamond Farnsworth
Special Effects Coordinator Larry Fuentes
Construction Coordinator Thom Schaefer
Transportation Coordinator Greg Nutt
Location Managers Paul Brinkman
Marvin J. Bernstein
Technical Advisors Rick Warmack
Matt Sigloch, USMC (Ret.)
Production Coordinator Sara Chaiken
Pre-Production Coordinator Barbara Hecht
Post Production Coordinator Michael Horowitz
Assistant Editors J. Scott Harvey
Peter Keller
Script Supervisor Billie L. Mayer
Assistants to the
Executive Producers Patty Sachs
Rebecca Price
Debra Mayfield
Sara Jane Swanson
Production Accountants David Schiller
Ted Martinez
Main Title Design Castle/Bryant/Johnsen
Casting Executive Sheila Guthrie, C.S.A.
Sound Supervisor Greg Schorer
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