NCIS Sets Date For First Crossover With NCIS: Origins — Watch Announcement

NCIS is turning back the clock for its next crossover.

For the first time, the flagship NCIS will cross paths with prequel NCIS: Origins in a two-hour crossover event airing Tuesday, Nov. 11 on CBS, the network announced Thursday.

On NCIS: Origins, airing at 8/7c, "Gibbs and team investigate the small-town death of a naval officer in the '90s," and then on NCIS, airing at 9 pm, the same case is "unexpectedly re-opened in the present day." Series stars Wilmer Valderrama (NCIS) and Austin Stowell (NCIS: Origins) unveiled the crossover news in a video, which you can watch above.

This marks the first crossover for NCIS: Origins, which debuted last October with Stowell starring as a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the role famously played by Mark Harmon on the original NCIS. But the NCIS franchise has played host to many crossovers in the past, of course — most recently in 2024, with NCIS crossing over with the since-cancelled NCIS: Hawai'i.

Aside from crossovers, the NCIS franchise returns to CBS with new episodes on Tuesday, Oct. 14, with Season 23 of NCIS leading off the night at 8 pm, followed by Season 2 of NCIS: Origins at 9 pm and Season 3 of import NCIS: Sydney at 10 pm.

Press PLAY above to hear from Wilmer and Austin, and let us know what you hope to see in the decades-spanning crossover in the comments.