NCIS season 10

The tenth season of NCIS an American police procedural drama series originally aired on CBS from September 25, 2012, through May 14, 2013. The season was produced by Belisarius Productions and CBS Television Studios.

Main

 * Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) of the Major Case Response Team (MCRT) assigned to Washington's Navy Yard
 * Michael Weatherly as Anthony DiNozzo, NCIS Senior Special Agent, second in command of MCRT
 * Cote de Pablo as Ziva David, NCIS Special Agent
 * Pauley Perrette as Abby Sciuto, Forensic Specialist for NCIS
 * Sean Murray as Timothy McGee, NCIS Special Agent
 * Brian Dietzen as Jimmy Palmer, Assistant Medical Examiner for NCIS
 * Rocky Carroll as Leon Vance, NCIS Director
 * David McCallum as Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, Chief Medical Examiner for NCIS

Recurring

 * Alan Dale as Thomas Morrow, Homeland Security Section Chief and former NCIS Director
 * Joe Spano as Tobias Fornell, FBI Senior Special Agent
 * Joel Gretsch as Stan Burley, NCIS Special Agent Afloat on the USS Borealis and former member of Gibbs' team
 * Michael Nouri as Eli David, Mossad Director and Ziva's father
 * Ralph Waite as Jackson Gibbs, Gibbs' father
 * Paula Newsome as Jackie Vance, Leon Vance's wife
 * Robert Wagner as Anthony DiNozzo, Sr., Tony's father
 * Diane Neal as Abigail Borin, CGIS Special Agent in Charge
 * Matt Craven as Clayton Jarvis, Secretary of the Navy
 * Akinsola Aribo as Jared Vance, Leon Vance's son
 * Kiara Muhammad as Kayla Vance, Leon Vance's daughter
 * Daniel Louis Rivas as Kyle Davis, Abby's brother
 * Melinda McGraw as Diane Sterling, Gibbs' and Fornell's ex-wife
 * Matt L. Jones as Ned Dorneget, NCIS Special Agent
 * Richard Schiff as Harper Dearing, NCIS target
 * Gabi Coccio as young Ziva David
 * Greg Germann as Jerome Craig, NCIS Assistant Director
 * Oded Fehr as Ilan Bodnar, NCIS target
 * Marina Sirtis as Orli Elbaz, new Mossad Director
 * Damon Dayoub as Adam Eshel, Ziva's contact
 * Colin Hanks as Richard Parsons, DoD Inspector

Guests

 * Muse Watson as Mike Franks, deceased retired Senior Special Agent for NCIS and Gibbs' former boss
 * John M. Jackson as A. J. Chegwidden, lawyer, and former Judge Advocate General
 * Jamey Sheridan as Admiral John McGee, McGee's father

Development
NCIS was renewed for a tenth season on March 14, 2012. NCIS was renewed for an eleventh season on February 1, 2013.

Casting
In June 2012, Entertainment Weekly reported that Brian Dietzen had been promoted to a series regular for this season. John M. Jackson will reprise his role as A.J. Chegwidden in the season finale of NCIS.

Broadcast
Season ten of NCIS premiered on September 25, 2012 on CBS.

Reception
On January 15, 2013, the episode "Shiva" delivered the biggest audience ever so far for an NCIS episode. 22.86 million people watched the episode, which surpassed the season eight episode "Freedom" by 10,000 viewers.

Season ten of NCIS also got to deliver its first place ratings achievement for the 2012–13 United States network television season. NCIS beat out NBC's Sunday Night Football to become the overall most watched program nationally.