27-07-2025
David James Elliott is ready to bring back 'JAG' with Catherine Bell: 'There's always a chance'
The legal procedural ended two decades ago, after 10 seasons. But Elliott tells EW at Comic-Con that he's open to revisiting the show.
2025 marks 20 years since JAG aired its final episode — and series star David James Elliott thinks that's enough time away to justify revisiting the Emmy-winning legal procedural.
During a visit to Entertainment Weekly's Comic-Con video studio Saturday to promote his new supernatural horror series Revival, Elliott was asked whether he'd ever consider stepping back into the fastidiously polished shoes of Lt. Harmon Rabb Jr.
"I mean, there's always a chance," Elliott says.
His Revival castmate Andy McQueen adds, "I think its a good idea!"
JAG was created by prolific screenwriter and TV producer Donald P. Bellisario, who came to the project in 1995 having already ushered series like Magnum, P.I. and Quantum Leap into the world. The series follows a group of JAGs, or Judge Advocate Generals, a corps of legal advisors who serve under the jurisdiction of the U.S. military. JAG in particular zoomed in on a subset of JAGs within the Navy led by Elliott's character, Harm."Don Bellisario is still alive. I mean, it's his 90th birthday coming up," Elliott says. "Certainly I think it would be interesting. I would be down for it, but I don't know if it involves me. You know those reboots, they go, 'Yeah, thank you. We got new guys!'"
One could argue that JAG — or at least the world it created — never really went off the air. In 2003, JAG aired a two-episode arc as part of its eighth season that introduced a whole new roster of characters from the JAG corps' sister agency, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, Alan Dale, David McCallum, and Alicia Coppola all went on to reprise their characters in a little show called NCIS, which JAG so graciously provided a backdoor pilot for.
In 2019, Elliott reprised his JAG character on an episode of the NCIS spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles. He appeared alongside Catherine Bell, who played Lt. Colonel Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, Harm's best friend, work wife, almost real wife, and off-and-on love interest for nine of the series' 10 seasons.
Mac addressed the years since their last meeting during their stint on NCIS: LA. "It's been nine years, Harm," she said. "Why?"
Harm romantically responded, "I don't know, but we're way past letting fate decide."
While there are no concrete plans of a JAG revival (at least that we know of), NCIS will soon be getting its sixth spinoff when NCIS: Tony & Ziva reunites Weatherly's Tony and Cote de Pablo's Ziva David in the original article on Entertainment Weekly
