December 2, 2024 | 1 Comment
These 23 unforgettable TV characters deserve the NCIS: Origins backstory treatment — because their untold pasts are just too good to ignore
Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard
The incomparable Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard is the Chief Medical Examiner on NCIS.
Dr. Mallard is a Scottish-born doctor who has been long-time friends with team leader Gibbs, and underwent medical education at the University of Edinburgh.
He has a “second talent,” as Gibbs calls it, to be able to read people, which he expands by studying psychology in his free time. Standard leisure activity.
In cases without actual bodies for Abby and Co. to work with, he assists by using his psychological training to decipher the clues left by the perpetrators.
Duck is an eccentric who often talks to the deceased while doing his job and rambles to his colleagues with many long, off-topic personal remembrances or historical accounts.
He’s a kind man at heart, however.
He lived with his aging mother and their four corgis until she had to move out due to Alzheimer’s.
Mallard drives a Morgan he restored himself. The ring tone on his phone features bagpipes playing “Scotland the Brave.”
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February 20, 2024 | 1 Comment
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February 19, 2024 | 0 Comments
On NCIS Season 21 Episode 2, as NCIS mourns the loss of Ducky, the agents find comfort in working on one of his unfinished cases involving a Marine’s daughter.
December 20, 2023 | 0 Comments
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November 27, 2023 | 0 Comments
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September 26, 2023 | 0 Comments
Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, and more NCIS stars are paying tribute to David McCallum, who died this week. Get the details inside. May he rest in peace.
September 25, 2023 | 0 Comments
Tragic news out of the TV world as it has been revealed that David McCallum, who played Ducky on all 20 seasons of NCIS, has died. May he rest in peace.
November 25, 2020 | 0 Comments
Our review of NCIS Season 18 Episode 2, the series’ 400th episode, reveals how Gibbs and Duck’s long-running friendship got started 40 years ago.