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NCIS SCRIPTWRITER
Donald P. Bellisario


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Episode Nº / Name / Written Solo or Co-written with / CBS synopsis below
1.01 YANKEE WHITE - Written Solo.
CBS Episode synopsis: While on Air Force One, a Navy Commander dies, Agents from NCIS decide to take the investigation into their own hands and coerce Secret Service Agent Kate Todd to help. Now the NCIS team has to figure out if the Navy Officer's death was of natural causes or not.
1.03 SEADOG - Co-written with John C. Kelley.
CBS Episode synopsis: A Naval Commander is suspected of involvement with drug-trafficking after his body and bullet-riddled boat washes ashore near a similar wreckage and the bodies of two drug-traffickers.The team must find the other party involved in the shootout in order to prove the Commander's innocence.
1.05 THE CURSE - Written Solo.
CBS Episode synopsis: A Navy lieutenant, who was reported missing nearly ten years ago, has been found by a deer hunter. When the NCIS team arrives at the scene to investigate, they see that his remains have been mummified. Now, they have to find out what happened to him and and what happened to the one million dollars that he had on his ship.
1.08 MINIMUM SECURITY - Co-written with Philip DeGuere.
CBS Episode synopsis: A mysterious death leads Gibbs and the team into the heart of the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
1.10 LEFT FOR DEAD - Co-written with Don McGill .
CBS Episode synopsis: After being buried alive, a woman comes out of the grave with amnesia and the only thing she remembers is that there is a bomb aboard a Navy ship. While trying to help Jane Doe to recover the identity, the team finds out that not everything is what it seemed at first.
1.16 BETE NOIR - Written Solo.
CBS Episode synopsis: A terrorist holds Ducky, Gerald, and Kate hostage while NCIS tries to figure out how the terrorist got inside and how to get out their people out safely.
1.23 REVEILLE - Written Solo.
CBS Episode synopsis: Gibbs' determination to track down the terrorist from 'Bete Noir' becomes an obsession that concerns his entire team.
2.22 SWAK - Written Solo.
CBS Episode synopsis: The NCIS team is throw into turmoil when Tony opens and envelop that contains a powdered substance. The envelope is "Sealed With A Kiss" (SWAK).
3.01 KILL ARI part 1 - Co-written with Don McGill.
CBS Episode synopsis: After the terrorist's attack, the NCIS team is shocked and is trying to cope with Kate's sudden death, each in their own way. Now, their mission is to collect all the possible info on Ari and find a way to stop him before he does any more damage. Meanwhile, while feeling guilty over Kate's death, Gibbs is informed that the NCIS Director is leaving, and the replacement is Jenny Shepard, a woman Gibbs worked with and had a love affair with.
3.02 KILL ARI part 2 - Co-written with Don McGill.
CBS Episode synopsis: Still stressed over Kate's death, Gibbs is even more hurt when Ari kidnaps Ducky and decides to play with his mind. Gibbs sends Tony to follow Ziva, and after Jenny and Gibbs are almost shot to death, he's even more determined to finish it, once and for all, with Ari and Ziva's strange connection to Ari will be just help that he needs.


Episode Photos
1 per episode written.
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Yankee White..1.01 1.03 Sea Dog
The Curse Minimum Security
Left for Dead. Bete Noir..1.16
Reveille 1.23.. SWAK
Kill Ari 1 Kill Ari 2



Brief Bio
  • Donald P. Bellisario
  • 8th August 1935
  • Education

Scripts written for TV
(not NCIS)
Big Hawaii - 1 ep. 1977
Kojak - 1 ep. 1977
Baa Baa Black Sheep - 7 ep.1977-78
Battlestar Galactica - 11 ep. 1978-79
Stone 1980
Magnum P.I. - 152 ep. 1980-88
Tales of the Gold Monkey - 7 ep. 1982
Supercopter - 48 ep. 1984-86
Airwolf 1987
Three on a Match 1987


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barver Episode idea 0 Sep 17 2011, 1:22 PM EDT by barver
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I have a great idea for an episode on NCIS, it would look into an area that most sailors dream of becoming. How do I get this idea out and who can I talk to?
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