Premise: NCIS = Magnum, P.I.

[Chicago Jake]

In the 1980s, Donald P. Bellisario created a show called "Magnum, P.I." Twenty three years later, he created another show called "NCIS." My premise is that these shows have much in common.

I'm not asking you to agree with this premise. I'm asking you to pretend you agree with the premise. Given that, which characters from one show line up with characters from the other show? And why? There are no wrong answers here; it's just good clean fun and speculation.

Here are my answers:

Ducky = Higgins. Pompous, given to telling long involved stories that nobody else cares about.
DiNozzo = Magnum. Great investigator, given to flights of fancy about old movies, and a bit of a lady's man.
McGee = T.C. Great with technical stuff.
Ziva = Rick. Good with fisticuffs, and tapped into under-world contacts.
Abby = . Well, there really isn't an analog here that I can see.

I'm assuming your mileage may vary. So what are YOUR correlations?


PS - more TV show correlations to come in the future.

[Merlot Joe]

What about Gibbs? Wouldn't he line up with Magnum, the head dog?

[Chicago Jake]

Except that Gibbs and Magnum have absolutely nothing in common, personality-wise.

[Merlot Joe]

The lead character of the series and both are bad asses when they need to be.

[Merlot Joe]

I would put Gibbs more like Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone from Streets of San Francsico, and DiNozzo like Steve Keller.

[Chicago Jake]

That would work.