Mac and Harm are together again! Catherine Bell will now join David James Elliott as she too will be reprising her iconic JAG character of Lieutenant Colonel Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie alongside Captain Harmon Rabb when they both make an appearance on NCIS: Los Angeles in a multi-episode story arc during its current 10th season.
Their joint re-appearance - and the first on the NCIS franchise which was a spin-off from JAG - is fuelling that a reboot of the hugely successful JAG series could be on the cards.
NCIS: Los Angeles is currently on its 2nd season on e.tv, with its 7th season on Universal TV (DStv 117) at the moment, and M-Net (DStv 101) showing the 10th season.
Now viewers will get the chance to catch up with what exactly happened with Harm and Mac since the end of JAG as they once again portray the character that made them famous.
In the upcoming episode "The Guardian" Harmon Rabb will appearance over 4 episodes as the NCIS team uncovers ISIS sympathizers who are planning an attack on United States aircraft carriers.
The looming threat leads to Callen (Chris O’Donnell) and Sam (LL Cool J) working directly with Rabb (David James Elliott) who is now the executive officer (XO) and second-in-command on the USS Intrepid.
Mac will appear in the NCIS: Los Angeles season finale when Hetty (Linda Hunt) has to call in a favour to an old friend, Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, to help get access to an elusive Russian diplomat.
David James Elliott and Catherine Bell's re-appearance reunite them with R. Scott Gemmill who is now the executive producer and showrunner of NCIS: Los Angeles and who used to be a writer and producer on JAG.
"Catherine's "Mac" was a strong, smart woman who held her own, and then some, in a male-dominated world," says R. Scott Gemmill in a statement.
"Her character paved the way for other strong female leads. Not only is it great to be working together again as friends, but to be able to write for Catherine and have her same character interact with our NCIS: Los Angeles characters now - that's wonderfully surreal. It feels like everything has come full circle."
About working with David James Elliott again, he says "I was really excited to get a chance to work with David again. I did the first 4 seasons of JAG with him so to be able to work together again in and of itself is great - but to do so with the same character on our show this many years later - that's pretty damn amazing."
