Thrilling and amusing series about the cases of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service's LA , forced to execute risked assignments , they carry out their cases with extreme intelligence and effectiveness . This team of elite agents is based in Los Angeles . The Naval Criminal Investigation Service's Office of Special Projects whose location where they zoom in and out is at place of the Marina Del Rey Garden Center, Mindanao , there they take on the undercover work and the hard to crack cases in Los Angeles . Key agents are G. Callen (Chris O'Donnell ) and Sam Hanna (LL Cool J) , streets kids risen through the ranks. Furthermore , Kensi Blye (Daniela Ruah) and Marty Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) are the love interests on the show attempting to marry themselves . Other agents appearing are Eric Beale (Barrett Foa) , Nell Jones (Renée Smith) , Special Agent Harley Hidoko (Andrea Bordeaux) . All of them are under command of chiefs as Hetty Lange (veteran Linda Hunt) , Owen Granger (Miguel Ferrer who was so devoted to his character , he refused to take time off, even when diagnosed with cancer) and Assistant Director Shay Mosley (Nia Long) .
This is a professional group ¨the Naval Criminal Investigative Service's Los Angeles Major Case Response Team¨ led by the expert special agents well played by Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J , the latter attempts to perform his own stunts where possible, they are leaders of the high-qualified squad , they pull off their missions resolving criminal cases and involving Marine and Navy personnel and their families, sometimes traveling the United States or all over the world to do it. They participate at Los Angeles missions , surroundings and sometimes all around the world as secret assignments in Afghanistan or a mission in Syria , among others. NCIS LA Headquarters building is located in Los Angeles, California at the Stage 9, Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles . Due to many crossovers among them, the series is set in the same universe that others created by same producers and writers , as usually appearing as guest stars similar players and technician equipment , such as : JAG (1995) , Navy: criminal Investigation (2003) , Hawai 5.0 (2010), NCIS: New Orleans (2014) and Scorpion (2014). It is a successful TV series well produced and created by Shane Brennan, Erin Broadhurst, R. Scott Gemmill ; including huge doses of humor , noisy action , technological developing , thrills and turns ; being starred by a motley , dynamic , complex , and highly prepared bunch of criminal investigation .
It is formed by 240 episodes , 11 seasons , that have the same number of episodes in every season : 24 . This NCIS franchise boasts a great number of known guest stars , such as : Aunjanue Ellis as LL Cool's wife , Pamela Reed , Daniel J. Travanti , Jeff Kober , Alicia Coppola , JR Bourne , Laura Harring , Ravil Isyanov , Max Martini , Patrick St. Esprit ,Timothy Murphy , Cameron Daddo , Ernie Reyes Jr , David James Elliott , Kim Raver , Christina Rose , Raymond J Barry , Daniel Hugh Kelly , Pauley Perrette , Michael Weatherly of NCIS also appears on the show in the episode Blame It on Rio. Being professionally directed by a good plethora of directors as Paris Barclay , Steven DePaul , Eric Laneuville , Karen Gaviola , Jonathan Frakes , Frank Military , Felix Enrique Alcala , James Withmore Jr , Larry Tang , Kate Woods , Paul Kaufman , Terence Nightingall , Benny Boom , David Barret , Steve Boyum , Jan Eliasberg , Christine Moore and even Chris O'Donnell made 3 episodes , among others .
