Showrunners Gina Lucita Monreal and David J. North discuss creating the backstory for Mike Franks on tonight's 'NCIS: Origins ...

NCIS: Origins is beloved for many reasons, specifically because of the character Mike Franks' (Kyle Schmid) wardrobe on ...

NCIS: Origins gives us a rare look back to a time before NCIS with Mike. The flashback to his time in the Marines gives us ...

Origins resumes its freshman run this Monday at 10/9, as Narrator Gibbs might put it, “This is the story of… Michael” - as in ...

NCIS fans finally got to learn an important piece of Mike Franks' backstory in "Flight of Icarus," the most recent episode of ...

NCIS: Origins may be centered around Gibbs ( Austin Stowell) and telling the story of his life before what we saw on the ...

Luckily, NCIS: Origins has plenty to work with in Mike Franks. Don’t get me wrong, because I am the unofficial leader of the “Mary Jo Fan Club,” but Mike Franks is something else.

Michael Frank is a journalist and editor who has spent the past 25 years in both print and online media and has worked as a staff editor at publications including Esquire and National Geographic.

Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid), then Gibbs’ boss. And the focus turns to Franks in the January 27 midseason return, with a pivotal part of his past involving his family revealed. “What we’re ...