List of JAG episodes

JAG (U.S. military acronym for Judge Advocate General<ref>Sometimes stylized as J*A*G in promotional materials, including the DVD releases</ref>) is an American legal drama television show with a distinct U.S. Navy and Marine Corps theme, created by Donald P. Bellisario, and produced by Belisarius Productions in association with Paramount Network Television (after 2006 known as CBS Studios).<ref name="2000 production notes">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}. From the Paramount website, through archive.org. Retrieved on 2015-03-22.</ref><ref>It was one of the last Paramount-produced TV series to end under that name, prior to the firm becoming CBS Paramount Television.</ref> The first season was co-produced with NBC Productions.

Originally pitched towards the studio, network, and later also marketed for audiences as a Top Gun meets A Few Good Men hybrid series,<ref name="Time 011202">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="Neal Karlen 1995">Karlen, Neal. "COVER STORY;From the Man Behind 'Magnum, P.I.,' 'Top Gun' Meets 'A Few Good Men'", The New York Times (November 5, 1995)</ref> the pilot episode of JAG first aired on NBC on September 23, 1995, but the series was later canceled on May 22, 1996, after finishing 79th in the ratings, leaving one episode unaired. Rival network CBS picked up the series for a mid-season replacement, beginning on January 3, 1997. For several seasons, JAG climbed in the ratings and was on the air for nine additional seasons. JAG furthermore spawned the hit series NCIS, which in turn spun off NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, and NCIS: Hawaiʻi.

In total, 227 episodes were produced over 10 seasons. At the time of the original airing of its fifth season in the United States, JAG was seen in over 90 countries worldwide.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> JAG entered syndication in early 1999.

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Episodes

Season 1 (1995–96)

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} This season stars David James Elliott as Harmon Rabb, and Tracey Needham as Meg Austin. Patrick Labyorteaux and John M. Jackson both have continuous arcs throughout the season. Catherine Bell guest stars in one episode, Andrea Parker recurs. JAG season 1

Season 2 (1997)

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} This season stars David James Elliott as Harmon Rabb. Catherine Bell joins the main cast as Sarah MacKenzie, alongside Patrick Labyorteaux as Bud Roberts, and John M. Jackson as A.J. Chegwidden. Steven Culp and Karri Turner have continuous arcs throughout the season. Chuck Carrington recurs. JAG season 2

Season 3 (1997–98)

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} This season stars David James Elliott as Harmon Rabb, Catherine Bell as Sarah MacKenzie, Patrick Labyorteaux as Bud Roberts, and John M. Jackson as Admiral AJ Chegwidden. Steven Culp and Karri Turner have continuous arcs throughout the season. Tracey Needham guest stars in a flashback, Chuck Carrington recurs. JAG season 3

Season 4 (1998–99)

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} This season stars David James Elliott as Harmon Rabb, Catherine Bell as Sarah MacKenzie, Patrick Labyorteaux as Bud Roberts, and John M. Jackson as Admiral AJ Chegwidden. Steven Culp, Trevor Goddard and Karri Turner have continuous arcs throughout the season. Mae Whitman guest stars, Chuck Carrington recurs. JAG season 4

Season 5 (1999–2000)

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} This season stars David James Elliott as Harmon Rabb, Catherine Bell as Sarah MacKenzie, Patrick Labyorteaux as Bud Roberts, and John M. Jackson as Admiral AJ Chegwidden. Steven Culp, Trevor Goddard, Randy Vasquez and Karri Turner have continuous arcs throughout the season. Mae Whitman guest stars, Chuck Carrington recurs. JAG season 5

Season 6 (2000–01)

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} This season stars David James Elliott as Harmon Rabb, Catherine Bell as Sarah MacKenzie, Patrick Labyorteaux as Bud Roberts, and John M. Jackson as Admiral AJ Chegwidden. Steven Culp, Trevor Goddard, Randy Vasquez and Karri Turner have continuous arcs throughout the season. Mae Whitman and Andrea Parker guest stars in one episode, Chuck Carrington recurs. JAG season 6

Season 7 (2001–02)

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} This season stars David James Elliott as Harmon Rabb, Catherine Bell as Sarah MacKenzie, Patrick Labyorteaux as Bud Roberts, and John M. Jackson as Admiral AJ Chegwidden. Steven Culp, Trevor Goddard, Zoe McLellan, Scott Lawrence, Nanci Chambers, Randy Vasquez and Karri Turner have continuous arcs throughout the season. Chuck Carrington recurs. JAG season 7

Season 8 (2002–03)

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} This season stars David James Elliott as Harmon Rabb, Catherine Bell as Sarah MacKenzie, Patrick Labyorteaux as Bud Roberts, and John M. Jackson as Admiral AJ Chegwidden. Steven Culp, Zoe McLellan, Scott Lawrence, Nanci Chambers, Randy Vasquez and Karri Turner have continuous arcs throughout the season. Tamlyn Tomita guest stars, Chuck Carrington recurs. JAG season 8

Season 9 (2003–04)

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} This season stars David James Elliott as Harmon Rabb, Catherine Bell as Sarah MacKenzie, Patrick Labyorteaux as Bud Roberts, and John M. Jackson as Admiral AJ Chegwidden. Steven Culp, Zoe McLellan, Scott Lawrence, Randy Vasquez and Karri Turner have continuous arcs throughout the season. Chuck Carrington guest stars. JAG season 9

Season 10 (2004–05)

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} This season stars David James Elliott as Harmon Rabb, Catherine Bell as Sarah MacKenzie, and Patrick Labyorteaux as Bud Roberts. Scott Lawrence joins the main cast as Sturgis Turner, alongside Zoe McLellan as Jennifer Coates. Steven Culp, David Andrews and Karri Turner have continuous arcs throughout the season. Jordana Spiro, Meta Golding and Chris Beetem also star. JAG season 10

U.S. television ratings

Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of JAG from Nielsen ratings on NBC (first season) and CBS (other seasons).

Note: U.S. network television seasons generally start in late September and end in late May, which coincides with the completion of the May sweeps.

Season	Time slot	Season premiere	Season finale	TV season	Rank	Viewers (in millions)
1	Saturday at 8:00 pm (EST) (September 23, 1995 – February 3, 1996) Wednesday at 8:00 pm (EST) (March 13 – May 22, 1996)	September 23, 1995	May 22, 1996	1995–1996	79Template:Citation needed	11.56
2	Friday at 9:00 pm (EST) (January 3 – March 7, 1997) Friday at 8:00 pm (EST) (March 28 – April 18, 1997)	January 3, 1997	April 18, 1997	1996–1997	68Template:Citation needed	11.80
3	Tuesday at 8:00 pm (EST)	September 23, 1997	May 19, 1998	1997–1998	36<ref name="EW 980528">Template:Cite magazine</ref>	12.90<ref name="EW 980528" />
4		September 22, 1998	May 25, 1999	1998–1999	17	14.20<ref>Final ratings for the 1998–1999 TV season Template:Webarchive. Reocities. Retrieved on 2011-05-14.</ref>
5		September 21, 1999	May 23, 2000	1999–2000	25	14.07<ref>US-Jahrescharts 1999/2000 Template:Webarchive. Quotenmeter.de (May 30, 2002). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.</ref>
6		October 3, 2000	May 22, 2001	2000–2001	26	14.60Template:Citation needed
7		September 25, 2001	May 21, 2002	2001–2002	15	14.80<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
8		September 24, 2002	May 20, 2003	2002–2003	26<ref name="Nielsen's TOP 156 Shows for 2002–03" />	12.97<ref name="Nielsen's TOP 156 Shows for 2002–03">Nielsen's TOP 156 Shows for 2002–03 – rec.arts.tv | Google Groups. Groups.google.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.</ref>
9	Friday at 9:00 pm (EST)	September 26, 2003	May 21, 2004	2003–2004	37	10.80<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.</ref>
10		September 24, 2004	April 29, 2005	2004–2005	50	9.66<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.</ref>

JAG had generally an older skewing audience: for the 2002-2003 season, the median age viewer was 58 (the same figure was also held by other CBS shows Becker and The Guardian).<ref name="A Look at the Good Ol' Days of Broadcast Primetime TV: You Know, 2003" /> As a comparison, for the same season, Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on NBC had a median of 50, while The Practice and NYPD Blue on ABC had a median of 48.<ref name="A Look at the Good Ol' Days of Broadcast Primetime TV: You Know, 2003" /> However, as the article in Broadcasting & Cable states: "fewer broadcast network primetime series than [2013] had median age audiences over 50"<ref name="A Look at the Good Ol' Days of Broadcast Primetime TV: You Know, 2003">Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Home media

JAG was not available on DVD (or VHS, with the singular exception of the pilot movie, which was given a VHS release by Paramount Home Video in 1998<ref name="Jag / Premiere Episode VHS">Template:Cite book</ref> ) during the course of its original run.<ref name="Paramount Drops Hints About JAG On DVD" /> It was suggested that a syndication deal with USA Network possibly prevented Paramount from issuing DVD releases.<ref name="Paramount Drops Hints About JAG On DVD" /> Before it did happen in 2006, JAG was the second most requested TV series not commercially available on the TVShowsOnDVD.com website.<ref name="Paramount Drops Hints About JAG On DVD">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Season	Episodes	DVD release dates
		Region 1	Region 2	Region 4	Discs
1	22	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Start date	Template:Start date	6
2	15	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Start date	Template:Start date	4
3	24	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Start date	Template:Start date	6
4	24	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Start date	Template:Start date	6
5	25	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Start date	Template:Start date	7
6	24	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Start date<ref>JAG – Season 6 [DVD]: Amazon.co.uk: DVD. Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.</ref>	Template:Start date<ref>JAG: Judge Advocate General – The 6th Season (6 Disc Set) @ EzyDVD Template:Webarchive. Ezydvd.com.au (2009-09-02). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.</ref>	6
7	24	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Start date<ref>JAG – Season 7 [DVD] [2008]: Amazon.co.uk: DVD. Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.</ref>	Template:Start date	5
8	24	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Start date<ref>JAG – Season 8 [DVD] [2002]: Amazon.co.uk: DVD. Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.</ref>	Template:Start date	5
9	23	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Start date	Template:Start date<ref>JAG: Judge Advocate General – The 9th Season (5 Disc Set) @ EzyDVD Template:Webarchive. Ezydvd.com.au (2010-11-04). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.</ref>	5
10	22	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Start date	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	5
Total	227	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Start date<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	55

See also

• NCIS (franchise)

External links

• JAG at CBS
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