And the Next Cancelled Show is...

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It was due to the show having originated on radio - it seemed to fit even when they changed to TV. Other radio shows that became TV programs could add visual details and humorous filler conversation between characters in place of the previous narration.

 

[Kraig]

It was due to the show having originated on radio - it seemed to fit even when they changed to TV. Other radio shows that became TV programs could add visual details and humorous filler conversation between characters in place of the previous narration.

Highway Patrol and The Untouchables had voice-overs. I don't think they originated on radio.

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It seemed more a production cost saving measure, than anything else.

 

[Jayson1]

Makes sense even if it breaks the, show not tell rule when it comes to fiction.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I suppose it can sometimes also turn what would have been an hour long show into a half hour one if they sum up some details of the investigations in the narration rather than show everything.

 

[Kraig]

I suppose it can sometimes also turn what would have been an hour long show into a half hour one if they sum up some details of the investigations in the narration rather than show everything.

For the most part, I think Dragnet TV did the voice-overs at the start of the show by Sgt. Friday, because he and his partner worked in a different detective division and at a different station at the start of each episode. That isn't what detectives normally do. They had to let the audience know if they were in Robbery, Burglary, Homicide, Bunco, Juvenile, Vice, Drug enforcement, Crime Prevention, Internal Affairs, etc. The same production company didn't do the voice-overs for Adam 12, because the two officers worked the same division and in the same patrol car each week.

 

[Caretaker]

I had no idea that show did narrations. Seems weird for a police procedure but I suppose it makes sense to those who watch the show.

Because the show (at least thus far) is Gibbs reflecting on this untold/barely told time from his past. Hence the use of narration.

As for those wanting to watch theshow, don't let the cynics here tell you otherwise. There are slight discrepancies but no worse than anything SNW is doing with regard to TOS in Trek. Don't sweat the details. And don't the cynics scare you off. It took me most of season one, but I now do see Stowell as young Gibbs.

 

[Owain Taggart]

It was due to the show having originated on radio - it seemed to fit even when they changed to TV. Other radio shows that became TV programs could add visual details and humorous filler conversation between characters in place of the previous narration.

I'm sure that was part of it, but I was also the impression that it was a genre thing, especially now. Today when you hear of Noir Dramas, most of them contain narration as part of their style as having evolved with it. So this NCIS prequel doing something similar was likely done as an homage to early police procedurals.