It was voted America’s favorite television show, the third
most watched show of the year, according to Nielsen Ratings, just behind Sunday
Night Football and American Idol.
This fall the show will begin its tenth season on CBS but Rittenhouse
Archives has trading card for the show right now. 2012 Rittenhouse Archives NCIS
Trading cards are available in Premium Packs. These cards cover the first 72 episodes of the series, from
the Post-JAG kick off of Season 1 to the start of Season 4. This is the premiere offering so there
will probably be more releases in the future to cover the later seasons. Fans of the show should be pleased.
Rittenhouse Archives NCIS falls under our premium cards category. Each Premium Pack contains 3 Episode
cards, 1 Stars of NCIS card, 2 Relic cards and 1 Autograph card. These can be
purchased by the individual pack or as a 15-pack box.
Here are the cards we pulled. All cards are shown front and back.
Episode Cards
Card #26 - Hometown Hero & Kill Ari Part 1
Card #06 - High Seas & Enigma
Card #19 - Witness & The Voyeur's Web
Stars of NCIS inserts
Special Agent Caitlin Todd played by Sasha Alexander
Relic Cards
Shirt worn by Rocky Carroll portraying Director Leon Vance
Suit worn by Michael Weatherly portraying Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo
Autograph
Bob Newhart Autograph portraying Dr. Walter Magnus
Overall Look
The inserts and hit cards are really nicely done.
Rittenhouse Archives has some of the best designed and executed autograph cards
in all of collecting, both sports and non-sports. But the episode cards are a little too “vanilla” for
me. Perhaps a few more details in
the episode synopsis would have helped.
But that is a minor point that does not detract from the appeal of the
set.
Quality and Variety of the checklist
This is a small set, but it is a small core group of actors
so that is understandable. With
the future inclusion of later season cards, this should round out to a nice
sized master set. All of the
core actors are represented in the Stars of NCIS cards but not necessarily in
the hits, another issue that should be resolved in future releases.
Do the Hits satisfy?
This release features autograph from 3 of the main actors, Lauren Holly,
(which is great that they went back and got her) Pauley Perrette and Rocky
Carroll. It also has the autograph
of Brian Dietzen who will be joining the main cast this season. You might think that the rest of the
autograph list is lacking in that case, but you would be wrong. It is full of name actors that are
desirable autographs to have, from the Bob Newhart that I was excited to pull, to Cheryl
Ladd, Michael Nouri, Charles Durning and Rena Sofer. The relic hits are done the way I like them. Relic swatch with a picture from the
show of the actor in the costume piece on the front and a picture of the actual
costume piece that the swatch was taken from on the back of the card.
Will you keep coming back for more?
Because of the limited number of cards in the set, fans of
the show will want to complete it. and will be ready to collect any future
release.
Rating
4 1/2 out of 5
2012 Rittenhouse Archives NCIS is a good premiere release that offers fans of the show plenty to start collecting now.
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