TV vet Bob Newhart has appointed a guest-starring role on NCIS, a rep for the show.

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Newhart, 81, will comedy Dr. Walter Magnus, an eccentric-but-charming medical examiner who comes out of retirement to advice the NCIS team, according to Entertainment Weekly, which aboriginal appear the news. He'll assignment carefully with the team's citizen ME Ducky (David McCallum).

Newhart, best accepted for his sitcoms The Bob Newhart Appearance and Newhart, has additionally appeared in such films as Catch-22 and Elf. He best afresh co-starred with Noah Wyle and Jane Curtin in The Librarian TV movies on TNT, and as Morty Flickman on ABC's Desperate Housewives.

NCIS affectedness Tuesdays at 8/7c on CBS. Newhart's adventure is appointed to air in January.

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