Doctor Who is coming back. Ph34r the TARDIS and K-9!
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THE CULT SERIES that aired from 1963-1989 to become the world�s longest-running science fiction programme will return in 2005, but details about the new shows are being kept secret.
�The new series will be fun, exciting, contemporary and scary,� series writer Russell T Davies said.
�Although I�m only in the early stages of development, I�m aiming to write a full-blooded drama which embraces the Doctor Who heritage,� he said.
The original programmes chronicled the adventures of eight Doctors and their many companions who battled countless foes -human, alien and most notoriously the �Daleks� - as they travelled through time and space in a time machine disguised as a police phone box.
Doctor Who has also thrived in print and on stage and has spawned countless devotional web sites.
A Doctor Who television movie was broadcast in 1996 and it returned to the Internet for a 30-minute web broadcast in 2001.
William Hartnell played the first Doctor Who. The actor who will star as his latest incarnation has not been named.