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.