This year marks Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary, so needless to say that even accounting for the 16 years the anchoring TV show was off the air, the title Time Lord has had a lot of companions journey with them throughout time and space aboard the TARDIS. Among them was Bonne Langford’s Melanie Bush, who spent time with the Sixth and Seventh Doctors in the mid-‘80s. Well, good news for those of you who enjoyed Mel’s time on Doctor Who way back when, because it’s been announced she’ll be hanging out with Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor.
Given that we’re so far off from Season 14 (there’s still five months to go until we see David Tennant’s Fourteenth Doctor leading Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary event), naturally no specific details concerning Mel’s return were disclosed. However, showrunner Russell T. Davies said in a statement to BBC that Langford isn’t reprising the role as a cameo,” as we’ll see the actress “right in the thick of the action, battling monsters and chaos and cliffhangers, right at the Doctor's side, just like the old days.” Here’s what Langford had to say about returning to the Doctor Who fold in her own statement:
