Doctor Who: 10 More Characters We Want To See Return
4. Captain Jack Harkness
Has there ever been an actor so desperate to return to the show? John Barrowman certainly doesn’t need Doctor Who or even Torchwood to keep him in work, but such is his love of the former Time Agent that he would gladly find space in his busy schedule to make a comeback as Captain Jack Harkness. It’s a part he has never really left, with the adventures of Torchwood continuing in audio form in the officially licenced Big Finish series.
Bringing the fan favourite back is slightly complicated by the fact that following his resurrection by the Bad Wolf Rose, his body can only age incredibly slowly. For every year the actor doesn’t return, the writers would have to add centuries onto the character’s backstory. Nevertheless, Moffat refused to rule out another outing for Jack, if he had the right story for it.
Chibnall knows the character well from his time on Torchwood, so who knows, the new showrunner might just be able to come up with that killer story post series 10. In one of the wackiest moves ever on Doctor Who, Russell T Davies teased the viewers that Jack would one day be the Face of Boe - any writer who could explain how that journey took shape would be an absolute genius.