Scott Bakula’s last series, ''Star Trek Enterprise',' received a beating from the franchise fans (“I don’t get it. At the start they complained about the theme song. Then, it was another thing. I’m obviously partial to it, but I think it was a good show”) but everybody loved ''Quantum Leap''. And it's a fair assumption that one day - especially given the success of the "Battlestar Galactica" and "V" reboots – it'll return in some shape-or-form.

Series star Scott Bakula tells Moviehole it's going to take someone with a sharp pair of scissors to cut down the red tape first.

“There’s always talk about it coming back - but nothing has ever eventuated”, says the actor, of the series which ran from 1989 to 1993.

“There’s a big, long, complicated paper trail in terms of ownership – it was bought by different studios; Barry Diller bought it… that’s the world of Universal Television. And if Universal TV gets bought, it’ll get even more complicated.”

Bakula received four Emmy nominations for his role as Beckett, a scientist whose time travel experiments go wrong and is then forced to leap through time and into other people's bodies, on "Quantum Leap". He was last asked to reprise the role for a 2002 Sci-Fi Channel pilot - that never came to fruition.