P.J. Hammond’s cult genre drama Sapphire and Steel is hopefully heading back to the small screen, courtesy of Luther creator Neil Cross.

According to the New Zealand based writer, who contributed episodes to Matt Smith’s final season as the Doctor, “I am planning – it looks very much like I’m going to – relaunch a show called Sapphire and Steel… There’s a broadcaster in the UK that’s very, very keen to do it.”

Talking to the Nerdist podcast, he explained that the series is a “late ‘70s science-fiction horror show, which had an incredibly low budget, so every single episode was a bottle episode where the enemy is time itself … so it would tell ghost stories and monster stories but in every episode somehow time was the villain.”

The series originally starred The Man From UNCLE/NCIS’ David McCallum and The New Avengers’ Joanna Lumley as the mysterious pair; the show was revived by Big Finish for a series of audio adventures, with David Warner and Susannah Harker stepping into the roles. There have been various attempts to bring the series back previously, but none has reached fruition.