The theme from Australian children's television series Ship to Shore, which was shot between 1992 and 1996 and aired on ABC and Channel 9.

HERMES Endakis is making a comeback! It’s actually happening. This is not a hoax. I repeat this is not a hoax.

The man who played the bumbling fool of a security guard on Ship to Shore for all three seasons in the 1990s has revealed exclusively to news.com.au that he’s about to breathe new life into the character.

Greg Carroll, who’s currently studying film and television at Melbourne University, said he’s been asked many times over the years to play Endakis again, but this time he’s finally given in.

“One of the students in my class said to me, ‘Why don’t you do a Hermes Endakis stage show?’” said Carroll.

“She convinced me and my lawyer convinced me as well so I’ve started writing a Hermes Endakis stage show, a musical actually.

“I wrote the first seven pages last night.”

(If you were a kid in the 1990s you’re probably freaking out right now so go and get a glass of water and compose yourself. Good to go? Great. Read on)

Carroll landed the gig on the TV show when he was spotted by a well-known TV casting agent more than 20 years ago as he was touring a stage show around Victoria.

“She saw me in the play and said, ‘Where have you been for most of your career?’” said Carroll.

“She had me audition for six shows in six weeks and I had a choice.

“They were checking me out to be the carpenter on that home show that Shirley Strachan ended up doing (Our House), because I’ve got a building trade.

“And another one was Round the Twist. They asked me if I wanted to be the villain on that show or have a go at it at least.

“But Ship to Shore was eight months work in Perth and they said I could have a house on the beach and I could take my family and I thought, ‘gee that sounds good’.”

Hermes Endakis was arguably the best thing about the show, but he was never meant to be such a laughable character.

“It was supposed to be a drama adventure and I thought, ‘Hermes comes across like a paedophile’,” said Carroll.

“So I made him funny instead and it really panicked the ABC and all sorts of people until they showed it to some kids and the kids couldn’t stop laughing.”

The show was a hit in Australia and overseas in countries like China, Germany, Iceland and Israel, but it failed to get renewed for a fourth season with production coming to an end in 1996.

“They (the producers) came to me at the end of the third series and they said to me that the Germans wanted another three series and a movie … but it all just disappeared into a puff of smoke,” said Carroll.

After Ship to Shore, Carroll did a few movies and appeared in other TV shows like Blue Heelers, Neighbours and Stingers but he became frustrated as his roles became more and more reduced.

“I’ve always been a theatre director and designer so as soon as the TV and movie industry decided they didn’t want me anymore I just thought, well, I’ll just go back to theatre which is what I’ve always done,” said Carroll.

The industry may have given up on him, but kids who grew up watching Ship to Shore refuse to forget.

“I still get recognised all the time,” said Carroll.

“I direct a lot of stage shows and often when I’m at opening nights and I’m sitting with big name actors, young people come up and ask for a photo and the well-known actors always think it’s them. But the young people say, ‘No, not you, Hermes!’

“A guy I know said he’d been to a rave where there were 5,000 people in a warehouse in Melbourne and suddenly they put the Ship to Shore theme song on and he said the place exploded.”

So on behalf of every Ship to Shore fan, hurry up and finish the musical Greg Carroll, we can’t wait to see Hermes Endakis once more.