A Country Practice is set to return to Aussie screens after almost 25 years off air.

New Idea magazine reported today that Fremantle Australia have purchased the rights to the beloved Australian soap -- which was set in the fictional NSW town of Wandin Valley -- and have plans to reboot it.

"The general idea of the show is that it will focus on a new generation of locals," a source told the mag. "But Fremantle also want to bring back some of the original characters to give it that nostalgic element to it."

The Logie Award-winning show, about the happenings of rural hospital, ran for 13 years from 1981 to 1994 and launched the careers of Shane Porteous (who played Dr Terence Elliot), Lorrae Desmond (nurse Shirley Gilroy), Penny Cook (vet Vicky Dean Bowen) and Georgie Parker (nurse Lucy Gardiner).

"My character was outrageous, colourful and spontaneous," said Parker, who played Lucy in the span of four years and 266 episodes, departing in 1992. "She had a pet rooster called Rhett and she spoke to inanimate objects. She was pretty easy to love."

In 1990, Parker also scored the TV Week Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent.

"It was a bit daunting, but I was super-excited," recalled Parker, who was only 25 at the time. "I had no expectation of winning anything, so that was pretty nice. I'd been doing the show for only a year and had worked really hard, so I felt honoured."

With the drama so well respected in the industry, no wonder everyone was putting their hand up to score a guest-starring gig. The likes of Nicole Kidman, Toni Collette, Simon Baker and Delta Goodrem have all made cameos, as did then-Prime Minister Bob Hawke, who made an appearance in 1986.

According to New Idea, the reboot could see an injection of star power too, with Love Child's Mandy McElhinney, Doctor Doctor's Rodger Corser, Packed to the Rafters' Erik Thomson and Bite Club's Deborah Mailman some of the big names thrown into the mix.