Scott Wolf is officially coming back in season 2 of Doc — but not in the way some might be expecting.
Fox confirmed on Tuesday, September 30, that Wolf, 57, will reprise his role as Dr. Richard Miller for a multi-episode guest arc beginning later this season. He will also direct an upcoming episode, which airs in early 2026.
Executive producer Hank Steinberg exclusively told Us Weekly about Wolf’s highly anticipated return, saying, “He will be back. He will come back in a very surprising way and then he will be able to come in with a very different energy than last year, which should be fun.”
In a separate statement, Steinberg and fellow coshowrunner Barbie Kligman teased what fans can expect.
“We always knew when Richard got fired that would never be the last of him,” they noted. “But no one expected him to come back to Westside like this — least of all Amy.”
Viewers last saw Richard in the season 1 finale when Amy (Molly Parker) realized that her colleague Richard was at fault for a patient’s death. She was about to discuss his mistake to her superiors, but got into a crash that wiped her memory of the last eight years.
Richard confessed in the finale, which ended his career at the hospital — for now. Wolf, for his part, previously spoke to Us about how Richard’s secret would drive his story line on the medical series.
“[My character on Doc] is my No. 1 favorite in terms of my enjoyment of the complexity,” Wolf told Us in January. “I’ve gotten to explore these different medical worlds playing doctors. But I’ve never had a more fun, interesting, complicated and sometimes painful character to play. And to be back working with Fox again after I started with Party of Five [in the ’90s], they are two of my favorite experiences by far. It is full circle in some fun ways.”
Wolf said he loved playing “a flawed human being,” adding, “It wasn’t like I had to figure out how to justify a bad guy doing bad things. This was a very good person who any of us could wind up being. But with his circumstances, he winds up in this terrible situation where a mistake has happened and his reaction to it is to just get protective.”
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At the time, the actor, who is currently going through a messy divorce from estranged wife Kelley Wolf, pointed out that fans shouldn’t expect to always know where each story is headed.
“It is so well-written and I’m a huge fan of hospital shows, But obviously, this central premise is so interesting, and the character development is incredible. The whole point is to create characters and tell stories that engage people,” he continued. “Sometimes it can take time and the very first episode of a show can make you come away feeling like you only scratch the surface.”
Wolf concluded: “I didn’t know what direction they were going to head in all of them, but it’s amazing to read something and feel like I’ll play any character in this show.”
Doc airs on Fox Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the next day on Hulu.
