Guess Who's Back to 'Supernatural' Season 11! It's Jim Beaver and He's Not Alone

Beaver is set to reprise his role as Bobby and he will be joined by Steven Williams who will return as Rufus in an episode of the show's current season.

January 12, 2016

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A fan favorite character is back on "Supernatural". Jim Beaver will return to reprise his role as Bobby, the Winchesters' beloved father figure, in an upcoming episode of the season, TVLine reports.

But that's not all. Steven Williams will also be back as hunter Rufus. Both of them will appear in flashbacks in episode 16. Executive producer Jeremy Carver reveals that in the said outing, "[Dean and Sam] are going to be investigating an old case that was once investigated by Bobby and Rufus."

Carver adds, "There's a lot of great throwbacks to things that happened," including "the wonderful relationship between Bobby and Rufus." He promises, "That's going to be a really neat episode."

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Bobby was last seen in season 10's episode titled "Inside Man". As for Rufus, he last appeared in season 7 after the character was killed off in season 6.

"Supernatural" returns with the remainder of the 11th season starting Wednesday, January 20 at 9 P.M. ET on The CW.

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