The 1979 novel "Time After Time" was a smash hit for the year and now, ABC has greenlit a TV adaptation for the series, which will hail from the original writer for "Scream" Kevin Williamson.

According to Deadline, the series will closely follow the tenets of the book and add its own flavor to the series.

The book centers around H.G. Wells, who in real life wrote the books "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds." Wells, in the novel, invents a time machine in the 19th century and travels to 1979. He shows the machine to his friends and one of those friends turns out to be a surgeon named Leslie John Stephenson, who also happens to double as Jack the Ripper.

Stephenson then steals the time machine and evades capture by traveling through time to 1979. Wells, of course, pursues him and the two meet up in San Francisco where the chase ensues and gets complicated by the love of a woman.

Although there has been no word yet if Wells in the series will be traveling to 1979 or to modern times, it is a safe assumption that the series will have to take place in many different time periods for the sheer amount of story that will have to be created for the episodes.

Williamson is no stranger to the TV arena and creating series that stretch out to 22 or more episodes. He created TV shows like "Dawson's Creek" and "The Vampire Diaries" for the CW network and has been a staple in the horror arena as well, writing the late '90s hits "Scream" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer."

"Time After Time" has also been immortalized on the big screen with a film starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner and Mary Steenburgen. Although the story features the horrifying real-life character of Jack the Ripper, the movie was more of a sci-fi romance than anything.

See the trailer for the film below.