Jim Parsons still has "so many" special memories from his time on The Big Bang Theory

He told Us Weekly: "I remember our first season, after about seven or eight episodes, the writers went on strike and they told us we were going to go off. We wouldn't be doing any more until it was over. And we were all so upset by it.

"And it certainly wasn't the stereotypical, and rightfully to feel like, 'Oh God, my job,' it wasn't that. It was that we were already so enjoying this show and really felt we had something, and it scared us and we thought that it could mean an early end to the series."

Despite this, Jim thinks the show and his co-stars ultimately benefited from the situation.

The actor - who starred alongside the likes of Kaley Cuoco, Mayim Bialik, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg, Melissa Rauch and Kevin Sussman - explained: "It ended up working very much in our favour.

"More people got to watch us in reruns and [when] we came back to [it], it became a bigger thing, but we didn't know that at the time. And I think back on that because like I said, seven episodes in or whatever it was, all of us knew in our hearts that we were part of something that could be, it was special, and it could be to go on and it felt like the, whatever you call it, the peculiarities of the business and the way it goes might be, could have derailed it, and it could have. We got very fortunate."

Jim thinks it's highly unlikely that the show will ever be rebooted, in spite of its past success.

The actor acknowledged that a reboot is possible, but he doesn't consider it likely at all.

Asked about the possibility, Jim replied: "I can't imagine. Well, I could imagine, but no, I imagine no."