The character, played by Trevor Donovan, joked to Zap2it.com: 'I said I would come back for an episode if they agreed to make it black and white, and silent.'
The exact circumstances of the return have not been revealed but the website does report that Teddy will reunite with an old West Beverly High classmate and will face a life-changing decision.
The show's producers have never been clear why the show's only gay character was written out of the series after appearing in just five episodes of season four.
In season three, Teddy's coming out story included his first tentative relationship with a male classmate, Ian, which resulted in his coming out to all of his friends at school. That relationship ended badly and the character had a fling during spring break before meeting a guy named Marco who he took to the prom.
At the start of the current season, he was involved with Shane but their relationship becomes strained when they end up supporting different candidates in a political election with one being Teddy's uncle and the other being Shane's boss.
In the end, the couple end up going off together to Washington DC where Shane was in school and the rest of the characters continued their lives in Beverly Hills without them.
Donovan embraced the gay role and was consistently thoughtful in his remarks to the media about Teddy's storyline.
He told EW.com last year that as more gay teens appear onscreen, more real-life adolescents are realizing that there shouldn’t be anything taboo about homosexuality.
'I think that’s why the bullying does happen, and the teasing,' he said. 'People bully and tease about things they don’t understand, that they’re scared of. So this is enlightening people and bringing it into the mainstream… I think it’s important to educate people, and I’m proud to be part of it.'
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