Werewolf Werewolves were creatures that could shapeshift from humanoid form to that of a wolf , voluntarily or otherwise . Their condition was usually called lycanthropy . ( TV : " Mindwarp " ) Legend . Werewolves were creatures that appeared human but tranformed into beasts in the light of a full moon . The bite of a werewolf would turn the victim into a werewolf . The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler speculated that this might have happened to Queen Victoria when they met her . ( TV : " Tooth and Claw " ) Because they existed in myths , they were present in the Land of Fiction . The Cybermen converted them as woodsmen , but under the full moon they turned into monsters of plastic and flesh and fur . This showed the Cybermen the potential of converting other fictional creatures . ( AUDIO : " Legend of the Cybermen " ) History . The universe was home to several types of werewolf . The Second Doctor encountered a werewolf in 3300 BC Italy . ( PROSE : " Loop the Loup " ) The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler encountered a Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform in 1879 Scotland . ( TV : " Tooth and Claw " ) In the early 1890s Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot defeated an army captain who had been bitten by a werewolf in India . ( AUDIO : " The Bloodless Soldier ) " In 1903 , after receiving a wealth of information from the future , Grigori Rasputin saw werewolves . ( AUDIO : " The Wanderer " ) Werewolves were apparently prevalent in pre - World War II Germany , where Emmeline Neuberger remembered being forcibly recruited by the government along with other werewolves as a death squad before she escaped to England , although she later reflected that her memories could have been altered by Hester Stanton . Emmeline helped the Eighth Doctor and Harry Sullivan prevent Hester ' s plan to take over the world , and may have turned Harry into a werewolf , but Harry was subsequently taken away by the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith . The Eighth Doctor attempted to arrange help for Emmeline via his government contacts , but they held her prisoner to try and find a way to force the change until she was rescued by the Fourth Doctor ( who would go back to rescue Harry in his future ) . During this time the Fourth Doctor learned how to force and reverse the change to trigger Emmeline ' s transformation and later turn her back , and it is possible that he was able to devise a permanent cure for Harry . ( PROSE : " Wolfsbane " ) The First Doctor and Susan encountered a werewolf in 1963 and were put on trial after they killed it , forcing the Doctor ' s future selves to act as jurors to cast doubt on the case . ( PROSE : " The Juror ' s Story " ) Iris Wildthyme and Edwin Turner encountered a werewolf in 1970s Flanders . ( AUDIO : " An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium " ) UNIT may possibly have fought werewolves before or at least know about them , given that by the 1990s their arsenal contained , amongst other exotic armaments , silver bullet s . ( TV : " Battlefield " ) The Fifth Doctor and Turlough encountered Earth - based werewolves in 21st century Brazil , with these wolves so tied to Earth that they couldn ' t even ascend too high without being killed . ( AUDIO : " Loups - Garoux " ) The Seventh Doctor and Ace met and befriended a Vulpana n werewolf named Mags in an era of space travel . Though good - natured , she had little control over her transformations . ( TV : " The Greatest Show in the Galaxy " ) The Eighth Doctor , on a visit with Sam Jones to Saturnia Regina , encountered the Jax , a species thought extinct , who had in ancient times developed a virus controlled with technology that could turn people into werewolves . ( PROSE : " Kursaal " ) Werewolf - like creatures . The Dalek s employed the Werelox . ( COMIC : " The Dogs of Doom " ) Stahlman ' s ooze transformed some humans into degenerated humanoid creatures , the Primord s . ( TV : " Inferno " ) Biological experimentation turned Yrcanos ' s faithful servant into a vulpine humanoid known as the Lukoser . ( TV : " Mindwarp " ) Windigo were similar in biological concepts to werewolves . ( COMIC : " Bad Blood " ) Wardog , parahuman member of the Special Executive s , affiliated to early Gallifrey , was considered a werewolf lookalike . ( COMIC : " Black Sun Rising " ) On a distant planet , the Sixth Doctor and Charley discovered that the local creatures were essentially inverted werewolves , as they were wolf - like beings who turned into a primitive , feral humanoid in the day ( AUDIO : " The Red House " ) .