Doctor Who: 10 Storylines That Will Never Be Revisited
1. Queen Victoria's Werewolf Illness
This is definitely one of the weirdest threads that Doctor Who has ever left dangling, which is saying a lot considering how bizarre this show can get.
In one of David Tennant's first adventures as the Tenth Doctor, he and Rose travelled to the year 1879, where they met Queen Victoria and faced off against a hungry werewolf. Y'know, standard stuff. Inevitably, the Doctor managed to save the day and scare the beastie off, but not before it had a nibble on the Queenie's wrist, resulting in a cut that she tried to brush off as a splinter.
At the very end of the episode, the Doctor muses that Victoria would actually become a werewolf because of this, speculating that she also passed the disease on to her children, who then passed it on to theirs, and so on. He concludes by saying that - in the early 21st Century - the entire Royal Family might actually be werewolves.
Unfortunately, this intriguing idea was never explored any further, and was left as a cute little gag on the tail-end of the episode. Needless to say, the Royal Family turning into hairy doggies every full moon could have some pretty huge ramifications for the entire country, but the show, sadly, has yet to revisit this thread in the modern day.
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