Have You Seen This Man? (short story): Difference between revisions

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|name                 = ''Have You Seen This Man?''

|image               = Have You Seen This Man?.jpg

|main character       = [[Clive Finch]]

|featuring           = [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]], [[Mike Yates|Yates]], [[Arthur Dent|Dent]], [[Peri Brown|Peri]], [[A. Fergus|Fergus]]

|setting             = [[Earth]], c. [[March]]-[[April]] [[2005]]

|release date         = 23 March 2005 - 23 April 2005

|release date display = [[24 March (releases)|24 March]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]<ref name="bbc24"/> - [[23 April (releases)|23 April]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]<ref name="23april">[https://web.archive.org/web/20050423184347/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/whoisdoctorwho/sightings.shtml ''Have You Seen This Man?'' (23/04/2005) on whoisdoctorwho.co.uk via the Wayback Machine]</ref>

|writer               = [[#Authorship|various authors]]

|contributors        = [[#Authorship|see credits]]

|plural writer       = true

|publisher           = BBC

|format               = Segmented flash fiction

|genre                = Science fiction

|website             = ''[[Who is Doctor Who? (tie-in website)|Who is Doctor Who?]]''

|series               = [[Who is Doctor Who? (tie-in website)|''Who is Doctor Who?'' fiction]]

|next                 = Dummy Massacre (short story)

'''''Have You Seen This Man?''''' was the first story exclusively published on the ''[[Who is Doctor Who? (tie-in website)|Who is Doctor Who?]]'' website on [[24 March (releases)|24 March]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]<ref name="bbc24">[https://web.archive.org/web/20050324055740/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/ ''Doctor Who'' on BBC via the Wayback Machine]</ref> by the [[BBC webteam]] to coincide with the [[Series 1 (Doctor Who 2005)|2005 revival]] of ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]''. The story depicted [[the Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor in Earth history|role in Earth's history]], set before and after the events of ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', through over a hundred pieces of {{w|flash fiction}} spread across three webpages, written both by the BBC and the real world visitors of the ''Who is Doctor Who?'' [[Doctor Who tie-in websites|tie-in website]].

This story was also notable for including the first mentions of [[Rose Tyler]] and the [[London UFO crash]] and first appearance of [[Clive Finch]], before the premiere broadcast of ''Rose'' and ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'', which was released around two days after the first entries in ''Have You Seen This Man?'' were released. Technically, this was not the first appearance of the [[Ninth Doctor]] however as the character first cameoed in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|EDA]] ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'' released on [[7 June (releases)|7 June]] [[2004 (releases)|2004]].

| In [[B&Q]], r willimas saw the Doctor buy a [[tin (container)|tin]] of [[cosmos blue]] [[paint]] and ask [[assistant (Have You Seen This Man?)|the assistant]] for the over [[65 (number)|65s]] [[10 (number)|10]][[%]] [[discount]]. When asked his age, the Doctor decided against saying and paid for the paint.

| When Andrew went to [[School 1 (Have You Seen This Man?)|school]] in [[Surrey]] [[30 (number)|thirty]] years ago, the Doctor did a [[painting class]] with the students, getting them to [[paint]] their [[dream]]s. Andrew never found out why.

| David has seen the Doctor in a photograph of [[David Grant's father|his dad]] in his army days. The Doctor was in the [[background]], holding something made of [[steel]].

| David saw the Doctor pull [[child (Have You Seen This Man?)|a child]] out of the path of [[Volkswagen Beetle (Have You Seen This Man?)|a VW Beetle]] in [[Southport]] [[1987]]. The Doctor then told David and [[David Gee's wife|his wife]] that "I'll [[regret]] that in the [[morning]]" before disappearing into the [[crowd]].

| Dr C.J. Sansom writes about how they found an "unexpected [[cache]] of [[Tudor]] [[parchment]]s" in [[Archive (Have You Seen This Man?)|an archive]] whilst researching [[Henry VIII]]'s visit to [[York]] in [[1541]], finding one document claiming that Henry VIII was an illegitimate grandson of [[Archer (Have You Seen This Man?)|an archer]] and thus had no claim to the [[throne]]. After Sansom excitedly began reading it, the Doctor appeared, snatched the cache and told Sansom that he needed to return it, otherwise "[[Rose Tyler|Rose]] is for the [[rack]]". After the Doctor left, Sansom searched for other records of this claim about Henry VIII, but was unable to find anything.

| C. S. remembers that they had gotten separated from their classmates at [[School 2 (Have You Seen This Man?)|their school]] on the same day there was an [[explosion]]. C. S. met the Doctor coming out of the [[boiler]] room [[door]], [[smoke]] pouring out behind him, and he told C. S. that they needed a new boiler. C. S. tried to follow him, but lost him in a hall. C. S. then heard [[Dematerialisation circuit|a grinding noise]], expecting another explosion, but the noise simply faded away.

| Ant saw the Doctor buying an issue of ''[[Classic Rock]]'' with a [[Zł|Ł]][[Zł10|10]] piece in a local [[W H Smith 1 (Have You Seen This Man?)|W H Smith's]].

| Andrew had seen the Doctor in a [[arcade (Have You Seen This Man?)|local arcade]] in the 1980s, playing ''[[Pac-Man]]'' and ''[[Galaga]]''.

| Steve-O met the Doctor just prior to doing his [[A level|A-Levels]] the previous year, where he was told that [[electron]]s have a [[negative charge]].

| Richard remembers vividly that, in the [[summer]] of [[1962]], the Doctor was admitted as a patient at a [[psychiatric institution (Have You Seen This Man?)|psychiatric institution]]. The Doctor, whom Richard thought was delusional, often caused unrest among the other patients and inexplicably escaped from his cell despite sedation. After a week, the Doctor disappeared, perhaps in connection with the disappearance of head physician [[Sirius Drake|Dr Sirius Drake]], whose private quarters and [[laboratory]] had burned down. The mystery was never solved, as the facility was closed by the government a few days later. Richard concludes by warning others of the dangers of this "Doctor".

| Wake writes about when he was [[14 (number)|fourteen]], in [[1984]], he was [[fishing]] in solitary not too far from [[Wake U. Sooka's parents|his parents]]' [[Wake U. Sooka's home|home]] when he snagged [[Creature (Have You Seen This Man?)|a turtle-like creature]]. He continued to reel it in even as it hissed at him, but the Doctor quickly appeared and cut the [[fishing twine|line]] with what seemed to be a [[knife]], sending the creature back into the [[stream]]. The Doctor told him it was the "kind of catch no one wants or needs", handing Wake a cluster of odd-looking, but tasty, [[fish]] before leaving.

| Daniel disagrees that the Doctor could still be alive in the 21st century as he knows of photographic [[evidence]] of him taking part in [[King]] [[George VI]]'s [[Coronation of George VI|coronation]] in [[1936]], which would make him over [[The Doctor's age|a hundred years old]].

| barry saw the Doctor shopping in a [[British Heart Foundation|heart foundation]] [[charity shop]] when the Doctor offered to donate one of his [[Binary vascular system|two hearts]] to them.

| Perry used to go to school with [[Christopher Eccleston (in-universe)|a boy]] in [[Salford]] who looked like the Doctor, about thirty years prior.

| Peter tells anybody reading that if they check the [[footage]] of the [[Wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles|Royal Wedding]], the Doctor can be seen in the background near an [[Outside broadcasting|OB]] [[van]]. However, he was also visible in footage taken a [[100 (number)|hundred]] [[mile]]s away in [[Aintree]], less than an hour later, and in footage taken a day prior at [[Funeral of Pope John Paul II|a funeral]] at [[Saint Peter's Basilica|St Peter's]].

| blue was [[hiking]] in [[Tibet]] when he saw a man in a [[leather jacket]] talking to several [[buddhist]] [[Det-Sen Monastery|monks]]. blue later saw the same man outside a [[monastery]] outside [[Lhasa]], where the Doctor told him "keep on going, you will see", and claims that it was not due to the high [[altitude]] making him [[giddy]].

| Trevor recalls that about [[20 (number)|twenty]] [[year]]s ago, he and [[School 3 (Have You Seen This Man?)|her school]] visited a [[planetarium]] in [[London]], meeting the Doctor, who talked about [[Halley's Comet]] and gave them [[orange (colour)|orange]] [[fruit gum]]s.

* [[Christopher Eccleston (in-universe)|Boy]]

== Worldbuilding ==

* Geoff noted that the Doctor was buying a present for someone, and so he recommended what he believed was the best CD in the whole [[world]], ''[[Ultra]]''.

* The story also included the images of the [[Ninth Doctor]] at [[Sumatra]] in [[1880]] or [[1888]], with the [[Daniels family (Rose)|Daniels family]] in [[1912]] and at [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|the assassination]] of [[John F. Kennedy]] in [[1963]], which had been previously seen in ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''.

* A member of the production crew for [[Series 1 (Doctor Who 2005)|series one]] of ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]'' may have been responsible for [[Steve M.]]'s entry, as it pertains to the reported "misleading fun" the crew had with the [[23 6 801]] sequence of numbers.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050720004433/https://bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2005/07/06/20444.shtml ''Website survey results'' on bbc.co.uk]</ref> The username suggests the perpetrator may have been either [[Steven Moffat]] or someone impersonating him as part of the joke.

* The Doctor also visited [[Brighton]] in his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gallery of Ghouls (audio story)|Gallery of Ghouls]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive (TV story)|The Leisure Hive]]'') and [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnations]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pier Pressure (audio story)|Pier Pressure]]'')

* The Doctor attends a couple of [[football]] matches. He also attended other matches in his [[First Doctor|first]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)|The Rag & Bone Man's Story]]'') [[Fifth Doctor|fifth]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Church of Football (short story)|The Church of Football]]'') [[Eighth Doctor|eighth]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Living Legend (audio story)|Living Legend]]'') [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[They Think It's All Over (comic story)|They Think It's All Over]]'', ''[[Bow-ties for Goal Posts (comic story)|Bow-ties for Goal Posts]]'') and [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnations]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

== Worldbuilding ==