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|name           = ''Essay Competition''
|name             = ''Essay Competition''
|image         = Wedding2.jpg
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|main character = [[Mickey Smith]]
|main character   = [[Mickey Smith]]
|featuring     =  
|featuring       = [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Rose Tyler|Rose]]
|setting       = [[Earth]], [[2006]]
|setting         = [[Powell Estate]], [[London]] [[2006]]
|release date   = 8 May 2005
|release date     = 8 May 2005
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'''''Essay Competition''''' was the eighth short story exclusively published on the ''[[Who is Doctor Who? (tie-in website)|Who is Doctor Who?]]'' website on [[8 May (releases)|8 May]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]{{fact}} by the [[BBC webteam]] to coincide with the broadcast of ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'' and ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]''.
'''''Essay Competition''''' was the eighth short story exclusively published on the ''[[Who is Doctor Who? (tie-in website)|Who is Doctor Who?]]'' website on [[8 May (releases)|8 May]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]] by the [[BBC webteam]] to coincide with the broadcast of ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'' and ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]''.


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
[[Mickey Smith|Mickey]] writes on [[Who is Doctor Who?]] about how, now is he is known to not be a [[murderer]], people around [[Powell Estate|the estate]] have been helpful to him. [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]], in particular, had been going through some of her old possessions, and she had found an old [[Stuart Hoskins and Sarah Clark's wedding|wedding]] [[video]] from the [[1980s]], and upon his inspection of it, he had discovered that [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] and the [[Ninth Doctor]] were visible in some shots. Unsure of what they were doing in their own [[past]], he suspects that the Doctor may be meddling with how "[[history]] should be".


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
(In order of appearance)
* [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]]
* [[Suzie (Father's Day)|Suzie]]{{note|n=Unnamed|Unnamed in the story.}}
* [[Sarah Clark]]{{note|n=Unnamed}}
* [[Stuart Hoskins]]{{note|n=Unnamed}}
* [[Rose Tyler]]{{note|n=Unnamed}}
* [[Ninth Doctor]]
=== Referenced only ===
* [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]]


== References ==
== References ==
* This is a small disclaimer about the [[photograph]]s on the site not necessarily being in the webmaster's [[copyright]], although no infringement is intended.
* There is a small icon for [[Campaign for Real Aliens]] and the "[[website]] of the [[month]]" distinction from [[Conspiracy GOLD]].
* There is an advertisement for [[GEOCOMTEX]].
** The advert asks you to switch to them, for "[[Information technology|IT]] [[solution]]s out of this [[world]]".


== Notes ==
== Notes ==


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
== Gallery ==
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" widths="250">
Wedding1 EC.jpg|Rose at the wedding.
Wedding2.jpg|The Doctor at the wedding.
</gallery>


== External links ==
== External links ==
{{elx|page url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210003032/http://www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk/index8.shtml|page name=''Essay Competition''|website url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127163633/http://www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk/|website name=''Who is Doctor Who?'' via the Wayback Machine}}
{{elx|page url=http://web.archive.org/web/20050509004151/http://www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk/|page name=''Essay Competition''|website url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127163633/http://www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk/|website name=''Who is Doctor Who?'' via the Wayback Machine}}
 
== Footnotes ==
=== Notes ===
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=== Sources ===
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Essay Competition was the eighth short story exclusively published on the Who is Doctor Who? website on 8 May 2005[source needed] by the BBC webteam to coincide with the broadcast of Dalek and Father's Day.

Plot

Mickey writes on Who is Doctor Who? about how, now is he is known to not be a murderer, people around the estate have been helpful to him. Jackie, in particular, had been going through some of her old possessions, and she had found an old wedding video from the 1980s, and upon his inspection of it, he had discovered that Rose and the Ninth Doctor were visible in some shots. Unsure of what they were doing in their own past, he suspects that the Doctor may be meddling with how "history should be".

Characters

(In order of appearance)

Referenced only

References

Notes

Continuity

Gallery

External links

Footnotes

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Unnamed in the story.

Sources