Have You Seen This Man? (short story)

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Have You Seen This Man? was a segmented short story, a collection of flash fiction spread across three webpages, published on the Who is Doctor Who? website in 2005 by the BBC Web Team to coincide with the 2005 revival of Doctor Who. The overall narrative comprised of lots of information being given about the Doctor's role in Earth's history. The narrative also included the images of the Ninth Doctor at Sumatra in 1880, with the Daniels family in 1912, and at the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, which had been previously seen in TV: Rose.

	Clive Finch
	Sarah Jane, Yates, Dent, Peri
	Earth, c. March 2005
	BBC
	Unknown
	Who is Doctor Who?
	2005
	Segmented flash fiction
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You may be looking for Have You Seen...?, the poem from Now We Are Six Hundred.

The flash fiction was contained in Have You Seen This Man? was collected on a webpage entitled "Contact Clive", which was a place for real world people to submit brief, fictional anecdotes of their encounters with the Doctor, which were officially released by the British Broadcasting Corporation. For obvious reasons, nothing inappropiate, defamatory, or fourth wall breaking was approved, thus maintaining the in-universe and consumer friendly nature of the Who is Doctor Who? website as a whole. Furthermore, as nothing in Have You Seen This Man? breaks any of our valid sources criteria, making this collection of flash fiction is a valid source.

Entries

The collection of entries is arranged in descending order, latest first, the same order as on the webpage itself.

Jenn Steven Hudson Matthew Helva Soprano Mrs. Smith charm Dazza P El Pinguino Venna Steve Hrad Colin blue Thomas Sarah Jane Smith Peter D Mr. Yates Arthur Dent The Cartoonist Perry Winkle Sam Ford Alex Njsjedi E.D. Beckly barry h Daniel Roberts Samuel Wilkinson SkipN R Spendsmith Miles Smith Matneee (entry repeated from earlier) Charlie Pocket Marty McFly Wake U. Sooka Treadstone71 Gavin Matt Bull mississippi man Bugs Nixon domonic hyde Dan Nycia Mark B Julie B Woodie Laura McCabe Ian Dinah May Gerard Shannon Johnny Adrian J Andrews Katharine Benn Stephens Dwayne Pipe Bila Ted Prendergast Kevin Jarvis John Razi Richard J. Kingston Terence Chua Billy Richard Kilpatrick Samuel Preston (entry missing from later revisions) Danu Matneee (entry repeated later) Steve-O Sarah T carol Winnie Malcolm Smith Lizzie John Lord nigel wright Andrew Dr Stanley Sidebottom

Steve Wood Gustavo Lugo Huw Evans Arnold Bocklin Basil Brazil Howard Pitfield Guy Anwar Mandy Thompson Ray Payne C. M West Random C Arbuthnot Posseton Kaleigh O'Connor Wilson Fubbles David Southwell Jonni Ant Williams Karen Lee from Croydon (entry missing from later revisions) C. S. Dr. C.J. Sansom David Gee Peri Brown Chris Steele Xandra Lenea-Ashford rewboss Richard Greenleaf H.J. Hardeman Richard Hawton "Eddie Duggan" Nigel Dawson Clive Evans Mark Simon Cooper Dean Brown Steve Hanson Riccy Unwin WillH Chris Martin j q public A. Fergus Marcus Butler Chris Cave

Characters

(In order of appearance)

Clive Finch Jenn Steven Hudson Matthew Helva Soprano trevor french Mrs. Smith charm Dazza P El Pinguino Venna Steve Hrad Thomas Sarah Jane Smith Peter D Mr. Yates Arthur Dent The Cartoonist Perry Winkle Sam Ford Njsjedi E.D. Beckly barry h Daniel Roberts Samuel Wilkinson SkipN R Spendsmith Miles Smith Matneee Charlie Pocket Marty McFly Wake U. Sooka Treadstone71 Gavin Matt Bull mississippi man Bugs Nixon domonic hyde Dan Nycia Mark B Julie B Woodie Laura McCabe Ian Dinah May Gerard Shannon Johnny Adrian J Andrews Katharine Benn Stephens Dwayne Pipe

Bila Ted Prendergast Kevin Jarvis John Razi Richard J. Kingston Terence Chua Billy Richard Kilpatrick Samuel Preston Danu Matneee Steve-O Sarah T carol Winnie Malcolm Smith Lizzie John Lord nigel wright Andrew Dr Stanley Sidebottom Steve Wood Gustavo Lugo Huw Evans Arnold Bocklin Basil Brazil Howard Pitfield Guy Anwar Mandy Thompson Ray Payne C. M West Random C Arbuthnot Posseton Kaleigh O'Connor Wilson Fubbles David Southwell Jonni Ant Williams Karen Lee from Croydon C. S. Dr. C.J. Sansom David Gee Peri Brown Chris Steele Xandra Lenea-Ashford rewboss Richard Greenleaf H.J. Hardeman Richard Hawton "Eddie Duggan" Nigel Dawson Clive Evans Mark Simon Cooper Dean Brown Steve Hanson Riccy Unwin WillH Chris Martin j q public A. Fergus Marcus Butler Chris Cave

Referenced only

The Doctor Ninth Doctor First Doctor Eighth Doctor Fifth Doctor Seventh Doctor Tour guide The Doctor's granddaughter Dazza P Dazza P's uncle A Scotsman President Lincoln Britney Spears Boy King George VI Old yellow vintage thing Matneee's great grandfather Charlie Pocket's wife Rose Wake U. Sooka's parents Jimi Hendrix Bella Ian's wife Dog Dr. Sirius Drake

Samuel Preston's grandfather Danu's friend Steve-O's great grandfather "Cynthia" Very tall woman Tony Wilson Mandy Thompson's grandfather Random C's grandmother Donkey Kaleigh O'Connor's associate Charles Di Henry VIII Child David Gee's wife Marcus Butler's father

References

• There are images of the Ninth Doctor at Sumatra in 1880; at Southampton, England, in 1912; at Dallas, Texas, in 1963; and on a security camera sometime in the 20th or 21st centuries.
• Samuel Preston mentions the Doctor has "a strange box".

Notes

• From the content seen on the website, this site is probably set prior to TV: Rose, although no explanation is given for the absence of the "Contact Clive" page.
• In many ways, this short story is similar to PROSE: The Book of the War, both being a large collection of smaller narratives, or entries, that make up a larger narrative.

Continuity

• Clive Finch's website was later accessed by Rose Tyler, and she visited Clive, and he showed her the pictures he posted on the site. (TV: Rose, PROSE: Rose)
• The Doctor worked for UNIT in several incarnations. (TV: Spearhead from Space, Robot, et al.)
• The Eighth Doctor was aboard the R101 when it crashed. (AUDIO: Storm Warning, Neverland, et al.)
• Sarah Jane Smith is a reporter. (TV: The Time Warrior, et al.) She would later encounter the Tenth Doctor, fulfilling her desire to meet him again. (TV: School Reunion, et al.)
• Mr. Yates knows the Doctor. (TV: Terror of the Autons, et al.)
• Arthur Dent is an acquaintance with the Doctor. (TV: The Christmas Invasion, PROSE: The Christmas Invasion)
• Star Trek is a television series. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles, The Secret in Vault 13, et al.)
• The Doctor drives Bessie. (TV: Terror of the Autons, et al.)
• The Doctor recollects a visit to Pompeii, mentioning that he "tried to warn them." (AUDIO: The Fires of Vulcan)
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo in 28 June 1914, sparking World War II. (PROSE: Human Nature, COMIC: The Dalek Project, TV: Silver Nemesis, TV: The Family of Blood)
• The Seventh Doctor would later return to Sarajevo in 1995. (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy)
• The Doctor attends a couple of football matches. He also attended other matches in his first, (PROSE: The Rag & Bone Man's Story) fifth, (PROSE: The Church of Football) eighth, (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game, AUDIO: Living Legend) eleventh, (COMIC: They Think It's All Over, Bow-ties for Goal Posts) and twelfth incarnations. (TV: Twice Upon a Time)
• The Doctor was present for the destruction of Big Ben. (TV: Aliens of London)
• The Doctor previously was present for the fall of the Berlin Wall in his eighth incarnation, (PROSE: Father Time) and when he returned in his tenth incarnation, he recollected that he had been present twice before. (PROSE: Autonomy)
• The Doctor also visited Brighton in his fourth (AUDIO: Gallery of Ghouls, TV: The Leisure Hive) and sixth incarnations. (AUDIO: Pier Pressure)
• The Mona Lisa on display in the Louvre is a copy. (TV: City of Death, AUDIO: Dust Breeding, GAME: Old Rope)
• The Doctor retrieves a "large silver metal ball" from the London Underground. (TV: The Web of Fear, et al.)
• The Sixth Doctor also visited Salford two times. (AUDIO: The Vanity Box, The Condemned)

External links

• Have You Seen This Man? at Who is Doctor Who? via the Wayback Machine