Have You Seen This Man? (short story)

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Have You Seen This Man? was the first story exclusively published on the Who is Doctor Who? website on 24 March 2005[1] by the BBC webteam to coincide with the 2005 revival of Doctor Who. The story depicted the Doctor's role in Earth's history, set before and after the events of Rose, through over a hundred pieces of flash fiction spread across three webpages, written both by the BBC and the real world visitors of the Who is Doctor Who? 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, 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 EDA The Tomorrow Windows released on 7 June 2004.

The majority of the flash fiction that built up 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. The BBC evidently moderated the content, as nothing inappropriate, 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.

Entries

The collection of entries is arranged in order, oldest first

# Character Summary
0 Clive Finch On his website Doctor Who?, Clive releases photographs of the Doctor, in chronological order, from the 1880s to 1912 to 1963.
1 Doris Spelgar In 2004, Fred Spelgar went to the hospital for the last time. Doris met the Doctor in the corridor by a drinks machine and he handed over his tea, which she thought was lovely. He told her to keep his cup, which was made of fine bone china.
2 trampus The Doctor, in a hurry, bumped into trampus and did not apologise.
3 Aaron Smith Aaron met the Doctor in a department store six months before.
4 Geoff Cliff Geoff was in HMV "last Tuesday" and was asked for advice by the Doctor, who was looking at the drum and bass CDs. Geoff recomemended Ultra by Depeche Mode.
5 r willimas In B&Q, r willimas saw the Doctor buy a tin of cosmos blue paint and ask the assistant for the over 65s 10% discount. When asked his age, the Doctor decided against saying and paid for the paint.
6 Joanne Marsden The Doctor, dressed in the uniform of a bus driver, stopped the 68 bus to Bolton and took over from the driver, who protested. The Doctor drove for about a quarter of a mile and let off all of the passengers except for a woman, making Joanne half an hour late for work. She saw the bus drive away down Lancaster Rd.
7 Chris Fazey Chris met the Doctor at Chester Zoo, where he was speaking to a giraffe.
8 Thomas Vaughan Not long before Christmas, Thomas was haggling for a carpet in a souk in Marrakech when the Doctor came in, said something to the shopkeeper in Arabic and then left.
9 Matt The day before, Matt was knocked down to the sidewalk by the Doctor and "some girl".
10 Steve M. Steve saw the Doctor scrawl the numbers 23 6 801 on a wall.
11 Andrew Wooding When Andrew went to school in Surrey thirty years ago, the Doctor did a painting class with the students, getting them to paint their dreams. Andrew never found out why.
12 Pete Lambert Pete remembers that the Doctor less than fondly; the Doctor seemed to be the "independent consultant" that was called in at the council where he worked in the wake of an industrial accident that was "hushed up" a few months back. Pete was sick of his sort, coming in and "walk[ing] all over [their] procedures", and that the press was not interested.
13 GPW GPW recalls that the Doctor found their two kids in Castleton in the Peak District after they went missing. When they returned, GPW's kids knew "silly stories about lizard people".
14 Antonio Spinozzi Antonio met the Doctor a few years prior, when he bought a battery for his new mobile phone.
15 j Mendoza j Mendoza saw the Doctor in the Los Angeles fashion district, carrying fruit and vegetables.
16 Benjamin McKenzie Benjamin saw the Doctor in a photograph from 1892 that he was shown in the Melbourne Immigration Museum; it was of a group of Irish immigrants holding strange fish they had caught on their journey.
17 Josiah Rowe Josiah says that the Doctor was in a photo taken during his grandfather's time as a pilot in the American Army Air Corps in the First World War. His grandfather also wrote about the Doctor in a letter, describing how he appeared at a base in Foggia, Italy, then ingratiated himself with the CO and then proceeded to steal a Spad XIII. Josiah offers to find a scanner and send Clive the photo and the letter.
18 Stephen Norris Stephen met the Doctor in 2004 in an internet café in Las Palmas, when he was putting up a birthday message for his friend on the Liverpool website. The Doctor told him not to as there would be no future in it, and when Stephen asked whether the Doctor meant supporting Liverpool or being Anthony's friend, he said both.
19 Dave Tonbridge Dave swears that the Doctor was the Best Man at his parents' wedding, over forty years ago.
20 David Grant David has seen the Doctor in a photograph of his dad in his army days. The Doctor was in the background, holding something made of steel.
21 Derek Cook Derek saw the Doctor, although from the back only, at the British Library Cosmology Section, skimming a book about the "definitive" creation of the universe, laughing, tutting and scribbling in the margins. The Doctor hurriedly left after a Librarian asked him for identification.
22 Ms Millicent Davies Millicent, a senior librarian at York Central Library, banned the Doctor for "defacing books", as he erased parts of numerous biographies with a device and put in his own "scribbles". She writes that she has applied for the Doctor to be given an ASBO.
23 JR JR's mother saw the Doctor in 1977 and thinks that he has not aged a day.
24 Edward J Green Edward saw the Doctor a week ago, buying a copy of Heat in a newsagents. Edward wished him a good morning, but the Doctor just stared at him.
25 Chris Cave Chris saw the Doctor fishing on Trent Bridge in Nottingham.
26 Marcus Butler Marcus's father, in the 1960s, played in a skiffle band, typically busking in the streets. The Doctor would, on occasion, join in with the band, playing spoons.
27 A. Fergus A. Fergus, doing a report on the fifth birthday of the London Eye for 60 Seconds on BBC3 a couple of months prior, was interrupted halfway through by the Doctor, with blood on his face, telling the crew to run. Despite Fergus and his crew being experienced, they ran like children and never stopped to ask the Doctor any questions.
28 j q public j q public saw the Ninth Doctor arguing with a little man with an umbrella on a university campus.
29 Chris Martin Chris saw the Doctor get kicked off a train as his season ticket was not valid until 2009.
30 WillH WillH saw the Doctor in a book of photographs of Victoria in a local library, noting that there were not many people in the 19th century who wore leather jackets.
30 Riccy Unwin In a café in Cambridge, Riccy saw the Doctor attempting to pay for a cup of tea with old, larger 10p coins, so Riccy gave him a newer 50p to pay for the tea, as he was holding up the queue.
31 Steve Hanson Steve saw the Doctor circa 2003, with a group of fanatics, attempting to save an old cinema in Salford. Despite the protests, the cinema was pulled down.
32 Dean Brown Dean saw pictures of someone that he suspected to be the Doctor's father in an old New Zealand newspaper by Christchurch Press. The pictures were part of an article from 1978 about UFO sightings off the coast.
33 Simon Cooper Simon met the Doctor in Mornington Crescent underground station in 1999 whilst waiting for the lift down to the platform. The Doctor rushed past him, carrying a "large silver metal ball", and went off in the direction of Camden.
34 Mark Mark saw the Doctor in a supermarket, buying spam and corned beef, muttering "she'll eat what she's given".
35 Clive Evans Clive heard the Doctor, whilst visiting the Louvre in Paris, muttering that he preferred the original Mona Lisa.
36 Nigel Dawson Nigel saw the Doctor at a police station in Wetherby, Yorkshire.
37 "Eddie Duggan" Eddie met the Doctor in a square in Prague, 1999, at about 4AM after coming out of a club. They had a long conversation about early reggae records.
38 Richard Hawton Richard saw the Doctor protesting at West Pier in Brighton a few years ago, saying that the pier should be preserved. After it burnt down under "mysterious circumstances", Richard felt the Doctor would be gutted.
39 H.J. Hardeman H.J. Hardeman saw the Doctor at an Oxfam in Sheffield a year ago, where he tried to swap "Edwardian gear" for a pair of jeans and trainers.
40 rewboss rewboss met the Doctor at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, where the Doctor remarked about meeting rewboss again, although reboss did not recognise the Doctor. rewboss later met the Doctor in Wolverhampton in 1991, but the Doctor failed to recognise him, and rewboss suspected that the Doctor had merely forgot about him over the course of a few years.
41 Lonnie Lonnie points out that the Doctor can be seen vanishing behind Lonnie Donegan in an old tape of "Putting On The Donegan" from 1964.
42 Huw Evans In 1977, Huw saw the Doctor and a very tall woman queueing to see Star Wars at the Commodore cinema in Aberystwyth.
43 Richard Greenleaf Richard met him earlier that day, when the Doctor stole his wheelie bin from the end of Richard's drive whilst shouting something.
44 Xandra Lenea-Ashford Xandra was handed a flowerpot and a small spade by the Doctor whilst she was on holiday a couple of years before, apologising. Xandra, however, did not know how to garden.
45 Chris Steele Chris believes that he saw the Doctor on Survivor.
46 Peri Brown Peri met the Doctor once, but never saw him again. She is interested in getting back in touch.
47 David Gee David saw the Doctor pull a child out of the path of a VW Beetle in Southport 1987. The Doctor then told David and his wife that "I'll regret that in the morning" before disappearing into the crowd.
48 Dr C.J. Sansom Dr C.J. Sansom writes about how they found an "unexpected cache of Tudor parchments" in an archive whilst researching Henry VIII's visit to York in 1541, finding one document claiming that Henry VIII was an illegitimate grandson of 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 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.
49 C. S. C. S. remembers that they had gotten separated from their classmates at 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 a grinding noise, expecting another explosion, but the noise simply faded away.
50 Lee from Croydon Lee writes about how, after Christmas, he saw the Doctor looking up at Big Ben, laughing, telling him to "make the most of it while you can".
51 Karen Karen met the Doctor at Royal Tunbridge Wells, muttering something about finding a coach and horses.
52 Ant Williams Ant saw the Doctor buying an issue of Classic Rock with a Ł10 piece in a local W H Smith's.
53 Jonni Jonni met the Doctor just before a football match at Bury, filling in a pools coupon and asking Jonni if they had any chance of winning.
54 David Southwell David met the Doctor at Highbury a "couple of weekends ago", reading a book for most of the duration except for the exact moments before a goal was scored or something else interesting happened.
55 Wilson Fubbles Wilson had stood next to the Doctor in 1981 during the wedding of Charles and Di, outside St Paul's. The Doctor muttered about how the wedding would not last, but was more successful than Charles's next wedding.
56 Kaleigh O'Connor Kaleigh met the Doctor in Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he asked Kaleigh's associate for directions to the Washington Irving Museum.
55 Arbuthnot Posseton Arbuthnot writes, in real time, that he can see the Doctor across the road outside an antique shop.
57 Random C Random C has a photo of their gran, which seems to include the Doctor in the background, talking to a donkey. This detail stuck in Random C's head as a child.
58 C. M West C. M West encountered the Doctor on a lower observation deck of Tokyo Tower in 1991, who described the course of a fire and its path of destruction to a cute blonde girl. Upon being asked if they were shooting a Godzilla movie, they pretended to not understand English.
59 Ray Payne Ray met the Doctor in a pub in New Cross, where he asked the Doctor if he "[had] got the time?", but the Doctor replied that time was an abstract concept created by man and does not actually exist. Ray suspected the Doctor had had a few pints.
60 Mandy Thompson Mandy writes about her grandad, who claimed to have met the Doctor in WW2 and believed that the Doctor was connected to the government. Mandy mentions that he refused to elaborate further, clamming up despite his usual tendency to "ramble" on with his war stories.
61 Guy Anwar Standing outside the Green Man after finishing his lunch of fish and chips, Guy saw the anxious-looking Doctor run down Cheltenham High Street with a a girl with blonde hair.
62 Howard Pitfield Howard, who worked outside the United Kingdom from 1975 to 1984, saw the Doctor at the Gates of the Khyber Pass in Northern Pakistan.
63 Basil Brazil Basil claims that the Doctor is working as a computer programmer.
64 Arnold Bocklin Arnold thinks that the Ninth Doctor looks like a homeless man he saw on Whitworth Street in Manchester in the 1980s. This man argued with Tony Wilson and would quote poetry if given money.
65 Gustavo Lugo Gustavo saw the Doctor a couple of weeks prior in a local comic book shop, attempting to sell early Spider-Man comics from the 1960s and 70s, only for the owner to refuse as he thought they looked too new to be original copies.
66 Steve Wood Steve saw the Doctor in his local newspaper, as he had gone into a local family run garden centre and set fire to their aisle of recently imported tropical plants. The police continued to conduct enquiries into the matter.
67 Dr Stanley Sidebottom Dr Sidebottom saw that the main effigy of Ahura Mazda in a frieze on an ancient Zorastrian Persian temple in modern Baghdad. The next day, as Stanley recounted, he saw the Doctor in a teashop where he spoke with the locals in fluent Iraqi.
68 Andrew Andrew had seen the Doctor in a local arcade in the 1980s, playing Pac Man and Galaga.
69 nigel wright nigel says that the Doctor can be seen in the background of various photographs of the Manhattan Project.
70 John Lord John saw the Doctor in a curry house in Bradford a couple of weeks prior. He ordered a Chicken Tikka Masala.
71 Lizzie Lizzie recounts that she saw the Doctor near a lift in a Debenhams, Sheffield, asking for directions to the Winter Gardens. After she and someone else turned away to figure out the best route, she found that the Doctor had gone.
72 Winnie Malcolm Smith Winnie recalls that, outside Fettes College in 1972, she eavesdropped on a conversation between the Doctor and a teenage boy called "Cynthia", with the doctor telling him to stay in the school's drama group as opposed to a career in politics, which would have "global implications".
73 carol carol remembers a statue of a miner on the Dover sea front and wonders who it is based on.
74 Sarah T Sarah saw the Doctor at Waterloo Station, reading the dictionary.
75 Steve-O Steve-O met the Doctor just prior to doing his A-Levels the previous year, where he was told that electrons have a negative charge.
76 Matneee Matneee's great grandfather showed them a photograph of the Doctor in Sarajevo in 1914, shouting something about ducks.
77 Samuel Preston Fourteen-year-old Samuel reports that he showed the site to his grandfather, who told him never to look at it again. Later, Samuel found his grandfather's diary from WWII and read an entry about his arrival in Auschwitz in 1944 following Germany's defeat. When he saw a man he believed to be a Nazi attempting to escape, his grandfather shot him, then locked him in a cell, taking a photograph as evidence. His grandfather also discovered a "strange box" in a field nearby. Later, he found that the cell was empty and the box had vanished. Samuel says that the photo, stuck in the diary, showed the Doctor.
78 Danu Danu met the Doctor in The Blue Angel in Islington on 6 January 1995. The Doctor was fascinated by Danu's friend's tattoos.
79 Richard Kilpatrick It was in 1987 at a concert when Richard saw the Doctor. The Doctor had been playing the guitar in a session band for one of Marillion's support acts, acting worried. Shortly thereafter, Fish left the band.
80 Billy Billy has a similar tale to Samuel's, where his grandmother saw the Doctor in May 1945 as a child. Billy's grandmother had been looking at a destroyed building, when the Doctor told her the War would end the following day.
81 Terence Chua Terence recalls his research at University of Georgia on the American Civil War, where he went through photos of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863; Terence was mystified by what he found as, in one photo, a man who seemed to be the Ninth Doctor was dressed in a Union Army captain's uniform next to a converted field hospital whilst, in another, he wore a Confederate colonel's uniform, with a bandaged arm, in a group of prisoners.
82 Richard J. Kingston Richard remembers vividly that, in the summer of 1962, the Doctor was admitted as a patient at a 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 Dr Sirius Drake, whose private quarters and laboratory.[statement unclear] 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".
83 John Razi John had seen the Doctor working as a security guard whilst he was working at a secretive job in London.
84 Kevin Jarvis Kevin saw the Doctor in two photographs taken of his village in 1946, standing next to a war memorial.
85 Ted Prendergast Ted saw the Doctor pretending to be a photo-journalist in the North East in the 1990s.
86 Bila The day prior, Bila saw the Doctor's face in her toast, but ate it out of hunger before taking a picture.
87 Dwayne Pipe In a Smiths, Dwayne saw the Doctor laughing whilst reading a copy of The Da Vinci Code.
88 Benn Stephens Benn met the Doctor the day his local church burned to the ground. The Doctor had told the local authorities what Benn recalled as ghost stories, but when they tried to find him for their enquiries, he was nowhere to be found.
89 Katharine Katharine met the Doctor whilst she was on her PGCE course in Walsall, helping her with human anatomy before vanishing.
90 Adrian J Andrews Recently, Adrian's dog fell ill after eating some weeds, causing blue growths to appear on the dog's side. The vet gave Adrian medicine for the dog and Adrian contacted the local garden centre about the weeds; within an hour, the Doctor appeared at Adrian's door, claiming to be a botanist, and gave him a balm to rub into the dog's growths that healed them up quickly.
91 Johnny Johnny writes that he has just seen the Doctor run past his house.
92 Gerard Shannon When Gerard was visiting Newgrange in Co. Meath, Ireland with a group of friends, they saw the Doctor and a blonde girl exit the tomb, saying that "they're trapped down there for another 5000 years!"
93 Dinah May Dinah remembers how she saw the Doctor several years prior, dumping some old clothes at a local tip. When Dinah asked him about it, he told her that he was just having a clear out.
94 Ian On 26 November 2004, the Doctor gave Ian and his wife a silver cross whilst Ian was helping his wife into his car, telling them their daughter would need it the future. On 27 November, their daughter, bella, was born and Ian gave her the cross, feeling confident that she would need it.
95 Laura McCabe Carrick Castle in Northern Ireland was visited by eleven year old Laura, who saw the Doctor inspecting military archives and suits of metal armour, telling her that it was "much safer" than plastic.
96 Woodie Whilst visiting the ruins of Pompeii, Woodie was told by the Doctor that he tried to warn them.
97 Julie B Julie knows of a statue in the Egyptian museum from 2500BC that "has a striking resemblance to [the Doctor]".
98 Mark B Mark saw the Doctor whilst he was on holiday in Tunisia, asking Mark if he was interested in time shares.
99 Dan Nycia Dan saw the Doctor exiting a disused quarry near Dan's home, telling Dan "I always land in a quarry. It's the last place anyone would think to look."
100 domonic hyde domonic had seen the Doctor just before closing time outside the Kings Head in Orford, Suffolk on 28 December 1980, when the Doctor came out of his "blue box" just as domonic was getting into his car. The Doctor warned domonic not to go past Ipswich past Bentwaters or Rendlesham Forest and to find a different route home; whilst domonic heeded the Doctor's advice, he "saw some very strange lights in the sky".
101 Bugs Nixon Bugs recollects that he saw the Doctor in Asda in 1979, buying up Star Wars action figures.
102 mississippi man mississippi man remembers that, in the mid-1940s, he was in a blues bar in Mississippi when the Doctor arrived and played a Jimi Hendrix song on stage, years before the song was released. It was only in 1969 that mississippi man discovered this.
103 Matt Bull When Matt was eight, he saw the Doctor singing opera to a bush in Matt's local park. The Doctor was singing out of tune.
104 Gavin Gavin was told by his grandfather that his great grandfather's cuckoo clock was repaired by the Doctor.
105 Treadstone71 Treadstone71 saw someone who looked like the Doctor serving fried eggs at a staff canteen, whispering something about the Da Vinci Code being his idea.
106 Wake U. Sooka Wake writes about when he was fourteen, in 1984, he was fishing in solitary not too far from his parents' home when he snagged a turtle-like creature. He continued to reel it in even as it hissed at him, but the Doctor quickly appeared and cut the 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.
107 Marty McFly Marty claims to know the Doctor, whom he says stole his DeLorean.
108 Charlie Pocket Charlie remembers his wedding to his wife in Las Vegas in 1992. As they needed a witness and best man, they grabbed the first couple they could find: the Doctor and a blonde girl of about 19 years of age.
N/A Matneee see the entry above
109 Miles Smith Miles saw the Doctor in an antique shop on Church Street, North London, trying to sell an old chess set.
110 R Spendsmith R Spendsmith thinks that the Doctor is the spitting image of a man he saw not too long ago who had broken down on the side of a road in some old yellow vintage thing, next to a confused AA man.
111 SkipN SkipN saw the Doctor at a Boston Red Sox game in 1998, when the Doctor told him to be patient and wait until 2004.
112 Samuel Wilkinson Samuel saw the Doctor on the tube reading a copy of A Brief History of Time, laughing heartily.
113 Daniel Roberts 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 in 1936, which would make him over a hundred years old.
114 barry h barry saw the Doctor shopping in a heart foundation charity shop when the Doctor offered to donate one of his two hearts to them.
115 E.D. Beckly E.D. Beckly was working part time at a local library when the Doctor asked them where the history section was. He came back ten minutes later, asking where the accurate books were.
116 Njsjedi Njsjedi was at a tea shop when they saw the Doctor, who asked for "two lumps" in his tea, then asked for two sugars.
117 Alex Alex met the Doctor at the Star Trek-Science Exhibition at the Science Museum. The Doctor was amused by the props of a possible future.
118 Sam Ford Sam saw the Doctor in a library in Stafford, reading a book by Charles Dickens.
119 Perry Winkle Perry used to go to school with a boy in Salford who looked like the Doctor, about thirty years prior.
120 The Cartoonist The Cartoonist saw the Doctor jump out of a Routemaster bus on Tottenham Court Road in London, at the corner of New Oxford Street. However, Routemaster no longer operated on that road.
121 Arthur Dent Arthur Dent recounts that the Doctor had laid down in front of a bulldozer outside of his home.
122 Mr Yates Mr Yates tries telling the other users to not "concern [themselves]" with the Doctor, as he "is not the man you think", and he knew this from experience. He adds that the Doctor is protected "by friends in high places".
123 Peter D Peter tells anybody reading that if they check the footage of the Royal Wedding, the Doctor can be seen in the background near an OB van.However, he was also visible in footage taken a hundred miles away in Aintree, less than an hour later, and in footage taken a day prior at a funeral at St Peter's.
124 Sarah Jane Smith Sarah Jane Smith says that she is currently doing a story on the Doctor and asks that, if anyone sees him in London, they should contact her as she wants to interview him.
125 Thomas Thomas remembers that he met the Doctor at a roller-disco in 1973 and does not think he has aged a day.
126 blue blue was hiking in Tibet when he saw a man in a leather jacket talking to several buddhist 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.
127 Colin Colin recalls that about three weeks earlier, the Doctor bought a Dandy annual and a pair of opera glasses from an Age Concern charity shop in Northampton with unconventional currency.
128 Steve Hrad Steve met the Doctor a few days prior in a park whilst listening to a Britney Spears CD on his boombox. The Doctor told him that, "when you're long gone, that song will live on."
129 Venna Venna remembers that, a few months ago, at a performance of 1776 at the Ford's Theatre in Washington DC, she encountered the Doctor, who seemed to have been looking for President Lincoln. He spent the duration of the performance of the play staring at the empty pedestal where the busts were normally kept.
130 El Pinguino El Pinguino has also researched the Doctor, finding records of him aboard the R101. El Pinguino also found rumours of an "El Daktar" in 3rd Dynasty Egypt.
131 Dazza P Dazza recalls that his uncle worked as a lab assistant for some "over-rated army base, a special unit", and that the head of the group used the Doctor to "head up" the scientific research. However, as there were many Doctors working for this unit, Dazza suspected that "Doctor" was a codename.
132 charm charm claims that Doctor Who is her friend.
133 Mrs Smith Mrs Smith remembers that she had met an older, white haired gentlemen in 1963 who went by the name of "the Doctor", with his granddaughter, who visited the Ritz Theatre on Totter's Lane to watch a film about the fall of Rome, though he repeated kept pointing out inaccuracies. Mrs Smith, an usherette, told him to leave, and he took off with his granddaughter towards a junkyard.
134 Trevor French Trevor recalls that about twenty years ago, he and her school visited a planetarium in London, meeting the Doctor, who talked about Halley's Comet and gave them orange fruit gums.
135 Helva Soprano Helva claims that the Doctor did some contracting work for her firm of architects. The work the Doctor did couldn't be used because the floor plans were bigger on the inside.
136 Matthew Matthew recounts his brush with the Doctor, when the Doctor corrected Matthew's tour guide on a school trip to Chepstow Castle.
137 Steven Hudson Steven shares his experience with the Doctor, when he spotted him, believing him to be drunk. Steven noticed that the Doctor was wearing a frock coat, repeatedly muttering that "they’re all gone, I'm the only one left."
138 Jenn Jenn shares her encounter with the Ninth Doctor when she was going to flunk off from doing her A-Levels after not revising, when the Doctor told her that the world would be doomed if she did. She expresses shock about the Doctor being alien.

Characters

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References

Notes

DWM 436's The Fact of Fiction article on Inferno mentions the numerous accounts of the eruption of Krakatoa, including the image from Have You Seen This Man?.

Crossovers

Some of the entries depicted unofficial crossovers with other non-DWU series.

Authorship

Most of the contributors remain effectively anonymous, as they either used unidentifiable handles, invented fake names, wrote from the perspective of established fictional characters or entered names which are too common to trace. However, some can be positively identified.

  • Andrew Bossom, an individual who documents the culture, history and people of Germany, wrote his entry about the fall of the Berlin Wall.[6]
  • Adrian J Andrews, a notable Doctor Who fan, used his real full name for his entry.[7]
  • A member of the production crew for series one of 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.[8] The username suggests the perpetrator may have been either Steven Moffat or someone impersonating him as part of the joke.

Removed entries

As the BBC moderated submissions, no obvious spam or offensive material was accepted; however, some submissions that were initially accepted were removed without explanation in later updates.

  • Lonnie's entry documented an appearance of the Ninth Doctor in a tape of "Putting On The Donegan" from 1964. This entry contained nothing inappropiate so its removal is a mystery.
  • Lee from Croydon's entry recollected how he had met the Doctor circa Christmas 2004, where the Doctor laughed at the future destruction of Big Ben. This may have been removed due to its similarity, or it being a reference to, the then-unreleased Aliens of London.
  • Samuel Preston's entry told the story of how his grandfather, a soldier in World War II, had shot a Nazi during the liberation of Auschwitz and that this Nazi had been the Doctor. This was evidently intended as a reference to the Ninth Doctor's leather jacket resembling that of a German naval officer, the implication being that he was shot in a case of mistaken identity. The entry was presumably removed for its perceived trivialisation of the Holocaust, and/or its somewhat ambiguous connection of the Doctor with Nazism.

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Doctor Who on BBC via the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Have You Seen This Man? (23/04/2005) on whoisdoctorwho.co.uk via the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Have You Seen This Man? (26/03/2005) on whoisdoctorwho.co.uk via the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Have You Seen This Man? (27/03/2005) on whoisdoctorwho.co.uk via the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ DWM 436 - The Fact of Fiction: Inferno
  6. ↑ Fun With Time Loops on aristidetwain.tumblr.com
  7. ↑ Tributes pour in for well-known Kemp Town ghost tour guide on The Argus
  8. ↑ Website survey results on bbc.co.uk
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