Have You Seen This Man? (short story)
- You may be looking for Have You Seen...?, the poem from Now We Are Six Hundred.
Have You Seen This Man? was a segmented 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 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.
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 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, this collection of flash fiction is a valid source.
Entries
Samuel Preston
Samuel Preston, a fourteen year old, finds whoisdoctorwho.co.uk, and shows it to his grandfather, who forbids Samuel from ever going on the website again; later that day, Samuel found his grandfather's diary from WWII, which contained his grandfather's accounts of when he arrived in Auschwitz in 1944 just after the war, he had shot a Nazi, locking him in a cell, how the grandfather had taken a photograph of his prisoner and of a strange box in a field, and how later, the Nazi and the strange box disappeared, and all that was left was a picture of the Doctor in the cell.
Characters
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.
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 later
