Have You Seen This Man? (short story)

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You may be looking for Have You Seen...?, the poem from Now We Are Six Hundred.

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.

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

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.

Steven Hudson

Steven Hudson shares his experience with the Doctor, when Steven spotted the Doctor, 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."

Matthew

Matthew recounts his brush with the Doctor, when the Doctor corrected Matthew's tour guide on a school trip to Chestow castle.

Helva Soprano

Helva Soprano 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.

Trevor French

Trevor French 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.

Mrs. Smith

Mrs. Smith remembered that she had met an older, white haired gentlemen in 1963 who went by the name of "the Doctor", with his 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.

Characters

(In order of appearance)

Referenced only

References


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


External links

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