Have You Seen This Man? (short story)

Have You Seen This Man? was a segmented short story, a collection of 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 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, nothing in Have You Seen This Man? breaks any of this Wiki's 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 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.

Charm
charm claims that Doctor Who is her friend.

Dazza P
Dazza P 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.

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.

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 pedestald where the busts were normally kept.

Steve Hrad
Steve Hrad had met the Doctor a few days prior in a park, while Steve was listening to a Britney Spears CD on his boombox, and the Doctor told him "when you're long gone, that song will live on."

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.

Blue
blue reminisces that when he was hiking in Tibet, he saw a man in a leather jacket talking to several buddhist monks — and it wasn't the high altitude making him giddy. blue later saw the same man outside a monastry outside Lhasa, where the Doctor told him "keep on going, you will see."

Thomas
Thomas remembers that he met the Doctor at a roller-disco in 1973, and he doesn't think the Doctor has aged a day.

Sarah Jane Smith
Sarah Jane Smith asks if anyone sees the Doctor in London, they should contact her as she wants to interview the him, as she is currently doing a story on him.

Peter D
Peter D tells anybody reading that if they check the footage of Royal Wedding, the Doctor can be seen in the background near an OB van, as well as also being visible in footage taken a hundred miles away in Aintree, less than an hour later, and that he was also visible in footage taken a day prior at a funeral at St Peter's.

Mr. Yates
A 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".

Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent recounts that the Doctor had laid down in front of a bulldozer outside of his home.

The Cartoonist
The Cartoonist writes about how he had seen the Doctor jump out of a Routemaster bus on Tottenham Court Road in London, at the corner of New Oxford Street — but Routemaster no longer operated on that road.

Perry Winkle
Perry Winkle used to go to school with a boy in Salford who looked like the Doctor, about thirty years prior.

Sam Ford
Sam Ford saw the Doctor in a library in Stafford reading a book by Charles Dickens.

Alex
Alex had met the Doctor at the Star Trek-Science Exhibition at the Science Museum, and the Doctor was amused by the props of a possible future.

Njsjedi
Njsjedi was at a tea shop when they saw the Doctor, who asked for "two lumps" in his tea, then he asked for two sugars.

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 accuarate books were.

Barry H
barry h saw the Doctor shopping in a heart foundation charity shop when the Doctor offered to donate one of his two heart to them.

Daniel Roberts
Daniel Roberts disagrees that the Doctor can still be alive in the 21st century — he knows of "photographic evidence of him taking part in King George VI['s] coronation in 1936", which would make the Doctor over a hundred years old.

Samuel Wilkinson
Samuel Wilkinson saw the Doctor on the tube reading a copy of A Brief History of Time, laughing heartily.

SkipN
SkipN recounts seeing the Doctor at a Boston Red Sox game in 1998, when the Doctor told him to be patient, to wait until 2004.

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.

Miles Smith
Miles Smith saw the Doctor in an antique shop on Church Street, North London, trying to sell an old chess set.

Matneee
see the entry below

Characters
(In order of appearance)

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, AUDIO: Battle Scars)
 * The Doctor was present in 1985, in an adventure involving Halley's Comet. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen, PROSE: Attack of the Cybermen, et al.)
 * The Doctor and Susan departed from 76 Totter's Lane, seemingly disappearing. (TV: "An Unearthly Child")
 * 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.)
 * The Doctor was previously implicated in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln twice. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell, Assassin in the Limelight)
 * Britney Spears's music at least survives until the year five billion. (TV: The End of the World)
 * 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, AUDIO: The Stuff of Nightmares 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 has two hearts. (TV: Spearhead from Space, et al.)
 * The Doctor owns a copy of A Brief History of Time. (PROSE: Fear of the Dark, AUDIO: Zagreus)
 * 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)