For the Man Who Has Everything (short story)

For the Man Who Has Everything was the third short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas. It was written by Dan Abnett. It featured the Eighth Doctor.

Summary
In Whitehall on Christmas Eve, 1966, private secretary Anne Caisson is busy sorting through Christmas cards and gifts sent to her boss, Clive Reeves, the Home Secretary. She is interrupted by a visit from a man from U.N.I.T. called the Doctor, who is desperately looking for a small glass ornament. Realising that it was an item she mistakenly took for an inappropriate gift from Sir Clive – himself a happily married man – Anne explains that she had slipped into her boss’ briefcase. As she drives the Doctor out to Sir Clive’s country house, he explains that the artefact is an extraterrestrial device by sent a benign alien race as a gift to humanity; the orb has the ability to grant wishes – and therefore far too powerful for mankind to possess. Arriving at Sir Clive’s, the Doctor enjoys a glass of wine with the Home Secretary, while Anne retrieves the device; bidding goodbye to Sir Clive, Anne then takes the Doctor back to her flat, where he shares the festivities by putting up Christmas decorations, playing Monopoly and enjoying the contents of the Christmas hamper given to Anne by her boss.

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Anne Caisson
 * Sir Clive Reeves

Continuity
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