Have You Seen This Man? (short story)

Have You Seen This Man? was a story exclusively 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 story depicted the Doctor's role in Earth's history, set before and after the events of Rose, through dozens of pieces of spread across three webpages, written both by the BBC and the real world visitors of the Who is Doctor Who? tie-in website.

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 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

Steve Wood
Steve Wood 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.

Dr Stanley Sidebottom
Dr Stanley Sidebottom saw that the main effigy of Ahura Mazda in a frieze on an anceint 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.

Andrew
Andrew had seen the Doctor in a local arcade in the 1980s, playing Pac Man and Galaga.

Nigel Wright
nigel wright says that the Doctor can been seen in the background of various photographs of the Manhattan Project.

John Lord
John Lord saw the Doctor in a curry house in Bradford a couple of weeks prior, and he ordered a Chicken Tikka Masala.

Lizzie
Lizzie recounts that she had seen the Doctor near a lift in Debenhams, Sheffield, asking for directions to the Winter Gardens, but after she and someone else turned away to figure out the best route, when they turned, the Doctor had gone.

Winnie Malcolm Smith
Winnie Malcolm Smith recalls that outside Fettes College in 1972, she had 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".

Carol
carol remembers a statue of the a miner on the Dover sea front, and wonders who it is based on.

Sarah T
Sarah T saw the Doctor at Waterloo Station reading the dictionary.

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.

Matneee
Matneee had been shown a photo by his great grandfather of the Doctor in Sarajevo, 1914, shouting something about ducks.

Samuel Preston
Samuel Preston tells of how he had shown his grandfather the website and how he had later found his grandfather's diary from WWII; inside, his grandfather had written about how he had shot the Doctor in Auschwitz in 1944 following the defeat of Germany, as he believed the Doctor to have been "one of the few people who [had seen] everything", as had been wearing what his grandfather had believed was a Nazi uniform. His grandfather had locked the Doctor in a cell and taken a picture of him as evidence, as well as discovering a weird box in a field not long after. Later, both the Doctor and the box disappeared.

Danu
Danu met the Doctor in The Blue Angel, in Islington, on 6 January 1995, and the Doctor was fascinated by Danu's friend's tattoos.

Richard Kilpatrick
It was in 1987 at a concert when Richard Kilpatrick saw the Doctor. The Doctor had been playing the guitar in a session band for one of Marillion's support acts, acting worriedly. Shortly thereafter, Fish left the band.

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 tomorrow.

Terence Chua
Terence Chua 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, seemingly the Ninth Doctor was dressed in a Union Army captain's uniform next to a converted field hospital, and in another, the Doctor wore a Confederate colonel's uniform, with a bandaged arm, in a group of prisoners.

Richard J. Kingston
Richard J. Kingston remembers vividly that, in the summer of 1962, the Doctor was admitted as a patient at a psychiatric institution. The Doctor, who Richard thought was delusional, often caused unrest among the other patients, and also 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. 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".

John Razi
John Razi had seen the Doctor working as a security guard while he worked at a secretive job in London.

Kevin Jarvis
Kevin Jarvis had seen the Doctor in two photographs taken of Kevin's village in 1946 next to a war memorial.

Ted Prendergast
Ted Prendergast had seen the Doctor in the North East in the 1990s pretending to be a photo-journalist.

Bila
The day prior, Bila had seen the Doctor's face in her toast, but ate it out of hunger before taking a picture.

Dwayne Pipe
It had been in a Smiths when Dwayne Pipe saw the Doctor laughing whilst reading a copy of The Da Vinci Code.

Benn Stephens
Benn Stephens 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.

Katharine
Katharine met the Doctor while she was on her PGCE course in Walsall, helping her with human anatomy before vanishing.

Adrian J Andrews
Recently, Adrian J Andrews's dog had fallen 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, and within an hour, the Doctor appeared at Adrian's door, claiming to be a botanist, and the Doctor gave Adrian a balm to rub into the dog's growths that healed them up quickly.

Johnny
Johnny writes that he has just seen the Doctor run past his house.

Gerard Shannon
When Gerard Shannon 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!"

Dinah May
Dinah May remembers how she had seen the Doctor several years prior dumping some old clothes at a local tip, and when Dinah asked him about it, he told her that he was just having a clear out.

Ian
On 26 November 2004, the Doctor gave Ian and his wife a silver cross while Ian helped his wife into Ian's car, telling them their daughter will need it the future; on 27 November, their daughter, bella, was born, and Ian gave her the cross, feeling confident that she'll need it.

Laura McCabe
Carrick Castle in Northern Ireland was visited by eleven year old Laura McCabe, who saw the Doctor inspecting military archives and suits of metal armour, telling her that it was "much safer" than plastic.

Woodie
When visiting the ruins of Pompeii, Woodie was told by the Doctor that he tried to warn them.

Julie B
Julie B knows of a statue in the Egyptian museum from 2500BC that "has a striking resemblance to [the Doctor]".

Mark B
Mark B saw the Doctor on holiday in Tunisia, asking Mike if he was interested in time shares.

Dan Nycia
Dan Nycia 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."

Domonic Hyde
domonic hyde 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. While domonic heeded the Doctor's advice, domonic "saw some very strange lights in the sky".

Bugs Nixon
Bugs Nixon recollects that he saw the Doctor in Asda in 1979, buying up Star Wars action figures.

Mississippi Man
mississippi man remembers that in the mid-1940s, he was in a blues blues bar in Mississippi, the Doctor arrived at the bar and played a Jimi Hendrix song on stage, years before the song was released. It was only in 1969 mississippi man discovered this.

Matt Bull
When Matt Bull was eight, he saw the Doctor, out of tune, singing opera to a bush in Matt's local park.

Gavin
Gavin was told by his grandfather that his great grandfather's cuckoo clock was repaired by the Doctor.

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.

Wake U. Sooka
Wake U. Sooka 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; Wake continued to reel it in, while it hissed at him, but the Doctor quickly appeared and cut the line with seemingly a knife, sending the creature back into the stream, and 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, and the Doctor left.

Marty McFly
Marty McFly claims to know the Doctor, after the Doctor stole his DeLorean.

Charlie Pocket
Charlie Pocket 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.

Matneee
see the entry above

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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".

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

Charm
charm claims that Doctor Who is her friend.

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.

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.

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.

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

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."

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
(In order of appearance, oldest first)

Removed entries
As the BBC moderated the submissions on the site, some were deleted due to content.
 * Samuel Preston's entry told the story of how his grandfather had shot the Doctor in Auschwitz in 1944 following the defeat of Germany, as the Doctor, who had been "one of the few people who [had seen] everything", had been wearing a Nazi uniform (although it should be noted that the Doctor's leather jacket was German in origin), and had evidently made no attempt to signify that he wasn't a Nazi. Thus, the reason of this entry's removal should be self-explanitory.

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 retrieves a "large silver metal ball" from the London Underground. (TV: The Web of Fear, et al.)
 * The Mona Lisa on display in the Louvre is a copy. (TV: City of Death, AUDIO: Dust Breeding, GAME: Old Rope)
 * The Doctor also visited Brighton in his fourth (AUDIO: Gallery of Ghouls, TV: The Leisure Hive) and sixth incarnations. (AUDIO: Pier Pressure)
 * 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 was present for the destruction of Big Ben. (TV: Aliens of London)
 * 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 Third Doctor was also involved with the Manhattan Project. (PROSE: Come Friendly Bombs...)
 * The Da Vinci Code reappears in PROSE: Just a Minute... and The Blood Cell.
 * The Second Doctor owned a flute, (TV: The Power of the Daleks, et al.) the Third Doctor owned multiple velvet jackets, (TV: Spearhead from Space, et al.) and the Fourth Doctor owned several scarves. (TV: Robot, PROSE: Into the Silent Land, et al.) The Fifth Doctor also enjoyed cricket. (AUDIO: Phantasmagoria)
 * Woodie recollects a visit to Pompeii, mentioning that he "tried to warn them." (AUDIO: The Fires of Vulcan)
 * The First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara had previously been to Tunisia in 814 BC. (AUDIO: The Phoenicians)
 * Another Ninth Doctor also remarked on his continued arrivals at quarries. (TV: The Curse of Fatal Death)
 * The Tenth Doctor piloting The Outcome, was by one account, the cause of the lights above Rendlesham Forest. (AUDIO: Backtrack)
 * The DeLorean would later be present at San Diego Comic-Con in the 2010s. (COMIC: Selfie)
 * The Seventh Doctor would also went to Sarajevo in 1995. (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy)
 * 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 Doctor drives Bessie. (TV: Terror of the Autons, et al.)
 * The Doctor owns a copy of A Brief History of Time. (PROSE: Fear of the Dark, AUDIO: Zagreus)
 * The Doctor has two hearts. (TV: Spearhead from Space, et al.)
 * Star Trek is a television series. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles, The Secret in Vault 13, et al.)
 * The Sixth Doctor also visited Salford two times. (AUDIO: The Vanity Box, The Condemned)
 * Arthur Dent is an acquaintance with the Doctor. (TV: The Christmas Invasion, PROSE: The Christmas Invasion)
 * Mr Yates knows the Doctor. (TV: Terror of the Autons, AUDIO: The Stuff of Nightmares et al.)
 * 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.)
 * Britney Spears's music at least survives until the year five billion. (TV: The End of the World)
 * The Doctor was previously implicated in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln twice. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell, Assassin in the Limelight)
 * The Eighth Doctor was aboard the R101 when it crashed. (AUDIO: Storm Warning, Neverland, et al.)
 * The Doctor worked for UNIT in several incarnations. (TV: Spearhead from Space, Robot, et al.)
 * The Doctor and Susan departed from 76 Totter's Lane, seemingly disappearing. (TV: "An Unearthly Child")
 * 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.)
 * Steven Hudson notes that there was a building complex in Totter's Lane in around 2003. In 2021, Totter's Lane was mostly office blocks. (AUDIO: The Harvest)