Bacon Numbers for Doctor Who
Startlingly Useless Information:
Bacon Numbers of the Doctors
by Heather Keesecker
(heathk3@juno.com)
Contents:
1) What is a Bacon Number?
2) Version History
3) The Official Doctors:
a) Hartnell
b) Troughton
c) Pertwee
d) Tom Baker
e) Davison
f) Colin Baker
g) McCoy
h) McGann
4) The Other Doctors:
a) Cushing
b) Hurndall
5) Questions Left as an Exercise for the Student
6) *UPDATES* - New Doctors
1) What is a Bacon Number?
From the "About" page at the Oracle of Bacon at Virginia
(http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~bct7m/bacon.html), which was used
to collect the information for this post:
"The object of the game is to start with any actor or actress
who has been in a movie and connect them to Kevin Bacon in the
smallest number of links possible. Two people are linked if
they've been in a movie together. We do not consider links
through television shows, made-for-TV movies, writers, producers,
directors, etc."
The Oracle of Bacon uses the Internet Movie Database at
http://us.imdb.com to automate this game.
2) Version History
9/4/98, two minutes after the last update: The maintainer realizes
that she's the only one still playing the Seven Degrees to Kevin Bacon
game. She cringes.
9/4/98: Updated entries for Davison, Colin Baker, and McCoy. Added
entries for Michael Jayston (The Valeyard) and Edmond Warwick
(Hartnell's double in The Chase). Kept silly joke at the end about
lemons and protractors, even though she doesn't have the dog
anymore. (She hasn't been able to get rid of the house or
the husband, though. :-) )
5/14/97: First release. Yippee.
3)The Official Doctors:
a) William Hartnell, the First Doctor
William Hartnell was in Murder Will Out (1939) with Roddy
McDowall
Roddy McDowall was in The Big Picture (1989) with Kevin Bacon
Hartnell's Bacon Number: Two
b) Patrick Troughton, the Second Doctor
Patrick Troughton was in Hamlet (1949) with Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier was in The Betsy (1978) with Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones was in JFK (1991) with Kevin Bacon
Troughton's Bacon Number: Three
c) Jon Pertwee, the Third Doctor
Jon Pertwee was in Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961) with Joe
Don Baker
Joe Don Baker was in Criminal Law (1989) with Kevin Bacon
Pertwee's Bacon Number: Two
d) Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor (REVISED 2005)
Tom Baker was in Dungeons & Dragons (2000) with Bruce Payne
Olivier
Bruce Payne was in Pyrates (1991) with Kevin Bacon
Tom Baker's Bacon Number: Two
e) Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor
Peter Davison was in Parting Shots (1998) with John Cleese
John Cleese was in The Big Picture (1989) with Kevin Bacon
Davison's Bacon Number: Two
f) Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor
Colin Baker was in The Harpist (1997) with Christien Anholt
Christien Anholt was in The Power of One (1992) with
Tracy Brooks Swope
Tracy Brooks Swope was in The Big Picture (1989) with Kevin
Bacon
Colin Baker's Bacon Number: Three
g) Sylvester McCoy, the Seventh Doctor
Sylvester McCoy was in The Secret Policeman's Ball (1981) with
John Cleese
John Cleese was in The Big Picture (1989) with Kevin Bacon
McCoy's Bacon Number: Two
h) Paul McGann, the Eighth Doctor
Paul McGann was in The Three Musketeers (1993) with Kiefer
Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland was in Flatliners (1990) with Kevin Bacon
McGann's Bacon Number: Two
4) The Other Doctors (Stage and Fan Doctors omitted)
a) Peter Cushing, played Dr. Who in the movie versions
of The Daleks and The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Peter Cushing was in Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
with Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland was in National Lampoon's Animal House
(1978) with Kevin Bacon
Cushing's Bacon Number: Two
b) Richard Hurndall, played the First Doctor in The Five Doctors
Richard Hurndall was in Royal Flash (1975) with Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins was in Balto (1995) with Kevin Bacon
Hurndall's Bacon Number: Two
c) Michael Jayston, played the Valeyard in Trial of a Timelord, who
may or may not have been a future incarnation of the Doctor
(personally, I think he was trying to blah blah blah)
Michael Jayston was in Zulu Dawn (1979) with Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins was in Balto (1995) with Kevin Bacon
Jayston's Bacon Number: Two
d) Edmond Warwick, played the First Doctor's robot double in
The Chase (REVISED 2005)
Edmond Warwick was in The Stud (1978) with Mark Burns
Mark Burns was in The Surrogate (1984) with Jackie Burroughs
Jackie Burroughs was in Cavedweller (2004) with Kevin Bacon
Warwick's Bacon Number: Three
5) Questions Left as an Exercise for the Reader
a) (Rhetorical Question) Why do so many Doctors link through
Olivier? And why, by the Holy Underwear of Rassilon, do
all those Doctor-Olivier-Bacon links go through that
godawful film The Betsy? (shudders)
b) Using three lemons, a protractor, and all the magazines you
have in your bathroom, try to figure out how a woman with a
husband, a dog, and a house that magically messes itself
back up the minute she cleans it found the time to write
this post. Use both sides of the paper, show your work, and
don't bother calling her a sad fangirl with no life -- she
knows that already. :-)
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6) UPDATES - New Doctors - Added 2005
a) Christopher Eccleston - The Ninth Doctor
Christopher Eccleston was in eXistenZ (1999) with Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Jason Leigh was in In the Cut (2003) wiht Kevin Bacon
Christopher Eccleston's Bacon Number: two
b) David Tennant - The Tenth Doctor
David Tennant will be in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
with Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman was in Murder in the First (1995) with Kevin Bacon
David Tennant's Bacon Number: 2