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Is there an equivalent of a Bacon number for Doctor Who? e.g, Actor X was never in any version of Doctor Who, but he was in a film with Actor Y, who was in a film with Actor Z who played a Companion, so X has a Doctor Who number of 2. You get the idea, I'm sure.

It occurs to me that with last night's episode most of Hollywood probably now has a Doctor Who number of 2 or 3, if not less... Sigeurney Weaver, for example, now has a Doctor Who number of 1.

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major-clanger.livejournal.com

When you look at the list of guest stars in Who I'd doubt there are many actors of any level of renown who get past 1.

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ffutures.livejournal.com

Fair point - maybe it should be narrowed down to "actors who have played the Doctor" as zero, other roles in Dr. Who as 1, and so forth.

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beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com

Yeah, John Hurt isn't exactly the first big name they've had on the show - between the likes of John Cleese, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Dalton, Carey Mulligan, Ian McKellen, etc there's hardly a single actor you can't link to Doctor Who pretty easily.

Still, now we've had Claudius play (a pitiable version of) The Master and Caligula play (a dark version of) The Doctor. There's a nice symmetry to that.

ETA: Oh, and Sigourney Weaver already had a 1; she was in Paul with Simon Pegg.

Edited Date: 2013-05-19 01:50 pm (UTC)

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lonemagpie.livejournal.com

Weaver has had a Doctor number of 1 since at least 1988 (Ricco Ross, the Ringmaster in Greatest Show, and Tip Tipping, the corporal in Remembrance of the Daleks, were both Colonial Marines in Aliens)