Six Degrees of (Colour) Separation (Overlay)

[Paul Monk]

Apologies for the title but I thought it would be fun to do a six degrees of separation type game with Doctor Who. Basically someone suggests a person unrelated to Doctor Who and the next poster has to connect them to Doctor Who in six moves or less. For example... Belinda Carlyle
Was in a band called The Go Go's.
Which shares the name with a band from the 1960's
Who wrote a song called I'm Gonna Spend Christmas With A Dalek.
The daleks are the enemy of the Doctor.

So first one, perhaps a toughie.

Simon Cowell

[WhiteCrowNZ]

I take it the aim of the game is to make it as amusing as possible?

1) Simon Cowell dressed up as a Wonder Dog to promote a single called "Ruff Mix"
2) Dogs are usually found relieving themselves on a lamp-post
3) The Blue Lamp was a British cime film which starred George Dixon
4) George Dixon was a Policeman, famous as Dixon of Dock Green

[There are mutliple ways you can finish it from this point ... frustrating]

5) Dixon of Dock Green was remade as a radio series starring David Tennant
6) David Tennant was the 10th Doctor

I think I might have got that wrong. But heck it got the ball rolling.

Maggie Thatcher

[Andrew Curnow]

for Best Thread Title ever.

So, Margaret Thatcher...

Margaret Thatcher's father was a greengrocer.
As was Alf Roberts in Coronation Street.
Who was played by Bryan Moseley.
Who was Malpha (or one of the delegates, anyway) in Mission to the Unknown.

There!! (Incidentally, Mrs T's maiden name was, I believe, Roberts.)

Next up, Whitney Houston.

[Lissa]

Whitney Houston was in a film called "Bodyguard"
Douglas Adams once worked as a bodyguard
Sean Pertwee starred in a TV series called "Bodyguards"
His co-star was Louise Lombard who was in House of Elliot
Which was created by Jean Marsh
Who was married to Jon Pertwee

Try Hulk Hogan

[WhiteCrowNZ]

You are just on a wrestling rant at the moment aren't you Lissa?

Hulk Hogan starred with Christopher Lloyd in Suburban Commando
Christopher Lloyd starred in the TV comedy Taxi
Also in Taxi was Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito starred as the Penguin in Batman
Frobisher was a shape changer whose prefered form was a penguin
Frobisher was a comic-strip companion to the 6th Doctor

[SiHart]

I think you need to nominate a candidate for the next round Mike.

Si xx

[Paul Monk]

Mike, you need to suggest someone new!

[SiHart]

Snap!

Si xx

[WhiteCrowNZ]

Bugger yes. Sorry guys.

George W Bush

[Anthony Williams]

George W. Bush was the predecessor as President of the USA of Barack Obama
Barack Obama "appeared" in the End of Time.

EASY!

Rick Wakeman.

[SiHart]

Rick Wakeman produced the album Return to The Centre of the Earth which was narrated by Patrick Stewart who was in the BBC Shakespeare version of Hamlet with Lalla Ward who played Romana in Doctor Who.

Rod Stewart.

Si xx

[Rob McCow]

Rod Stewart covered 'The First Cut Is The Deepest'
by Cat Stevens, who also wrote 'Father To Son'
which was covered by Boyzone.
One of the people in Boyzone was Stephen Gateley
Who appeared in a Big Finish Doctor Who with Paul McGann!

Dick Van Dyke.

[Andrew Curnow]

Dick Van Dyke was in Mary Poppins...
With Julie Andrews whose husband Blake Edwards directed...
The Pink Panther, starring...
Peter Sellers, who was also in The Mouse that Roared alongside...
William Hartnell!!

Cheryl Cole!

[Logo Polish]

Cheryl Cole is a judge on The X Factor
As was Sharon Osbourne
Who once interviewed Peter Davison on her chat show

David Frost.

[Lissa]

David Frost was played by Michael Sheen
Who also played Brian Howard Clough
Alongside Jim Broadbent
Who played the Doctor in Curse of Fatal Death
Which was written by Steven Moffat
Who now makes undeniably real Doctor Who.

Try the loveliest woman on television - Dr Alice Roberts

[Lissa]

Is no one going try Dr Alice?

How about-
Alice Roberts was in Time Team with Tony Robinson
Who was in Blackadder with Stephen Fry
Who was in A Bit of Fry and Laurie with Hugh Laurie
Who was in All or Nothing At All with Bob Monkhouse
Who was in Carry on Sergeant with William Hartnell
Who was in the Three Doctors with Jon Pertwee

What about David Mitchell?

[Captain Tancredi]

I feel slightly embarrassed to do this so quickly, but:

David Mitchell has been a panellist on QI
As has David Tennant
Who spent several years as the lead in, yes, Doctor Who.

Alice Roberts, meanwhile, has a doctorate from the University of Bristol
My BA is also from the University of Bristol
During which I crossed paths with somebody called Leo Martin
Whose father Dave co-wrote several Doctor Who stories.

I'm not sure whether I should have extra marks for making myself one of the degrees or feel geeky for using information gleaned from the alumni magazine.

So let's try man of the moment Carlos Tevez.

[Lissa]

Carlos Tevez was born on the 5th February
As was the legendary Frank Muir
Who wrote the radio series Take It From Here
Which co-starred June Whitfield
Who pinched David Tennant's bottom in a recent Christmas special

Columnist and restaurant critic Giles Coren.

[Jon Masters]

Giles Coren often appears as a critic on Celebrity Masterchef
Which was won in 2007 by Nadia Sawalha
Whose sister appeared in Ab Fab with Joanna Lumley
Who also starred in Sapphire & Steel
Whose revival by Big Finish stars David Warner
Who played the Doctor in the Unbound Audios Sympathy for the Devil and Masters of War

Try Andrew Lloyd Webber

[Captain Tancredi]

Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the musical of 'Phantom of the Opera', in which the lead has been played by Michael Crawford, who previously starred in 'Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em', in one episode of which Elisabeth Sladen played a greengrocer's assistant.

How about Nobel-prize winning Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot?

[Lissa]

TS Eliot wrote a play called "The Rock"
Dwayne Johnson is better known as "The Rock"
He was in "Get Smart" with Alan Arkin
Who was in "Inspector Clouseau" with Beryl Reid
Who was in Earthshock

How about Jeremy Clarkson?

[WhiteCrowNZ]

I've tried a couple of these to be entertaining .. but often get caught up in my own attempt to be clever ... but this one works.

Jeremy Clarkeson is most famous for Top Gear
Top Gear includes a feature "Stars in reasonably priced cars" which has a corner named after Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon played Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire ...

And either ...

The Goblet of Fire starred Roger Lloyd-Pack as Barty Crouch
Who played John Limic in Rise of the Cybermen

Or

The Goblet of Fire starred some bloke called David Tennant

Next:

Doctor Who meets Che Guvara

[Jon Masters]

Fought in the Cuban revolution alongside Castro
Assassination attempts on whom were authorised by Robert Kennedy
Who was a brother of John F Kennedy
Whose own assassination was fictionalised in Red Dwarf
Which also featured Dennis Lil as a Gunman of the Apocalypse
And who also starred in Image of the Fendahl

David Attenborough

[Lissa]

This involves a massive stroke of good fortune...

David Attenborough made the ground breaking series "Life on Earth"
The producer of which was Chris Parsons
Chris Parsons was a character in Shada.

George Best

[WhiteCrowNZ]

George Best was an album by the Wedding Present which included a track called Shatner
William Shatner appeared in an episode of The Man From UNCLE which also starred David McCallum

Non-Cannon
David McCallum was Steel to Joanna Lumleys Sapphire in Sapphire and Steel
Joanna Lumley played the first female Doctor in the Curse of Fatal Death

Cannon
David McCallum was in Sapphire and Steel, where David Collings was Silver
Silver he might have been, but David Collings was more interested in gold when as Vorus he faced the Revenge of the Cybermen

Johnny Wilkinson