Kevin Bacon Game

The Kevin Bacon Game, also known as Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is based on a variation of the concept of the small world phenomenon and states that any actor can be linked, through their film roles, to actor Kevin Bacon.

The game requires a group of players to try to connect any film actor in history to Kevin Bacon as quickly as possible and in as few links as possible. The game was played across various college campuses as early as the early 1990s. Its name is a pun on the stage play Six Degrees of Separation. In 2007, Bacon himself started a charitable organization named SixDegrees.org.

Significance

The Kevin Bacon Game was played prolifically by certain members of the USS Khai Tam during the late ninties, espceically during road trips to various science fiction conventions. Certain members played so ferverently, that some other members would actually demand they stop.

Three of the usual culprits, Kevin McNulty, George Sumpter, and Scott Campbell even went so far as to create a Star Trek version of the game to run at a convention. Called, "Six Degrees of Trek," the game involved the panel of three linking actors shouted out by the audience to actors who had been regulars on a Trek series. Candy was passed out to anyone who could stump the panel.

Bacon Numbers

A person's "Bacon Number" is the number of steps it takes to link them to Kevin Bacon. With a slight expansion of the rules, the following Bacon Numbers can be computed for REDdimension Wiki Circle members:

• Pamela Harper has a Bacon Number of 3
  • Pamela met Brett Butler when she played the Improv in Tampa, FL
  • Brett Butler was in Firedog with Tom Arnold
  • Tom Arnold was in We Married Margo with Kevin Bacon

• Debbie McNulty has a Bacon Number of 3
  • Debbie's cousin is Ralph James
  • Ralph James was in Big Bad Mama with Tom Signorelli
  • Tom Signorelli was in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon

• Kevin McNulty has a Bacon Number of 3
  • Kevin met Kevin Peter Hall at a convention
  • Kevin Peter Hall was in Harry and the Hendersons with John Lithgow
  • John Lithgow was in Footloose with Kevin Bacon

• Jon Reddick has a Bacon Number of 3
  • Jon worked with Bobby Bowden for years on The Bobby Bowden Show in Tallahassee
  • Bobby Bowden was in Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story (TV) with Ed Marinaro
  • Ed Marinaro was in Queens Logic (1991) with Kevin Bacon

• Ro Reddick has a Bacon Number of 3
  • Chase Masterson was Ro's maid of honor
  • Chase Masterson was in Digital Man with Clint Howard
  • Clint Howard was in My Dog Skip with Kevin Bacon

• George Sumpter has a Bacon Number of 3
  • George once gave directions to the hotel pool to a drunken Robert O'Reilly at a convention
  • Robert O'Reilly was in Whore with Theresa Russell
  • Theresa Russell was in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon

• Colin Toenjes has a Bacon Number of 3
  • Colin worked in television at KGWN-TV with an news anchor named Jill Cumer, who was at one time an actress
  • Jill Cumer was in Savage Dawn (1985) with Mickey Jones
  • Mickey Jones was in Pyrates (1991) with Kevin Bacon