Science FICTION/

DOUBLE feature

Usherette:

Michael Rennie was ill The Day the Earth Stood Still

But he told us where we stand.

And Flash Gordon was there In silver underwear,

Claude Rains was the Invisible Man.

Then something went wrong

For Fay Wray and King Kong;

They got caught in a celluloid jam.

Then at a deadly pace

It Came From... Outer Space.

And this is how the message ran:

Chorus:

Science fiction,

double feature

Doctor X

will build a creature.

See androids fighting

Brad and Janet

Anne Francis stars in

Forbidden Planet

Wo Oh Oh Oh Oh

At the late night,

double feature,

picture show.

Usherette:

I knew Leo G. Carrol

Was over a barrel

When Tarantula took to the hills.

And I really got hot

When I saw Jeanette Scott

Fight a triffid that spits poison and kills.

Dana Andrews said Prunes

Gave him the runes

And passing them used lots of skills

But When Worlds Collide,

Said George Powell to his bride,

"I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills,"

Like a...

Chorus:

Science fiction,

double feature

Doctor X

will build a creature.

See androids fighting

Brad and Janet

Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet

Wo Oh Oh Oh Oh

At the late night,

double feature,

picture show.

I wanna go

Oh Oh Oh

To the late night double feature picture show,

By RKO,

Oh Oh Oh

To the late night double feature picture show,

In the back row,

Oh Oh Oh

To the late night, double feature, picture show!

Richard O' Brian

Richard Timothy Smith, better known under his stage name Richard O'Brien, is an English writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer. He is perhaps best known for writing the cult musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

He was born in 1942 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. In 1951, O'Brien emigrated with his family to, New Zealand, where his father had purchased a sheep farm. After developing a keen interest in comic books and horror films, he returned to England in 1964. Upon launching his acting career he changed his name to O'Brien, as there was already an actor named Richard Smith.

After taking a few Method acting classes, O'Brien joined several stage productions as an actor. In 1970 he went into the touring production of Hair for nine months. May 1972 saw the birth of his son Linus by Kimi, and that summer he met director Jim Sharman who cast him as an Apostle in Jesus Christ Superstar. Sharman then help make O'Brien's draft of a gothic-themed, schlock-horror comic-book fantasy romp into a reality.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened at the Theatre Upstairs in June 1973. Within weeks it had become the cult show to see in London theatre.Richard O'Brien continued writing musicals, including: T.Zee (1976), Disaster (1978), The Stripper (1982), and Top People (1984). In 1995 O'Brien wrote his Disgracefully Yours. O'Brien became a serial bit-part actor in cult films and has appeared in movies such as Jubilee (1977), Flash Gordon (1980), Dark City (1998), Ever After (1998) and Dungeons & Dragons (2000).