269: Richard O'Brien & Linus O'Brien & Strange Journey - The Story Of Rocky Horror!
Craig & Friends
Craig And Friends
4.9 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Richard & Linus O’Brien join me to talk Strange Journey - The Story Of Rocky Horror!
Directed by Linus, this is the definitive documentary on the origins, legacy and impact of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
We get deep into Richard’s life, his journey from gender dysphoria to gender euphoria, Tim Curry, Shock Treatment, sexual and social liberation, Richard Hartley, the tyranny of repression, his relationship with Linus, Hair, swinging London, Jean & Chrissie Shrimpton, T. Zee, Jim Sharman, mental health, Paul Nicholas, Rocky Horror Shows His Heels, Revenge Of The Old Queen, shadow casts, Jessica Harper at the commissary, Christopher Lee & the Captain Invincible situation, President Farley Flavors, Disaster! and much much more.
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| 0:44.1 | Welcome to Craig and Friends. |
| 0:47.9 | Welcome to Craig and France. |
| 0:51.6 | Welcome to Craig and France. |
| 1:01.0 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show turns 50 this year, and to commemorate it, a brilliant new documentary is out, and it is called Strange Journey. |
| 1:05.4 | Directed by Linus O'Brien, son of Rocky Horror creator Richard O'Brien. |
| 1:12.3 | It's a fabulous film that I can't recommend highly enough, and you'll hear me say that a few more times in the following chat with Linus O'Brien and Richard O'Brien. |
| 1:14.2 | Go to Rocky HorrorDoccom to see where it's playing now or we'll be playing in the future, |
| 1:19.2 | where you can get digital of it sometime later on. |
| 1:22.2 | Maybe, who knows, maybe an 8mm digest. |
| 1:24.7 | Whatever information that you and your friends need that you don't get in this |
| 1:28.0 | episode, you can find there. And now, on with the show. Good, good afternoon or morning or |
| 1:35.2 | nighttime or whatever it is wherever you are. It is everything, all of us. Everything all at once. |
| 1:40.9 | I think that's what that film was about. It was about living in New Zealand, I think, and then |
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