On View : Hallowed Be These Horrors : ‘ROCKY HORROR’ COMPLETES ANOTHER TIME WARP WITH ITS FIRST TV AIRING

Get out your garter belts and spiked heels! The most famous midnight cult movie goes prime time this Halloween. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is coming to the small screen--not once but twice this week--thanks to Fox Broadcasting.

“Rocky Horror” bombed at the box office when it was released in 1975. But within a year it became a hit on the midnight movie circuit. Fans continue to dress up as their favorite cast member, talk back to the screen and throw rice, toast and confetti on cue. Chanting choice lines of dialogue in unison is mandatory behavior.

The rock musical finds squeaky-clean Brad (Barry Bostwick) and his fiancee Janet (Susan Sarandon) stranded in an old mansion on a dark and stormy night. Once inside, they are introduced to the kinky world of Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite from the planet Transexual.

OTHER TV TRICKS AND TREATS

Numerous series will be presenting Halloween-themed episodes this week. In fact, on Halloween night, Fox will present the four “Tree House of Horror” installments of “The Simpsons.” Below are selected spooky highlights:

ABC

“Double, Double Toil and Trouble” finds popular “Full House” regulars Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen playing twins who trick their aunt (Cloris Leachman), a heartless witch, (Saturday at 8 p.m.).

A&E;

“Biography” profiles the legendary horror-film actor Vincent Price (Saturday at 9 a.m.); Price stars in William Castle’s 1959 chiller “The House on Haunted Hill,” (Saturday at 5 and 9 p.m.)

AMC

“Super” Halloween Weekend kicks off Friday at midnight with all 30 chapters of the “Superman” and “Atom Man Vs. Superman” serials. Beginning Saturday at midnight, AMC airs such chillers as “Island of Lost Souls” and “I Walk With a Zombie.”

COMEDY CENTRAL

“Boo! Comedy Central” features a comedy of horrors marathon including “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,” “Polyster” and “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die,” (next Sunday at 10 a.m.)

DISCOVERY CHANNEL

“Ghosts, Ghouls and Goblins” describes this five-hour exploration of the mysterious and unexplained, (next Sunday at 7 p.m.).

THE DISNEY CHANNEL

Disney devotes Saturday and next Sunday to things that go bump in the night. Highlights include the world premiere of “The Adventures in Wonderland” special, “A Wonderland Howl-oween” (next Sunday at 4:30 p.m.) and three episodes of the acclaimed 1991-92 NBC series, “Eerie, Indiana,” (Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and next Sunday at 1 p.m.).

MTV

“MTV’s Halloween House Party” includes specials, scary videos and much, much more. (Saturday from 1-8 p.m. and next Sunday from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and 3-8 p.m.)

NICKELODEON

“Nick or Treat” features “Doug’s Halloween Adventure,” “Rugrats Halloween Show,” “Marc Summer’s Mystery Magical Tour” and “spooky” episodes of the regular SNICK lineup. (Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m.) From 10 p.m. to midnight, “Very Very Nick at Nite” presents “Very Very Spooky,” four scary episodes of TV Land shows.

TBS

“The Halloween Tree” (Saturday at 1:35 p.m. and Saturday and next Sunday at 3 p.m. on KCAL) is a new animated special penned by Ray Bradbury about four boys sent on a mythical journey through time and around the world to save the life of a friend; “National Geographic Explorer” (next Sunday at 6 p.m.) presents “Nature’s Nightmares,” a two-hour festival of fright that examines such creepy things as the world of black widow spiders.

TNT

“Spook Fest ‘93!” begins Monday at 9 a.m. with a double-feature festival.

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” airs Monday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 11 p.m. on Fox.

In honor of the TV debut of “Rocky Horror,” here’s a “Rocky Horror” trivia quiz:

1. “Rocky Horror Picture Show” was adapted from the hit British stage musical, “The Rocky Horror Show.” What was the original name of the stage musical?

2. Which cast member wrote “Rocky Horror”? What is his character in the movie?

3. The planet Transexual is located in what galaxy?

4. Name the pop star--he has a current hit album-- who is in the movie.

5. What Greenwich Village theater held the first midnight screenings of “Rocky Horror”?

6. Name the semi-sequel of “Rocky Horror.”

7. Name the hit song from “Rocky Horror.”

8. Who played the character of Rocky?

9. Who directed the film?

10. What is the film’s rating?

Answers:

1. “They Came From Denton High”

2. Richard O’Brien. Riff Raff.

3. Transylvania

4. Meat Loaf

5. The Waverly

6. “Shock Treatment”

7. The Time Warp

8. Peter Hinwood

9. Jim Sharman

10. R

If the number of your correct answers is:

8-10: You spend midnights at the movies.

5-7: You love rice.

1-4: You’re in bed by 9 p.m.