Paul Shannon

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Paul Shannon was a veteran Pittsburgh radio announcer in the days before commercial television. He worked for years at KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and hosted his own show as the "Dream Weaver," reading romantic poetry to electric organ accompaniment.

After moving to WTAE TV, he became a Pittsburgh legend, particularly to the Baby Boom generation, as host of a popular children's television show Adventure Time. The show aired on WTAE channel 4 in the afternoons. The show showed Three Stooges shorts and the first color Anime, Kimba the White Lion in serialised form along with skits and songs. Shannon also played to a studio audience that attended each broadcast, usually scout troops and amused his audiences with his alter ego, "Nosmo King" (a play on "No Smoking" signs), and "The Magic Sword."

Shannon was one of several 1950s-1960s children's TV hosts to begin presenting reruns of the Three Stooges on Adventure Time, bringing the trio's 1930s and 1940s comedy shorts to an entirely new audience. It helped revive the Stooges as a viable act at a time when they were considered ancient history, leading to an entirely new career of stage and film appearances. In gratitude to Shannon and several other hosts, the Stooges featured them in cameo roles in their feature film. Shannon played played Wild Bill Hickock in the Three Stooges film, The Outlaws Is Coming. He died in Florida in 1990.