- Paul Shannon was the popular host of a children's show in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Among other features of his show, he highlighted the old Three Stooges shorts, helping to re-popularize the Stooges. The Stooges rewarded him by giving him a role in the movie The Outlaws Is Coming (Wild Bill Hickock).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Dennis Murphy <dpcb@sgi.net>
- The title of his Pittsburgh, Pa. based comedy/variety kids TV show was "Adventuretime". On that show, Shannon played many comedic characters and performed magic tricks (as his silent magician character: "The Great Mysto"), worked with a loudmouth puppet character known as "Lippy The Leprechan". Performed bizarre pantomime comedy skits as "Nosmo King" (a wild looking hippie that sported a top coat, dark glasses, a fedora hat, gloves and a beard), engaged his studio audiences and his viewers in games, stories, craft making hobbies, informational segments and interviews with guest performers, personalities and with kids in the studio audience. Beginning at "The Holiday House Hotel and Nightclub" in Monroeville, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Pittsburgh), "Adventuretime" was patterned after WABD/WNEW/WNYW TV Ch. 5 NYC's "Wonderama".
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