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Find the 3 things that don’t belong in 1970.
TipOpen one step at a time. The answer always asks twice, so nothing gets spoiled by accident.
1NudgeOpen
Cross off the decoys first. These look modern but were fine in 1970: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969), Sesame Street (1969) and Star Trek (1966).
2CloserOpen
One intruder is the Muppet Show: series premiered 5 Sep 1976.
Still to find: a yellow family and late-night comedy.
3AnswerAsks twice
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- The Muppet Show · 1976
- The Simpsons · 1989
- Saturday Night Live · 1975
★Solved it? The story behind the datesContains the answers
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Everything in the document on one timeline. Yellow dots arrived too late.
- 1966Star TrekFine
Premiered 8 Sep 1966; in reruns by 1970.Source: Wikipedia - 1969Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!Fine
Premiered 13 Sep 1969.Source: Wikipedia - 1969Sesame StreetFine
Premiered 10 Nov 1969.Source: UPI - 1970 · the document is dated here
- 1975Saturday Night LiveNot yet
Premiered 11 Oct 1975.Source: Smithsonian Magazine - 1976The Muppet ShowNot yet
Series premiered 5 Sep 1976.Source: Britannica - 1989The SimpsonsNot yet
Series premiered 17 Dec 1989.Source: Britannica
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