Looks like it was mainly because there was already a lot of high-quality programming for children in the UK at that time, and that too many Americanisms would b

Looks like it was mainly because there was already a lot of high-quality programming for children in the UK at that time, and that too many Americanisms would be confusing for kids (my wife watched it in the UK and grew up thinking the last letter of the alphabet was pronounced "zee" for a long time).