Having read your link I know now i'm not going loopy, it was on when I was a kid, remember the blind Doctor in it.
Yes I do! Also remember an Oz programme about children being taught at home over radio. Yes I do and also a programme called Ten Town renamed The Adventures of the Terrible Ten - unusual that there were so many Oz kids programmes on British TV in the 60s.
Can’t say I watch much union so I’m probably wrong, but this looks like a big case of a home bias officiating to help level the series up to make it interesting?