The Water Margin was on when I was a kid, and after watching perhaps the first episode, I missed all the others, as I was sent to evening elocution lessons, together with the son of my parent's close friends. He was Scottish, so in retrospect I can perhaps understand his parents decision, even though I sometimes had difficulty understanding them, lol, and probably vice-versa, our family were very middle-class English, they were IIRC from Glasgow.
But in any case we kids were both absolutely livid at having to miss this essential schoolboy series, and would spend most of the following day trying to catch up with the story via playground gossip. I remember affecting an extremely exaggerated upper-class English accent in the hopes of putting our parents off the whole elocution project, but on the contrary they seemed delighted. lol.
The Water Margin really was essential watching at that time. Not sure that the subtleties of script changes would have made much difference to it’s audience though.
PS I also went to elocution lessons but managed to persuade my parents I was a lost cause after two lessons!
''Most eXtreme elimination Challenge''
https://wikiless.org/wiki/Most_Extreme_Elimination_Challenge
or the 1960s motion picture ''What's Up Tiger Lily?''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Roundabout