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Short Change

Short Change (Also written as ShortChange) was a consumer affairs programme for children, broadcast on BBC One (as part of CBBC and later also the CBBC Channel.

It was essentially a version of the prime-time show Watchdog except that it was aimed at children. The show was first aired on 20 February 1994. It had 13 series; the last episode broadcast on 9 July 2005.

The series did a lot of customer tests where they buy multiple version of a products eg a CD player, and allow a group of children to test each model and evaluate which was best.

Price Busters[]

Short Change invited you to go on a nationwide shopping spree. Have you had the wind taken out of you by the price of a tin of baked beans in your local corner shop or been struck dumb by the cost of ten pin bowling down your nearest alley? Well that's what we wanted to hear about on Price Busters. We asked you to search the length and breadth of the country to tell us about horrendous price-hikes and delicious discounts.

The Price Busting Mission which Chris Jarvis set and thousands of you chose to accept was to ring in with the cost of the standard pack of those wordy 'Love Hearts' sweets. Did they give you the sweet message you wanted to hear?

On each programme, viewers were challenged to find the cheapest and most expensive prices for a given product, across the country. Two winners each week (one finding each extreme price) would win a boom-box stereo.

Presenters[]

  • Zoë Ball (1994–1995)
  • Andi Peters (1996)
  • Tim Vincent (1997–1999)
  • Ortis Deley (1999–2005)
  • Rhodri Owen (2000–2005)
  • Angellica Bell (2001–2004)
  • Thalia Pellegrini (2005)

External Links[]

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