Short Change is a UK consumer affairs programme for children, broadcast on BBC One and later on CBBC. It ran for 13 series from 1994 to 2005.
Episode guide Series Episodes Duration Presenter(s) 1 6 20 February 1994 – 27 March 1994 Zoe Ball 2 19 February 1995 – 26 March 1995 3 7 18 February 1996 – 31 March 1996 Andi Peters Series 3 compilation 1 5 January 1997 4 8 9 February 1997 – 30 March 1997 Tim Vincent Fan Clubs Special 1 9 November 1997 5 6 11 January 1998 – 15 February 1998 6 12 7 January 1999 – 25 March 1999 Tim Vincent & Ortis Deley 7 6 January 2000 – 23 March 2000 Ortis Deley, Rhodri Owen & Alex Leam 8 4 January 2001 – 22 March 2001 Ortis Deley, Rhodri Owen & Angellica Bell 9 14 29 March 2001 – 28 June 2001 10 13 18 April 2002 – 11 July 2002 11 24 April 2003 – 17 July 2003 12 15 8 April 2004 – 15 July 2004 Fat Nation Challenge – The Big Challenge 18 9 September 2004 – 7 November 2004 Matt Allwright 13 15 5 April 2005 – 12 July 2005 Ortis Deley, Rhodri Owen & Thalia Pellegrini
PriceBusters competition On each programme, viewers were challenged to find the cheapest and most expensive prices for a given product throughout the country: two winners each week (one finding each extreme price) would win a boom-box stereo. Bill Bennett won the competition two weeks running, by finding the most expensive prices for the given products, and including Tesco's grocery delivery charge of £5. This made the cost of a Müller Rice around £5.40, much more expensive than prices found by any other entrant. Following the two consecutive wins, the rules were changed to omit delivery charges from the total cost for a particular product.
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See also Street Cents, a CBC programme influenced by Short Change Watchdog (TV programme)