Scene: Shop Around
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companyBBC
started30th Sep
1971
last rpt24th Nov
1972
2 school years
episodes1
duration20 mins
subject
⚖️Citizenship
age rangeAge 13-16
languageenIn English
Shop Around is an episode of the BBC schools TV series Scene from the 1970s, covering citizenship for secondary school pupils.
A comic drama about wise shopping. Following an argument with her boyfriend, Lynne goes put to buy a camera on her own and is soon pressured into signing a hire purchase agreement for an expensive camera. Her boyfriend Walter is aghast, but they are introduced to the magazine Which? and with sage advice put right their mistakes.
Lynne and Walter also appear in the following episode, Are You Certain?.
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