With DOND turning six(!) years old in October, those who watched the first couple of years of episodes, are there any moments that stand out as being very unlike what the show eventually became? Oddly high/low Banker offers, Noel behaviour, contestant behaviour, that sort of thing. Here are a few to start off:

Andy K's game - well, one the actual contestant, there's no way someone who describes Banker offers as "insulting" and generally his whole persona would be allowed on the show today (shame really) Also, Noel objecting when he rubbishes the (then-high) opening offer of £5,000 - "I never, ever want to treat money on this show as a flippant, take it or leave it commodity". Far from the "YOU'VE SQUANDERED THE CHANCE" Noel of later years.

Also, I forget which game, but 50-show Lucy said something quite surprising to a male contestant once. He was being wacky and messing about in his show, and Lucy said something along the lines of "Stop messing about and start taking the game seriously", to the approving audience applause. With all contestants these days treating the respective player like they're their best friend in the whole world ever, it seemed quite a harsh thing for her to say at the time (and left in the final edit) but it definitely wouldn't happen now.

Any more?

Jennifer's 2-box offer is the one thing that sticks out like a sore thumb but given that was the first QM in play at 2-box, I'm not sure the producers knew how to pitch it so they went for the ridiculously high option (although given a certain game recently, it's possibly that because she turned down £52k on a £250k/£100k/peanuts board, it could be argued it was the first huge offer because the banker was scared).

Power five wins were a regular thing back in the previous years, nowadays they are just few and far between, although this seems to be coming back as of late.

Specific to 2005: groans for low reds in the opening two rounds. Opening offers of £3-4k after excellent starts (even the first all-blue only got £4,300).

More applicable to 2006: players not thanking the Banker for offers that are clear No Deals. The question being instigated by Noel and not the player.

I really miss the phone-in competition and especially when a player with a funny voice got to announce it (Tax-Free Harry, Nalini, Gus, Bunney, posh Lance etc).

Also I seem to remember a lot of the early players did not say "I'm ready for the question"!!

In the first three years or thereabouts, it wasn't all that uncommon that a contestant did 30 shows or more.

Nowadays, such contestants are as rare as hen's teeth - and we can all safely say that no-one will even come close to Lucy's record...

Noel's "break" riddled break-links (such as "Can you break the run of bad luck? Oh, did I say 'break'?") are a thing of the past, although that's probably because he ran out of new ones.

There have been quite a few catchphrases that Noel used a lot in the early shows, and they haven't been used for ages and probably won't be used again.

And who can forget the "blue" chants?! They were prominent throughout 2007 and then were banned, so I can't see them making a return any time soon.

Like "Channel 4 is all yours" or "We do not want to see the quarter-of-a-million"?

The best of all: "The show that gives real people a real chance to win real money."

Dropping that was the start of the show's slippery slope of sensationalism.

Good use of sibilance KP.

If I'm right in thinking, players hugging and kissing other contestants after each box opening wasn't quite as common in the early days as it is now...

True... but then there are lots of things that happen now that didn't happen in the early days.

A couple more things that never happen nowadays are primetime editions (remember the Saturday night editions in Spring 2006?), and Noel wearing a jacket (although he normally did that during the primetime shows).

The tradition of listing all the players' names on the New Year's Eve show seems to have stopped too, although I think they only did that in 2006 and 2007.

The blue chants are so long gone that the production team don't even bother telling the audience in the holding area not to do them any more.

The player opening their own box at the end.

Do they still celebrate bonfire night in anyway or have special boxes for other events they aren't making a week out of?

For a bit Noel would always say 'Welcome to the dream factory here in Bristol'.

I don't know why they don't keep people there for longer, it left more mystery about the people and you were more interested in their game as a result.

But you also get fewer people doing low show counts nowadays. In the early days, it was common for people to only do 14 - 17 shows (or even fewer!), but that's quite rare nowadays.

What about £20,000+ opening offers? That never happens anymore. Even an all blue opening only got an offer of £11,000.

If I recall rightly, there were only three. One followed an all-blue, two were in something else we never see now - £500k games.

Wonder why it is that very nearly every contestant these days does no more than 27 shows and no less than 18?

And in common with that theme - there were no stupid overdramatic "pitch invasions" for low-middle red box wins. Yes, by all means do them for the £250k or £100k, but like tonight, for £5,000? Seriously?

But presumably they used up the contestants who seemed less interesting sooner and kept on the more quirky one? I think it was better in a way because you could miss the show for a few weeks and still feel a connection because a few of the people you remembered are still there.

It might be a better arrangements regards contestants and them booking time of work and things.