Dragons' Den

Series 2

In the second series of Dragons' Den Theo Paphitis replaced Simon Woodroffe - but Rachel Elnaugh, Duncan Bannatyne, Peter Jones and Doug Richard were all back.

A pants saleswoman broke down and cried. And Dominic Killinger, managing director of a Wi-Fi company had three offers from four dragons to choose from.

David Lees owned a company making innovative advertising hardware. Profits in the following year were projected at £120,000 and Panasonic had tentatively offered him £3.25 million for the company.

Lees told the dragons: "I lack business acumen," and then confirmed his statement by agreeing to sell half of his company to them for £225,000.

Danny Bamping was offered £100,000 for an investment in Bedlam Puzzles, a company which makes a worthy successor to the Rubik's Cube. However, the dragons wanted too big a share of his company and he turned down the offer after the show and borrowed the money from a bank.

Series 1

Evan Davis was on BBC Two in December 2005 with an update of some of the items from the first series of Dragons' Den. Simon Woodroffe, Rachel Elnaugh, Duncan Bannatyne, Peter Jones and Doug Richard were the dragons in series one.

Charles Ejogo was shown winning an investment of about £150,000 for his umbrella vending machines with plasma screen ads placed in underground stations.

Duncan Bannatyne and Peter Jones agreed to invest £75,000 each for 40% of the equity. The dragons backed off their investment when they figured out Mr Ejogo didn't have a contract to place vending machines with ads on them in underground stations. Mr Ejogo then bought 50,000 umbrellas and one vending machine was located in a shopping centre.

Graham Whitby was the guy who was too nervous to deliver his spiel on the Baby Dream Machine, a device for rocking baby to sleep. Graham and the product's inventor, Barry Haigh, then did not have a reasonable idea of the value of the product.

Barry Haigh is now trying to flog the Baby Dream Machine via his own website on the internet. There is no evidence of any other retail distribution - or any sign of Graham Whitby.

Huw Gwyther collected £175,000 from Peter Jones for a new lifestyle and celebrity magazine for rich people. Wonderland went on sale in November 2005. The magazine was priced at £4.95, with a print run of 140,000 copies. Huw Gwyther wouldn't tell Evan Davis how many of them had been sold.

Doug Richard pointed out that Wonderland was trying to position itself as a magazine for both men and women. But when Evan Davis and Huw Gwyther went to find the magazine in a rack in a WH Smith store it was located next to FHM and another magazine displaying female flesh on its front cover.

The dragons were not interested in a plastic wedge you could take along to a restaurant in case your table wobbled.

Rachel Elnaugh

Rachel Elnaugh's company, Red Letter Days, went into administration just after the second series was recorded. Some assets of Red Letter Days have been bought by Peter Jones and another dragon.

Two individuals who were promised funding by Rachel Elnaugh in series one of Dragons' Den have not received all the investment promised.

Elizabeth Galton, a jewellery designer, was promised £55,000 for a 15% stake in her company by Ms Elnaugh on the show. They then fell out over payment for a £3,000 designer necklace that Ms Elnaugh used in a photo-shoot and Ms Galton never received the promised investment.

Paddy Radcliffe, of Snowbone, a company making attachments for snowboards, is still looking for investors after Ms Elnaugh decided not to put up the full £75,000 she promised on the show for a third of the business.

Rachel Elnaugh appeared in each episode of Dragons' Den series two. There is no evidence that anyone at the BBC had spotted her impending financial problems while the series was being recorded. She sat making excuses for not investing in the opportunities presented during each of the episodes - and then presumably went home with a fat fee for her role as a wealthy investor.