Five investors sat on the panel in the first British series of Dragons' Den.
The original British panel consisted of Peter Jones, Duncan Bannatyne, Rachel Elnaugh, Doug Richard and Simon Woodroffe. Together, they formed the group of investors entrepreneurs faced when the BBC launched its version of the international business-pitch format.
The number matters because later line-ups were not fixed. Dragons' Den regularly changed its panel as investors departed, returned as guest dragons or were replaced by new business figures. Viewers who mainly remember a later combination can therefore miscount the original group.
The first panel should also be separated from the programme's later guest appearances and special episodes. The answer refers to the regular investor panel in series one, rather than the number of people who have appeared as dragons across the show's entire history.