[Nobby]

There's no way anyone could believe it to be live with the way the chairs and screens (and money in the early series) kept vanishing and reappearing between camera shots!

That's all very well coming from someone who wasn't born in 1998 when series one was shown but I remember ITV did everything to make people believe it was live other than actually say it was live.

"I know you can't see your television right now" when taking to someone on the phone.

Chris Tarrent always used to name check the day of the week or even the exact date of broadcast.

IIRC, we never saw any clips of future episodes before they were broadcast.