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What A Wonderful Life
Lytton's Diary - S2 - E6
Lytton is a judge at an international beauty competition that goes wrong, and finds himself investigating his old friend's financial background. Meanwhile, the paper's owner is planning a technological revolution in Fleet Street.
Lytton's Diary: Season 2 - 6 Episode s
2x1 - The End And The Means
January 8, 1986
Neville Lytton returns to his desk at the Daily News after a brutal mugging. He is soon involved in investigating a suicide and a Whitehall scandal helps to get him back into the routine.
2x2 - Rules of Engagement
January 15, 1986
A new journalist at the Daily News is instantly unpopular when it is discovered that she owes her job to the editor's patronage. Lytton sends her in pursuit of a runaway tennis star.
2x3 - The Ancient Regime
January 22, 1986
A famous sex symbol has a change of heart about on-screen nudity and receives a rich and mysterious visitor. Lytton is onto the story, but is waylaid by his paper's owner and a mysterious lunchtime appointment.
2x4 - The Miracle Man
January 29, 1986
Lytton investigates why the same well-known faces are always appearing at an American evangelists healing ceremonies, and is also involved in a confused plan to publish his first novel. The behaviour of the young new editor of the Daily News horrifies him.
2x5 - National Hero
February 5, 1986
Duncan Anderson, a revered public figure and a friend of Lytton's is regarded as just another old fogey by pop columnist Trevor Bates. Meanwhile, Henry is deep ly concerned about midnight meetings in a gazebo.
2x6 - What A Wonderful Life
February 12, 1986
Lytton is a judge at an international beauty competition that goes wrong, and finds himself investigating his old friend's financial background. Meanwhile, the paper's owner is planning a technological revolution in Fleet Street.