Lytton's Diary

Series 2

6 episodes · Jan 8, 1986

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  • S2E1

    The End and the Means

    Jan 8, 198630m

    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.

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  • S2E2

    Rules of Engagement

    Jan 15, 198630m

    A new journalist at The Daily News is instantly unpopular when it's discovered that her job is owed to the editor's patronage. Lytton sends her in pursuit of a runaway tennis star.

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  • S2E3

    The Ancient Regime

    Jan 22, 198630m

    A famous sex symbol has a change of heart about on-screen nudity and receives a rich and mysterious visitor. Lytton is on the story, but is waylaid by his paper's owner and a mysterious lunchtime appointment.

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  • S2E4

    The Miracle Man

    Jan 29, 198630m

    Lytton investigates why the same well-known faces are always appearing at an American evangelist's 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.

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  • S2E5

    National Hero

    Feb 5, 198630m

    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 deeply concerned about midnight meetings in a gazebo.

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  • S2E6

    What a Wonderful Life

    Feb 12, 198630m

    Lytton is a judge at an international beauty competition gone awry, and finds himself investigating an old friend's financial background. Meanwhile, the paper's owner is planning a technological revolution in Fleet Street.

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