Alan Whicker's Journey of a Lifetime: The Americas

The late veteran journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker repacks his battered suitcase for another leg on his Journey of a Lifetime. He travels from west to east across America to track down his favourite couple, a prolific Hollywood plastic surgeon and his wife, who also happens to be his favourite patient. When originally shown they generated the biggest ever postbag of Whicker's career, but after thirty years are they still together? And what will all the surgery have done to them? Whicker explores once more the closed community of the ultra-wealthy ladies of Palm Beach. He revisits the groundbreaking 1960s programme where he filmed the trial of a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, who were both facing the death penalty and looks back at startling footage of America's first so-called serial killer seconds after his arrest. Whicker also re-examines his extraordinary interview with Haitian dictator Papa Doc, his most critically acclaimed film for which he won the prestigious Dumont Award.