From 1987 until 1993, he lived in Los Angeles, and scripted several TV shows, including Lake Consequence.

He continued to practise his trade during this period, scripting Night of Abandon, an episode of the Red Shoe Diaries, in 1997.

[2] In 2008 he engaged in – and won –[3] a debate with Scott Rice, founder of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a bad-writing contest sponsored annually by San Jose State University, on the subject of the literary reputation of his ancestor Bulwer-Lytton.

The debate took place in Lytton, British Columbia, named after the novelist; the mayor made it clear that the town was backing the Bulwer-Lytton side.

[citation needed] Henry Lytton Cobbold and Mary Letitia Greene: In the Bosom of Her Father - The Life and Death of Emily Bulwer Lytton, complete illustrated edition in two volumes, Knebworth 2017, ISBN 978-0-9539649-5-6