You Can't Win
1966 - 1966
30 min
1 season, 7 episodes
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You Can't Win was a 1966 British television series made by ITV as an adaptation of the novels Scenes from Provincial Life and Scenes from Married Life by William Cooper. It stars Ian McShane as protagonist Joe Lunn, an English provincial grammar school physics teacher in 1939 who later moves to London and into the English establishment.
Top Cast
Ian McShane as Joe Lunn
John Humphry as Robert Watson
Peter Birrel as Tom Jacobs
Anton Darby as Steve
Patricia Garwood as Myrtle
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