You Can't Win

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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.

Series Cast

Ian McShaneJoe Lunn

John HumphryRobert Watson

Peter BirrelTom Jacobs

Anton DarbySteve

Patricia GarwoodMyrtle

David RobinsonFrank

Roger HammondHarry

Donald HewlettDaddy