You Can't Win

Overview

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.

Network

• ITV Granada

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Ian McShane

  Joe Lunn

  7 eps

• John Humphry

  Robert Watson

  7 eps

• Peter Birrel

  Tom Jacobs

  7 eps

• Anton Darby

  Steve

  7 eps

• 

  Patricia Garwood

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