You Can't Win

NR (0 votes)• 1966• 30m•Ended

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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.

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Starring Cast: Ian McShane, John Humphry, Peter Birrel, Anton Darby, Patricia Garwood, David Robinson

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Ian McShane

Joe Lunn

John Humphry

Robert Watson

Peter Birrel

Tom Jacobs

Anton Darby

Steve

Patricia Garwood

Myrtle

David Robinson

Frank

Roger Hammond

Harry

Donald Hewlett

Daddy

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