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You Can't Win
You Can't Win
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You Can't Win

1966–1966
1 Season
7 Episodes

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.

CAST
Ian McShaneJoe LunnJohn HumphryRobert WatsonPeter BirrelTom JacobsAnton DarbyStevePatricia GarwoodMyrtleDavid RobinsonFrankRoger HammondHarryDonald HewlettDaddyEdward Woodward
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STATUSEnded
RATING
NR
NETWORK
ITV Granada
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