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You Can't Win

1966 – 1966 · ITV Granada
1 seasons · 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.

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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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Status
Ended
Type
Scripted
First aired
Jul 7, 1966
Original language
EN
Production
Granada Television
Country
GB

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