You Can't Win (1966 TV series)
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| Genre | Drama |
| Starring | Ian McShane |
| Original language(s) | British |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
| Release | |
| Original channel | ITV |
| Original release | 1966 |
You Can’t Win was a 1966 British television series made by ITV starring Ian McShane as Joe Lunn, in an adaptation of the novels Scenes from Provincial Life and also Scenes from Married Life by William Cooper. The hero Joe Lunn is an English provincial grammar school physics teacher who later moves to London and into the English establishment.
The series had seven episodes: The Stream of Life; Learning the Law; The New Look; Goodbye Myrtle, Goodbye; Chaos is Come; In at the Deep End and Who'se for America.
Cast
- Ian McShane as Joe Lunn
- John Humphry as Robert Watson
- Peter Birrel as Tom Jacobs
- Anton Darby as Steve
- Patricia Gerwood as Myrtle
- Andrew Rimmer as Trevor
- David Robinson as Frank
- Jennie Linden as Elspeth
- Michael Barrington as Roland Bolshaw
- Ann Curthoys as Annette
- Rosemary Frankau as Miss Froggatt
- Roger Hammond as Harry
- Donald Hewlett as Daddy
- Marie Hopps as Mrs Harrison
- Mike Lucas as Benny
- Geraldine Newman as Barbara
- William Victor as Fred