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You Can't Win
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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
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John Humphry
Robert Watson
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Peter Birrel
Tom Jacobs
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Anton Darby
Steve
Patricia Garwood
Myrtle
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David Robinson
Frank
Roger Hammond
Harry
Donald Hewlett
Daddy
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SeriesStatus
Ended
Release
July 7, 1966
Episode Runtime
30 min
Language
English
Origin
United Kingdom
Episodes
7 • 1 seasons
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