You Can't Win is 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.
The show was produced by Granada Television.
Contents
Cast
Ian McShane as Joe Lunn
John Humphry as Robert Watson
Peter Birrel as Tom Jacobs
Anton Darby as Steve
Patricia Garwood 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
Anna Sweeney as Jennifer
Heather Spratt as Shirley
Elizabeth Weaver as Sybil
Janet Norman as Daphne
Patricia Garwood as Myrtle
Gillian Lewis as Virginia
Ray Gatenby as Spinks
Episode list
The show included seven episodes.
Who's for America?
In at the Deep End
Chaos is Come
Goodbye Myrtle Goodbye
The New Look
Learning the Law
The Stream of Life