You Can't Win

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 McShane

Joe Lunn

J

John Humphry

Robert Watson

P

Peter Birrel

Tom Jacobs

A

Anton Darby

Steve

Patricia Garwood

Myrtle

D

David Robinson

Frank

Roger Hammond

Harry

Donald Hewlett

Daddy