You Can't Win (1966)
- Genre
- drama television series
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A physics teacher in 1930s provincial England navigates his personal and professional life. The story follows him as he later relocates to London and adapts to a different social world.
wryobservationalmildly satiricalunderstatedbittersweetepisodicnostalgic
What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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