Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy was a CBC Television television show based upon the adventures of author and rancher Richmond P. Hobson, Jr. in Northern British Columbia. It is based upon the eponymous book and also The Rancher Takes a Wife.
With money tight at the ranch, Rich takes work at a logging camp, where he dusts off his skills as a boxer, knocking out the camp favourite to win the pot. But when Pan smells something funny, there's sure to be a rat.
A haying accident sends Rich and Pan over the mountains on a dangerous all-night ride for a doctor, while Gloria struggles to keep their injured friend alive.
When a slow-talking, crack young cowboy shows up looking for work, Pan thinks the ranch's labour problems may be solved. But love and heartbreak are in the air, and despite his skill, ""the Natural"" turns out to be more trouble than he's worth.
It's time for the cattle drive, but a difference of opinion leads Pan and Rich to split the herd, challenging one another in a race to town. If the tortoise can beat the hare, do Rich and Gloria really need their partner Pan to help run the ranch? Meanwhile, Tommy has an exciting night with a beautiful girl, causing jealousy in Kit.
When the bottom drops out of the beef market, Rich, Pan and Gloria are forced to swim with Vancouver's financial sharks to try and save their ranch.
War is declared on the Blackwater when Rich, Pan and Gloria find themselves battling their neighbour, Rupert Mowat, over a coveted meadow.
Rich suspects sabotage as he, Gloria and Pan attempt to cut a 30-mile road through the wilderness so they can drive an abandoned truck to the ranch.
Rich and Gloria argue when she makes a decision about the ranch without consulting him, and their relationship woes cause newly engaged Robert and Esther to question marriage. Meanwhile, Tommy enlists Kit to help him impress a visitor.
Pan's night of passion with a beautiful English woman turns into a nightmare when he finds out that she is Rupert's bride-to-be.
When Gloria's cousin shows up at the ranch, Rich's guilty conscience tells him Binky is out to get revenge for the doublecross Rich and Pan pulled on him in Vancouver.
Rich seeks privacy for himself and Gloria, so he sets about renovating an abandoned shack into living quarters for Pan, ignoring rumors that the place is haunted. Meanwhile, Kit and Tommy share a kiss after she receives word that Ed is shipping out.
Gloria's suspicions are aroused when a prostitute seeks Rich's helps.
A veterinarian offers Kit a rewarding life in Calgary.
Things get very bad quickly when the ranch is hit by an outbreak of the stomach flu leaving everyone sick and stuck together and driving each other mad.
Rich and Pan's friend, Robert McDaniels gets into serious trouble with the law when he is captured and put on trial for murder. It's up to Rich and Pan to prove it was justifible homicide.
Rich confronts two thugs who are bothering Gloria and discovers that they are the notorious Fraker brothers.
Pan and Gloria go behind Rich's back to raise money for the ranch.
After a winter cooped up in the cabin with Rich and Pan, Gloria can't wait to be alone. But when the men ride off on a treacherous hunt for missing cattle, she discovers springtime in the wilderness brings out more than the flowers.
The discovery of Kit's secret identity prompts a trip to town. There Pan rekindles his torrid affair with the widow Franklin. Rich manages to locate Kit's father, but when the man shows his true colors, Gloria unites her partners to assure Kit's place on the ranch.
Money woes and male competition are front and center when Gloria's best friend Muriel arrives at the ranch with Connor, an ex-beau of Gloria's. Rich is worried that city life may reclaim his bride, but Pan's running bid to obtain a prize stallion will prove once and for all who's ""the stud.""
Inept ranch hands, calving cows and nosy neighbors keep interrupting Rich and Gloria's private life. It's going to take the RCMP, a copy of ""Lady Chatterley's Lover,"" and a moose testicle to get them back together.
Rich's obsession with clearing more land for hay leads to a risky plan to build a giant harrow. When her prize new horse is pressed into service to pull it, Gloria discovers that building the world's biggest cattle ranch is a costly dream.
Rich didn't know the widow Franklin would be the house guest from hell. Distraught over her son, who's missing in action, she's browbeating Gloria into domesticity and attracting the dubious attention of a pig farmer - a situation which could force Pan to take drastic measures.
When a big-city mining promoter shows up prospecting, Rich and Pan figure it'll be easy money guiding him in circles. But their mark proves to have big-city savvy, boundless energy, and a grand vision of the future that threatens to ""civilize"" the north.
Rich has double booked himself--Gloria's thinks they're celebrating their first anniversary, and Pan thinks they're going wild horse hunting. The solution? Rich takes the wife wild horse hunting, and Gloria learns some hard lessons in frontier living.
Gloria takes advantage of Pan's absence to have a romantic evening with Rich, but champagne leads to Truth or Consequences and the going gets tough. The going is tough out on the trail, too, where Pan faces a crisis of his own.
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| Language | English |
| Release | 1999-01-08 |
| Producer | Alliance Atlantis Communications |