• 7
    watchers
  • 46
    plays
  • 48
    collected
  • 1999-01-08T05:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 1h
  • 10h (10 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Drama
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.

10 episodes

Series Premiere

1999-01-08T05:00:00Z

1x01 Home Alone

Series Premiere

1x01 Home Alone

  • 1999-01-08T05:00:00Z1h

1999-01-08T05:00:00Z

1x02 Home Alone

1x02 Home Alone

  • 1999-01-08T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1999-01-15T05:00:00Z

1x03 Charades

1x03 Charades

  • 1999-01-15T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1999-01-22T05:00:00Z

1x04 The Stud

1x04 The Stud

  • 1999-01-22T05:00:00Z1h

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.""

1x05 Sex, Lies and Narrow Escapes

  • 1999-02-05T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1999-02-12T05:00:00Z

1x06 Harrow of Babel

1x06 Harrow of Babel

  • 1999-02-12T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1999-02-19T05:00:00Z

1x07 House Guests and Fish

1x07 House Guests and Fish

  • 1999-02-19T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1x08 The Shape of Things to Come

  • 1999-02-27T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1999-03-04T05:00:00Z

1x09 Wild Horses

1x09 Wild Horses

  • 1999-03-04T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1999-03-11T05:00:00Z

1x10 A Year and a Day

1x10 A Year and a Day

  • 1999-03-11T05:00:00Z1h

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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