Yannick Bisson
Richmond Hobson
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1999)
Season 1
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.
Released Jan. 8, 1999
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Keywords: tmdb.canada, tmdb.ranch, tmdb.cattle-ranch, tmdb.1940s, tmdb.british-columbia, imdb.ranch, imdb.canada + 2 more, imdb.1940s, imdb.british-columbia-canada
Production Companies: Alliance Atlantis
Network: CBC Television
S1E1 - Home Alone
Jan. 8, 1999, midnight
S1E2 - Home Alone
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.
Jan. 8, 1999, midnight
S1E3 - Charades
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.
Jan. 15, 1999, midnight
S1E4 - The Stud
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.""
Jan. 22, 1999, midnight
S1E5 - Sex, Lies and Narrow Escapes
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.
Feb. 5, 1999, midnight
S1E6 - Harrow of Babel
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.
Feb. 12, 1999, midnight
S1E7 - House Guests and Fish
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.
Feb. 19, 1999, midnight
S1E8 - The Shape of Things to Come
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.
Feb. 27, 1999, midnight
S1E9 - Wild Horses
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.
March 4, 1999, midnight
S1E10 - A Year and a Day
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.
March 11, 1999, midnight
Network: CBC Television
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Jan. 8, 1999
Last Air Date: Feb. 11, 2000, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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