Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1999)
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.
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Episode 1 - Float Like A Butterfly
Release Date: 1999-10-08With 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.
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Episode 2 - The Great Race
Release Date: 1999-10-15A 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.
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Episode 3 - The Natural
Release Date: 1999-10-22When 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.
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Episode 4 - Happy Trails
Release Date: 1999-10-29It'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.
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Episode 5 - Deja Vu All Over Again
Release Date: 1999-11-05When 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.
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Episode 6 - Peace In Our Time
Release Date: 1999-11-12War is declared on the Blackwater when Rich, Pan and Gloria find themselves battling their neighbour, Rupert Mowat, over a coveted meadow.
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Episode 7 - Three For The Road
Release Date: 1999-11-19Rich 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.
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Episode 8 - Fools for Love
Release Date: 1999-11-26Rich 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.
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Episode 9 - Mrs. Mowat
Release Date: 1999-12-03Pan'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.
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Episode 10 - A Deal With The Devil
Release Date: 1999-12-10When 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.
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Episode 11 - Guest House Ghost
Release Date: 1999-12-17Rich 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.
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Episode 12 - The Cowboy, His Wife, His Partner & The Nude
Release Date: 2000-01-07Gloria's suspicions are aroused when a prostitute seeks Rich's helps.
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Episode 13 - Anything Goes
Release Date: 2000-01-14A veterinarian offers Kit a rewarding life in Calgary.
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Episode 14 - For Better or For Worse
Release Date: 2000-01-21Things 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.
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Episode 15 - Witness for the Extradition
Release Date: 2000-01-28Rich 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.
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Episode 16 - Home is the Hero
Release Date: 2000-02-04Rich confronts two thugs who are bothering Gloria and discovers that they are the notorious Fraker brothers.
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Episode 17 - No Bull
Release Date: 2000-02-11Pan and Gloria go behind Rich's back to raise money for the ranch.