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.
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- Cast：
- Yannick Bisson , Ted Atherton , Kristian Ayre , Sarah Chalke , Jewel Staite , Will Sanderson
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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.
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.
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