Season 3 • Episode 26
LatestReturning with Marie and Clive from a party in a neighboring town, Jack is critically wounded by a criminal he had arrested while a Texas Ranger. Taking refuge in an abandoned cabin, the three friends are pinned down by the shooter and his cohorts. Realizing that Jack will die without help, Clive attempts to sneak out of the cabin, but he, too, is shot. It is up to the townspeople to deliver a ransom to the outlaws and free the lawmen and Marie.
Bordertown is a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicts the town formerly known as Pemmican that was later renamed Bordertown when the western border between the United States and Canada was surveyed in 1880, dividing the town.
Writing
Clever premise mines genuine comedy from bureaucratic absurdity.
Production
Alberta locations authentically chilly and gorgeously bleak.
Creator
Robert Lantos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a rare co-production between Alliance Entertainment and France's TF1, explaining why Dr. Dumont has that inexplicable French sophistication in the middle of Alberta.
Bordertown quietly pioneered the 'nice western' subgenre that would later include Heartland and When Calls the Heart — proving Canadians can do frontier drama without all the toxic masculinity.
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