Sam Elliot? With Katharine Ross (his real-life wife) in the lead feminine role?
I was living in Germany in the early eighties and took a Travis McGee novel out of a pile of books at work, just out of boredom, and read it an proceeded to read the whole series from DRESS HER IN INDIGO to THE LONELY SILVER RAIN, and
The Dreadful Lemon sky
The Quick Red Fox
Cinnamon Skin
and on and on.....
I think she was.