screen captures from the Jack and Mike pilot episode, 1986
Shelley's third foray into series TV was Jack and Mike. It was about a married yuppie couple living in Chicago, trying to find time for each other in their busy schedules. Shelley played Jackie Shea, a star columnist at The Mirror, a widely-circulated Chicago paper. Her column was awaited by everyone every week. Her husband was Mike Brennan (played by Tom Mason), a successful restaurateur about to open his third restaurant. The pilot was released in VHS format and distributed in Europe, in the Netherlands and Belgium; but only the pilot episode. The entire episode was kept as is; but subtitles in Dutch were burned into the media for the convenience of the target audience. The episode runs for 90 minutes and was originally aired in September 16, 1986.
more screen captures from the Jack and Mike pilot episode, 1986
To continue, Jackie gives victim Ann Pulaski a visit to get her version of what happened. Ann's mother, reluctantly, allows her to talk to Ann even though she knows how much stress it would bring her daughter. Ann gives Jackie her version of events and becomes extremely upset, so her mother asks Jackie to leave. Outside their door, Jackie is shaken. She clearly was so shaken by what she witnessed that, later, during a trip to the grocery with Mike, she becomes upset herself. Sensing her predicament, Mike gets Jackie to talk about her experience and assures her she knows how to handle the situation. Jackie calms down and gets things in perspective.
