Shelley in a publicity still for Cutter to Houston, 1983
Shelley second foray into series TV came in the form of Cutter to Houston. It was the story about three young doctors running a clinic in small-town Cutter (fictitious) but was hooked up to a big city hospital in Houston which they called upon for cases they couldn't their facility couldn't handle. Shelley played Dr. Beth Gilbert, a surgeon from San Francisco whose ambition was to work in a big city hospital someday.