screen captures from the Cutter to Houston pilot episode, 1983
Shelley's second foray into series TV was Cutter to Houston. It was about three young doctors from the world-famous Texas Medical Center in Houston who were recruited to run a small hospital in the fictional rural town of Cutter, Texas. Jim Metzler and Alec Baldwin played the other two doctors. Jim played idealistic GP Dr. Andy Fenton, who grew up in Cutter and is glad to be home. Alec played internist/ladies man Dr. Hal Wexler, who is getting through his probation, having been relegated to Cutter for being a little too fast and free with his prescriptions. And Shelley played Dr. Beth Gilbert, an ambitious surgeon on temporary assignment in Cutter and aspires to be a heart surgeon in Houston.
more screen captures from the Cutter to Houston pilot episode, 1983
Dr. Andy Fenton is driving his jeep and in a rush to get to Cutter Community Hospital. There had been an accident in one of the town's oil rigs and many of the workers who've been hurt have been brought there. Dr. Hal Wexler, the only doctor on duty tonight, has his hands full as workers who've sustained minor injuries have been coming into the hospital. Andy arrives into a room full of injured and rowdy men but had to tell Hal he had to leave immediately. He needed to go to the site of the accident where more men have been hurt, seriously hurt. Dr. Beth Gilbert arrives soon after, amid the workers who've been attended to and are now rowdily singing their woes away. Hal's relief at seeing her there is short-lived as she too is going to the site of the accident, with Andy.
