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
To continue, Andy and Beth run to the back of the Cutter Community Hospital where a helicopter is waiting for them. There had been an accident in one of the town's oil rigs and many of the workers have been hurt and they have to get there really fast. The equipment they need has been loaded into the chopper and the two doctors get in and quickly fly off to the site. Meanwhile, back inside Cutter Community Hospital, Hal is trying to keep everything in order, putting all their patient's minds at ease. He's a little rattled by the amount of work and is himself put at ease by Nurse Connie Buford. He makes his rounds and is surprised by what he sees. A bit of a ladies man, he is taken aback by the beautiful young woman in front of him.
