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 are at the site of the oil rig accident where they're immediately led to a man who has been pinned down by debris. The workers at the site have been trying to lift it off him but to no avail. It seems he'd been knocked unconscious when he was pinned down. Beth checks for a pulse and gets it. She checks his vitals and concludes that they have to get him out of there immediately. The workers keep trying to unpin him; but the situation at the site is getting dangerous. The fire is causing some nearby explosions and even more falling debris. Andy tells Beth she has to make a decision as he hands her a scalpel.
