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, Beth, Ginny and a nurse rush to Frank's room where the screaming was coming from. As Beth enters the room, she realizes what is happening. She tells the nurse and Ginny to leave immediately and closes the door behind them. Frank had awakened and discovered that he had lost an arm. Beth had to surgically remove his arm to unpin him from the debris. If she hadn't he would have died. Beth is moved and glad he's alive and conscious. Meanwhile, Hal is driving through Cutter when he spots Sally Tollhouse, the girl at Cutter Community Hospital the night before. She's horseback riding beside the highway; and Hal decides to stop and to have a chat with her.
