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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.
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from the Cutter to Houston pilot episode, 1983
To continue, Hal goes over to the Tollhouse farm to visit Sally. He is asked to stay and joins Sally and her family for dinner. Her father, Alton, tries to get to know the young doctor, while her bother, Carl, whom Hal treated at Cutter Community Hospital, remains suspicious of his motives. After dinner, Sally walks Hal to his car and the two share a kiss. Alton watches the two from a window.
