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, at home, Beth's telephone is ringing. It's the middle of the night and she is sound asleep; but the ringing rouses her and she answers the phone. She says she'll be there and hangs up. Back at Cutter Community Hospital, Ginny Bickum lies unconscious in a station-wagon. She's been rushed there by that friend who found her in her home at that state. It's probably due to the complications she's been experiencing in her pregnancy. Andy and Nurse Patty put her on a stretcher and rushes her into the hospital. Beth arrives and joins them.
