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. Shelley played Dr. Beth Gilbert, an ambitious surgeon on temporary assignment in Cutter who aspires to be a heart surgeon in Houston. The series was aired in Germany in 1988 as Die Texas-Klinik (The Texas Clinic) and was a huge hit. Many German-language magazines featured covers and writeups about Shelley in 1988, and one of them was Bild + Funk (Image + Radio). Their August 1988 issue had Shelley on the cover and a promo/writeup called "Drei Ärzte für Texas" inside the mag. Unfortunately, the short run of the series in the US limited the episodes to just nine in total. It left German fans wanting more.
