Shelley's first foray into series TV was in 1979, via the megahit Charlie's Angels. Her second TV series came in 1983; it was called 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 and co-stars Jim Metzler and Alec Baldwin played the doctors. Shelley played Dr. Beth Gilbert, an ambitious surgeon on temporary assignment in Cutter who aspired to be a heart surgeon in Houston. Jim played idealistic GP Dr. Andy Fenton, who grew up in Cutter and was glad to be home. And then newcomer Alec played internist/ladies man Dr. Hal Wexler, who was getting through his probation, having been relegated to Cutter for being a little too fast and free with his prescriptions.
