Shelley's third TV series was Jack and Mike in 1986. Producer David Gerber wanted to develop a series with her in the title role called Jackie O'Shea. It was going to be a star vehicle for Shelley. She was going to play a woman journalist who had a supportive husband waiting at home - kind of like a reverse gender role thing, a phenomenon happening in the 1980s. Gerber contacted Tom Mason to play the husband as he had a good chemistry with Shelley when they played boyfriend/girlfriend in the TV movie Kicks. But Tom wanted the characters to be more equal, so the focus of the series changed from just Jackie to the marriage of Jackie and her husband Mike. It was retitled Our Kind of Town and Jackie's husband was given a bigger role. When it aired, it was again retitled Jack and Mike with both Shelley and Tom getting equal billing.
