Shelley starred in the 1984 TV movie Single Bars, Single Women. Based on the 1982 Dolly Parton song "Single Women," the film explored the singles scene for women - post women's lib - where women were joining the work force in droves and earning their own keep. Women were going out on their own, sans escorts and chaperones; so the rules of dating were changing... fast. Women would go bar-hopping alone to meet the men they wanted to meet. "We are in the midst of this big sexual revolution, and one thing that hasn't been done is to realize it's just as hard to today's men," Shelley told TV Week in 1984. "We're all trying to figure out what to do now, men and women," she added. Shelley said of the modern 1980s woman, "The average woman today wants everything. My little sister is 16. It's going to be easier for her. She's growing up with the idea that she'll work. Not that working is bad; it's just that her options are greater, her world larger and career a foregone conclusion."
