Shelley appeared on the cover of the mag Monday Woman in 1984; and inside, there was a writeup about her called "Shelley Hack: Women Today Want Everything." The writeup went though the ups and downs of Shelley's acting career so far. After leaving Charlie's Angels in 1980, she was determined to learn her craft and be good at it. She received praise for her stage efforts in Jack Heifner's Vanities, Elizabeth Diggs's play Close Ties and Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday. She received great reviews for her performance in Martin Scorsese's film The King of Comedy, for her work on the TV movies Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer and Found Money (aka Max and Sam). She starred in her second TV series Cutter to Houston. And in 1984, she was cast as Christine Sullivan on the second season of Night Court. But when the series started shooting, Shelley and producer Reinhold Weege decided she wasn't right for the part; and they mutually and amicably agreed to call the whole thing off. That same year, Shelley starred in the TV movie Single Bars, Single Women.
