screen captures from the Jack and Mike pilot episode, 1986
Shelley's third foray into series TV was Jack and Mike. It was about a married yuppie couple living in Chicago, trying to find time for each other in their busy schedules. Shelley played Jackie Shea, a star columnist at The Mirror, a widely-circulated Chicago paper. Her column was awaited by everyone every week. Her husband was Mike Brennan (played by Tom Mason), a successful restaurateur about to open his third restaurant. The pilot was released in VHS format and distributed in Europe, in the Netherlands and Belgium; but only the pilot episode. The entire episode was kept as is; but subtitles in Dutch were burned into the media for the convenience of the target audience. The episode runs for 90 minutes and was originally aired in September 16, 1986.
more screen captures from the Jack and Mike pilot episode, 1986
To continue, Jackie and her assistant Anthony leave The Mirror, discussing the Sykes case, how it had blown open a drug ring operating in the city involving Councilman Kazan, a CPD detective and Kazan's "business" partner Timothy Sullivan, the father of Chris Sykes' lookalike Harry Sullivan, the real rapist. Jackie goes over to visit Chris Sykes to see how he's doing. He was exonerated and is back working at the school he was teaching in before he was let go because of the rape case; but things are not the same for him. The children are still afraid of him.
