Shelley in a promo pic from 1983
Shelley was one busy actress in the early 1980s. After Charlie's Angels, from 1980 to 1983, she worked on the Jack Heifner play Vanities, Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy with Robert De Niro, the play Born Yesterday, the Elizabeth Diggs play Close Ties, the TV movie Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer with George Segal, the TV movie Found Money (aka Max and Sam) with Dick Van Dyke and Sid Caesar and finally TV series Cutter to Houston, her second foray into series TV. 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. "We put in a minimum 12-hour day," Shelley said about her new TV series which she starred in alongside Jim Metzler and Alec Baldwin. "You end up feeling like a clam at your own clambake," she added. But she wasn't complaining. Her solid performance in The King of Comedy won her many new roles.
a writeup about Shelley from 1983
