Shelley's second TV series was Cutter to Houston. It was about three young doctors with markedly different backgrounds and motives. Shelley, Jim Metzler and Alec Baldwin starred as three young doctors who ran a small hospital in the fictitious Texas small town called Cutter, 60 miles from Houston. When they ran into major medical problems that their local facility couldn't handle, they would contact the Texas Medical Center in Houston via a computer hookup - hence the title. Shelley played Dr. Beth Gilbert, an ambitious surgeon who aspired to be a heart surgeon in Houston. But while the series had great potential, the network decided to veer away from the series’ original direction. As a result, Cutter to Houston was canceled after only seven episodes with two finished episodes left un-aired. In spite of its short run, the series got good reviews.
