screen captures of the opening credits
of Cutter To Houston, 1983
Shelley's second TV series was 1983's Cutter to Houston. The show was about three young doctors recruited to run a small hospital in the fictional rural town of Cutter, Texas. Shelley played Dr. Beth Gilbert, an ambitious surgeon on temporary assignment in Cutter. Jim Metzler played GP Dr. Andy Fenton, who grew up in Cutter and was glad to be back in the town that financed his medical education. Alec Baldwin played internist/ladies man Dr. Hal Wexler, who was getting through his probation. Other regular cast members included K Callan as Nurse Connie Buford, Susan Styles as Nurse Patty Alvarez and Noble Willingham as Mayor Warren Jarvis.
promo mats and screen caps
for the Cutter to Houston episode
"Race for Life," October 1983
Episode 4 was called "Race for Life" and was first aired on October 22, 1983. The guest stars included Arliss Howard as Q.T. Stoneham and Georgann Johnson as Mayor Warren’s wife Dorothy Jarvis. The plot went as follows:
Hal and the highway patrol pursue cross-country race driver Q.T. Stoneham who has put his life on the line by competing in a wild road race. He is seriously ill and may not live to reach the finish line. Meanwhile, the 30th wedding anniversary of Mayor Warren Jarvis and his wife Dorothy is overshadowed by her refusal to face her medical problem. She learns she has a tumor and ignores the diagnosis. Afraid to face the disease her mother eventually died of; she initially resists any surgery.
screen captures from the Cutter to Houston
episode "Race for Life,"
October 1983
