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 on temporary assignment who aspired to be a heart surgeon in Houston. Jim played Dr. Andy Fenton who grew up in Cutter and was glad to be home. And Alec played Dr. Hal Wexler sent on probation to Cutter for being a little too fast and free with his prescriptions. Originally dubbed as From Cutter to Houston, the "From" was dropped when the series started airing.
