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 drives off to see Chris Sykes and finds him at the spot where the rape took place. She ask him into the car so he could help her with an experiment that could help is case. With a stopwatch, he is to time her drive from the crime scene to the phone he used to call his wife on the day of the rape. Jackie is an expert driver; she had a lot of driving experience while growing up. And she can drive really fast, which she does in order to quickly get to the spot where the phone is located. When they arrive across town where the phone is located, they check the time. There wasn't enough for him to have gotten there if Ann Pulaski stuck to the original time she testified to, instead of changing it during the trial. Meanwhile, Mike is getting ready for the opening of his new '50s-themed restaurant. The opening party is tonight; so he's stocking his kitchen. He's informed that the meat has arrived; and he goes over to check it out. As he's going thought the meat, he notices there are bullet holes and bullets in one of them. He is shocked and immediately talks to the delivery man who swears he knows nothing about the bullets.
