Cutter to Houston

*Cutter to Houston*
Cutter to Houston
	Alec Baldwin, Shelley Hack, and Jim Metzler
Genre	Medical drama
Created by	Sandor Stern
Written by	Rick Edelstein; Larry Mollin; Sandor Stern
Directed by	Richard Michaels
Starring	Shelley Hack; Jim Metzler; Alec Baldwin
Composers	Dennis McCarthy; J.A.C. Redford
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	9 (2 unaired)
Production
Executive producer	Gerald W. Abrams
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	45–48 minutes
Production companies	Cypress Point Productions; MGM/UA Television
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	October 1 –; December 31, 1983

Cutter to Houston is an American medical drama starring Shelley Hack, Jim Metzler, and Alec Baldwin that aired on CBS on Saturday night from October 1 to December 31, 1983 at 8 p.m Eastern time. The series was created by Sandor Stern.

Synopsis

Cutter to Houston is set at Cutter Community Hospital in the small town of Cutter, Texas, sixty miles from Houston. The series stars Shelley Hack as surgeon Dr. Beth Gilbert, Jim Metzler as Dr. Andy Fenton, and Alec Baldwin as Dr. Hal Wexler, a GP under probation for writing illegal prescriptions.^[1]

Cutter to Houston aired on Saturdays at 8:00 PM Eastern. Due to low ratings, it was canceled after seven episodes and was replaced by Whiz Kids.

Cast

Jim Metzler as Dr. Andy Fenton
Shelley Hack as Dr. Beth Gilbert
Alec Baldwin as Dr. Hal Wexler
K Callan as Connie Buford
Noble Willingham as Mayor Warren Jarvis
Susan Styles as Nurse Patty Alvarez

Notable guest appearance

In a 1983 episode, Chad Allen, then 9 years of age, "played a kid who got hurt and had to be given mouth-to-mouth and carried to the waiting chopper by Dr. Hal Wexler." Years later, Chad reminisced that "I thought it was the greatest job I had ever gotten," because Alec Baldwin was Dr. Wexler.^[2]

Episodes

Episode #	Episode title	Original airdate
1-1	Pilot	October 1, 1983
1-2	"In the Eye of the Hurricane"	October 8, 1983
1-3	"From the Smallest Crystal, From the Smallest Stone"	October 15, 1983
1-4	"It Ain't Braggin' If You Done It"	December 10, 1983
1-5	"Race for Life"	December 17, 1983
1-6	"Tell Me a Riddle, Daddy"	December 24, 1983
1-7	"The Life You Save"	December 31, 1983
1-8	"Don't Look for Zebras"	Never aired
1-9	"The Very Best of Friends"	Never aired

References

^ Paietta, Ann Catherine; Kauppila, Jean L. (1999). Health Professionals On Screen. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 326. ISBN 0-8108-3636-X.
^ When I Knew (2005), ISBN 0-06-057146-2

External links

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[1] Paietta, Ann Catherine; Kauppila, Jean L. (1999). Health Professionals On Screen. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 326. ISBN 0-8108-3636-X.

[2] When I Knew (2005), ISBN 0-06-057146-2

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