History of As the World Turns (1961-1965)
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1956-1960 |
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This article is about the history of As the World Turns (ATWT), the second longest-running American television soap opera.
[edit] Storylines
- Ellen Lowell realizes that Dan Stewart is really her son Jimmy.
- Jeff Baker is a piano player under the name, Jack Bailey.
- Penny Hughes and Greg Williams make plans for a date.
- Jeff begs Penny to take him back.
- Janice Whipple returns to town with daughters Alice and Debbie. Donald Hughes then marries her.
- Lisa Hughes gives birth to Thomas Christopher Hughes.
- Claire becomes attracted to Bill Abbott and when they kiss and a car hits them Doug Cassen gets mad and Bill leaves town.
- Ellen Cole becomes engaged to Jim Norman but when he hears her story he leaves her and leaves town.
- Jeff Baker gets killed in a car crash while Penny Hughes is in a coma and then has amnesia.
- Lisa Hughes has an affair with Bruce Elliot but he breaks it off.
- Lisa Hughes becomes pregnant but miscarries and divorces Bob Hughes.
- Bob Hughes gets with Sylvia Hill.
- Edna Rices husband died because Doug Cassen didn't get a message on time.
- Janice and Donald Hughes leave to go to Texas.
- Neil Wade comes to town and meets Penny Hughes. Neil was a doctor who couldn't save his dying father.
- Doug Cassen is revealed to be Neil Wades father. Judith Wade, his mother, married Frank Wade because she was pregnant.
- Doug offers Neil instead of Bob a job at Memorial.
- Lisa Hughes runs of with Tommy Hughes and puts him in military school but Chris and Bob Hughes bring him back.
- Franny Brennan wants to marry David Stewart.
- Penny Hughes and Neil Wade get married.
- Judith Wade and Jerry Stevens get married and leave town.
- James Lowell almost dies and Claire Cassen tells Doug Cassesn to stay away from Neil Wade.
- Neil Wade opens up a bookstore, Wade Book Shop.
- Away from Oakdale Janice Turner dies and Donald returns to town.
- Donald Hughes rekindles his old flame with Ellen Cole.
- Dan Stewart calls Ellen Cole mother.
- Lisa Hughes goes to look for Tommy and gets kidnapped.
- Bob Hughes and Sylvia Hill become engaged. She broke it off and later married Al Suker.
- The Holmes Family (Bill, Ann and their daughter, Amanda) comes to town.
- Amanda Holmes' mother is really Sarah Fuller.
- Ellen Cole and Donald Hughes get engaged but then David Stewart proposes to her.
- Dan Stewart gets together with Susan Burke.
- Lisa Hughes then moves to Chicago and married John Eldridge. She returns to town later that year. (Her story continues in Our Private World)
- Lisa Hughes was going to sue for custody of Tom and was going to tell Bob Hughes that she had married John Elridge, but when Tom didn't want to go Lisa Hughes came up to the Hughes door step demanding Tom but Penny kicked her out.
- Dr. Douglas Cassen dies after an angry patient pushes him into a wall and he suffers a blow to the head (1967).
[edit] Characters
The Hughes Family
Will "Pa" Hughes
- m.Ma Hughes
- c.Edith Hughes Frey
- m.George Frey
- a.Jim Lowell (RIP)
- c.John Hughes
- m.Marion
- c.Christopher Hughes
- m.Nancy Hughes
- c.Donald Hughes
- m.Janice Turner Whipple Hughes(RIP)
- c.Penny Hughes Baker
- m.Jeff Baker
- m.Neil Wade
- c.Bob Hughes
- m.Lisa Miller Hughes
- c.Susan Hughes (RIP}
- c.Donald Hughes
- m.Nancy Hughes
- c.Edith Hughes Frey
The Lowell Family
James T. Lowell
- m.Alice Lowell (RIP)
- c.Jim Lowell (RIP)
- m.Claire Lowell Cassen
- m.Doug Cassen
- a.Edith Hughes
- c.Ellen Lowell Cole
- m.Tim Cole
- c.James "Jimmy" Cole
- m.Tim Cole
- c.Ellen Lowell Cole
- m.Claire Lowell Cassen
- c.Jim Lowell (RIP)
Turner Family
Thelma Turner
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- c.Janice Turner Whipple Hughes (RIP)
- m.Carl Whipple
- c.Alice Whipple
- c.Debbie Whipple
- m.Donald Hughes
- m.Carl Whipple
- c.Janice Turner Whipple Hughes (RIP)
The Baker Family
Dick Baker
- m.Grace Baker
- c.Jeff Baker
- m.Penny Hughes Baker
- c.Jeff Baker
The Cole Family
Tim Cole
- m.Louise Cole
- m.Ellen Lowell Cole
- a.Donald Hughes
The Meadows Family
Joe Meadows
- m.Anne Meadows
The Miller Family
Henry Miller
- m.Alma Miller
- c.Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge
- m.Bob Hughes
- a.Bruce Elliot
- m.John Eldridge
- c.Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge
The Stewart Family
David Stewart
- m.Betty Stewart
- c.Paul Stewart
- c.Dan Stewart (adopted) {Birth Name: James "Jimmy" Cole}
The Rice Family
Ed Rice
- m.Edna Rice
- c.Carol Rice
The Wade Family
Judith Wade Stevens
- m.Frank Wade
- m.Jerry Stevens
- a.Doug Cassen
- c.Neil Wade
- m.Penny Hughes Baker Wade
- c.Neil Wade
The Suker Family
Al Suker
- m.Martha Suker
- m.Sylvia Hill Suker
- c.Helen Suker
The Holmes Family
Bill Holmes
- m.Ann Holmes
- a.Sara Fuller
- c.Amanda Holmes {AKA: Jennifer Roberts}
The Elliot Family
Bruce Elliot
- c.Lisa Miller Hughes
Linda Elliot
Other People
- Tom Pope, Penny's love interest
- Michell Dru, an attorney
- Greg Williams, a reporter
- Julie Spencer, an attorney who was Mitchell Dru's ward.
- Meg Blaine,
- Bill Abbott, Claire's lover
- Jim Norman, Ellen's fiancee
- Chuck Ryan, doctor who was with Mary Mitchell
- Mary Mitchell,Sylvias closet friend
- Franny Brennan, Stewarts housekeeper
- Susan Burke, Dan Stewarts girlfriend
