ATWT 1957 Storyline
Source for January 2 to April 19, 1957 ATWT synopses:
- *TV Guide, Volume 5, issues 1-15 (Dec. 29, 1956-Jan. 4, 1957 issue through April 13-19, 1957 issue).
Note: As the World Turns was preempted on Tuesday, January 1.
- Jan.2: Dr. Snyder talks to Claire about love.
- Jan 3: Edie meets Jim for a celebration.
- Jan 4: Penny and Ellen are disturbed
- Jan. 7: Don tells Janice that he'll live on campus.
- Jan. 8: Janice confides in Edith.
- Jan. 9: Dr. Snyder discovers what's wrong with Claire.
- Jan. 10: Ellen has dinner at the Hughes's'.
- Jan. 11: Janice tells Don her decision.
- Jan. 14: Claire makes Ellen uncomfortable.
- Jan. 15: Don shows Chris the ring Janice returned.
- Jan. 16: Claire and Dr. Snyder make some progress.
- Jan. 17: Edith refuses the date Chris arranged.
- Jan. 18: Claire forces Ellen into a trip to California.
Note: As the World Turns was preempted on Monday, January 21 for President Eisenhower's inauguration.
- Jan. 22: Claire decides to take a trip.
- Jan. 23: No episode information available.
- Jan. 24: Claire wonders about her decision.
- Jan. 25: Penny and Ellen receive a surprise.
- Jan. 28: Edith has a talk with Chris.
- Jan. 29: Ellen and Judge Lowell discuss Edith.
- Jan. 30: Jeff tells Ellen the truth.
- Jan. 31: Penny asks her aunt a question.
- Feb. 1: Edith pays a visit to Jim's office.
- Feb. 4: Ellen overhears a conversation between Jim and Edie.
- Feb. 5: Ellen tells her father a lie.
- Feb. 6: No episode information available.
- Feb. 7: Jeff and Penny have an argument.
- Feb. 8: Ellen gets angry with her father.
- Feb. 11: Penny wonders why Ellen is so angry.
- Feb. 12: Ellen tells her father what she overheard.
- Feb. 13: Ellen makes an unfortunate decision.
- Feb. 14: Ellen tells Penny about her aunt.
- Feb. 15: Penny's life is filled with confusion.
- Feb. 18: Jim talks to his father about Ellen.
- Feb. 19: The Lowell's and Hugheses reach an incorrect conclusion about Ellen's health.
- Feb. 20: Jim discovers his daughter's hate.
- Feb. 21: Claire has a serious talk with Jim.
- Feb. 22: Penny is alienated from her family.
- Feb. 25: Edie learns what's troubling Penny.
- Feb. 26: Chris tells Edith that their brother, John, will be released from jail very soon.
- Feb. 27: Claire is on the road to recovery.
- Feb. 28: Edith and Jim talk about their future.
- March 1: Janice Turner returns from Florida.
- March 4: Ellen decides to get even with Don.
- March 5: Ellen makes plans to go away.
- March 6: Claire begins to understand her illness.
- March 7: Ellen and Penny make up.
- March 8: Penny has an argument with Aunt Edith.
- March 11: Penny has an argument with her mother.
- March 12: Chris and Nancy have a disagreement.
- March 13: Claire has a talk with Dr. Snyder.
- March 14: Edith pays a visit to the Lowells.
- March 15: Claire talks openly about the divorce.
- March 18: Edith tells Jim she is leaving.
- March 19: Edith causes more trouble for the Hughes family.
- March 20: Jim asks Dr. Snyder some questions.
- March 21: Claire can't get Ellen to believe her.
- March 22: Claire tells Jim she wants a divorce.
- March 25: Ellen tries to rule her family.
- March 26: Edith's anger brings a terrible reaction from Judge Lowell.
- March 27: Chris learns Edith is responsible for Judge Lowell's illness.
- March 28: Jim learns Edith's part in his father's illness.
- March 29: Claire refuses to allow Judge Lowell to interfere.
- April 1: No episode information available.
- April 2: Nancy doesn't want another problem.
- April 3: Jim and his father reach a new understanding.
- April 4: Janice Turner has some good news.
- April 5: The Hugheses' anniversary causes a quarrel.
- April 8: Edith and Chris worry about their brother.
- April 9: Janice Turner has doubts about her forthcoming marriage.
- April 10: Grandpa tries to reconcile Edith and Penny.
- April 11: Chris is concerned about John's threats.
- April 12: Ellen uses her grandfather in an attempt to keep the family together.
- April 15: Janice tells Carl about her misgivings.
- April 16: Janice makes her wedding plans.
- April 17: Edith comes to Jim for help.
- April 18: Ellen schemes against her parents.
- April 19: John Hughes is headed for trouble.
In the intervening months, Janice Turner married Carl Whipple and left Oakdale, and Jim Lowell went on a vacation to Florida to wait out his divorce from Claire. During that vacation, Jim died in a boating accident.
Penny Hughes graduated from high school that June and continued to date Jeff Baker, despite Nancy's objections.
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Synopses from late July and Early August of 1957 as taken from Raymond William Stedman's book, The Serials.
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