I'm not sure if this would interest anybody, but I've written a synopsis of the first year of ATWT. It's more comprehensive than what you find in the history books so perhaps someone would enjoy reading this. I have other years too that I could post if there is interest. Enjoy!

 

-4/2/56 thru 4/30/56. Episodes #1-21. First month of show. Chris and Nancy have a 19th Anniversary party. Edith and Jim discuss her discomfort around the Hughes family and her desire for Jim to divorce Claire. Nancy is jealous of Edith and Penny’s relationship. Donald wants to marry Janice. Judge Lowell lets Jim know that he knows about him and Edith. Jim tells Chris he never wanted to be a lawyer and never loved Claire but was pressured into the career and marriage by Judge Lowell. Jim almost tells Chris about Edith. Penny accuses Nancy of wishing she had died instead of her sister Susan, who died a few years back in an accident diving off the high dive at the local swimming pool. The Hugheses don’t approve of Donald’s relationship with Janice because she’s older than he is. Ellen overhears Claire tell the Judge that there’s another woman in Jim’s life. Janice meets Don’s family. Judge Lowell pushes Jim to go back to Claire. Nancy tells Chris she thinks Edith might be in love with a married man. Pa agrees to leave the farm and go to live with Chris and Nancy. Nancy forbids Donald to see Janice. 

-5/1/56-5/17/56. Mrs. Turner tries to convince Janice that Donald is too young for her while Chris and Nancy try to convince Donald that Janice is too old for him. Donald agrees to go to college if Chris and Nancy will accept that he and Janice will be married in a year or two, but he says he doesn’t want to be a lawyer like Chris wants him to. Donald says that he saw Jim Lowell going into Aunt Edie’s apartment building while he and Janice were going out. Nancy gets suspicious but Chris doesn’t want to think about it. Jim asks Edith to wait another year until Ellen is away from home but Edith is fed up with Jim stringing her along and tells him she’s done. Jim agrees to move back home for Ellen’s sake. Nancy thinks Edith and Penny’s closeness could be because they both feel that their parents favored their siblings (Chris and Susan) over them. Nancy and Edith discuss John. Edith thinks he’s dead but Nancy says Chris thinks he’ll find him. 

-6/1/56-6/29/56. Pa moves in with Chris and Nancy. Judge Lowell has a mild heart attack. Jim rushes over to the Judge’s house to find Dr. Doug Cassen taking care of him. Thinking he might be dying, the Judge asks Jim to make Chris a junior partner in the law firm and tries to make Jim promise to be a husband to Claire. Jim admits to Claire he feels nothing for his father. Chris is hesitant to take the position the Judge is offering him because he feels that the Judge is using his illness to snub Jim and take away some of his power. Claire tells Doug, the family doctor, that, even though Jim is living back home, they are not living as husband and wife. Doug can’t understand what’s wrong with Jim and Claire says it’s because he must be in love with another woman. All of the Hughes family is elated to learn that Chris has been made a partner at Lowell, Barnes, Lowell and (now) Hughes except for a bitter Edith. Chris continues to feel guilty about Edith and thinks he can give her more money with the advance in salary he will be getting. Nancy thinks his sense of responsibility is ridiculous. Chris and Edith get into an argument when Chris makes his offer to help her financially. Judge Lowell tells Doug that Jim is having an affair with Edith Hughes. Penny is interested in a guy at school, Jeff Baker, and Donald and Nancy both don’t want her seeing him because of his bad reputation. Penny is furious. Chris has hired someone who has found his brother John. Chris and Nancy are shocked to find out that John is still alive and in jail on the west coast. Edith tells Penny not to put her on a pedestal. Chris, Nancy, Pa, Penny, Bob, Edith, Janice, Jim, Claire and Ellen celebrate Donald’s graduation from high school. Jim and Edith try to act cool with each other so the others can’t tell what’s going on between them. Donald gives the valedictorian speech. Edith defends the fellow underdog, Janice, when Nancy says she’d rather have Donald get with Ellen because they’re from similar backgrounds. Edith accuses Nancy of being a snob. Pa knows about Jim and Edith. Edith thinks Chris and Nancy favor Don over Penny the same way Pa and Ma Hughes favored Chris over her.

-7/2/56-7/31/56. Nancy is away visiting her sister in Kansas City while she is undergoing surgery and Bob is at summer camp. Talking to Chris, Pa observes generational similarities in the family and how Bob is like John, Susan was like Nancy, Penny is like Edith and Donald is like Chris. Pa tells Jim that he wants Edith to get married which makes Jim feel guilty. Jim tells Chris that he’ll always be in love with “the other woman” though Chris doesn’t know he’s talking about Edith. Working at Lowell, Barnes and Lowell as a messenger boy for the summer, Donald is starting to think about being a lawyer. Chris is concerned that Don is getting too materialistic, Nancy is just happy that this could be the end of Don and Janice. Chris lets Jim know that John is in prison for attempted murder but he’s keeping the news from Edith. Nancy thinks Chris should forget about John but Chris can’t let it go and plans a trip out west to see him. Pa is shocked to hear Edith brazenly say that she’s going to get Jim Lowell no matter what.

-8/1/56-8/31/56. Claire has been having headaches and Ellen starts to notice that she’s not looking well. Doug gives Claire a check up and tells her that she’s physically fine and that he thinks the headaches are from tension. He tells Jim that Claire is headed for a nervous breakdown but Jim is dubious. Chris comes back from San Francisco and lets Pa and Nancy know that his visit with John in prison was depressing and disappointing. Nancy is pleased when Chris says he’s decided it’s not good to have contact with John while he’s still in prison. Chris and Nancy are horrified when Pa says he wants to go out to visit John. Judge Lowell lets a shocked Chris know that Jim and Edith are having an affair. The Judge wants Chris to try to talk Edith into transferring to San Francisco to get away from Jim. Edith is adamantly opposed at first but then reconsiders. Donald tells his disappointed parents that he is buying Janice an engagement ring. The Judge makes vague insinuations that Edith remaining in Oakdale with Jim could jeopardize Chris’ job at the law firm. The Judge threatens to talk to Edith. Ellen is lovesick over Don. Don and Janice become officially engaged.

-9/1/56-9/27/56. Claire’s headaches get worse and more frequent. Doug thinks it’s just stress, Claire thinks it’s a brain tumor and Jim thinks Claire is a hypochondriac. Edith tells Chris that she’s turning down the job offer in San Francisco. Chris, Nancy and Mrs. Turner are all very upset when Janice shows them her engagement ring. Claire begins to suspect Edith is the other woman. Things get tense as Chris, Nancy, Edith, Jim and Claire gather for Labor Day. Pa tells Edith that Claire is on to her. The Lowells have dinner together at the Judge’s house. While looking at the portrait of Alice Lowell, the Judge’s late wife, Ellen notices a resemblance between her grandmother and Edith Hughes. Jim and Claire lay their cards on the table and Claire drops the bombshell that she knows he is having an affair with Edith Hughes. Nancy is also shocked when Chris tells her about Jim and Edith. As the truth has gotten out, bit by bit, the only ones who don’t know the big secret are the kids. Donald walks Ellen home from the Hughes and they find Claire passed out on the couch. Unable to rouse her, they call an ambulance and she’s rushed to the hospital.

-10/1/56-10/31/56. Claire has had her stomach pumped after an overdose of sleeping pills. The Judge thinks Claire’s overdose was just an accident. Jim and Edith think Claire purposely overdosed in an attempt to manipulate Jim into staying with her. Jim and Doug don’t want Claire to know it was Ellen who found her. Pa is outraged at Edith’s disregard for Claire. Doug tells Jim that Claire is severely depressed and has selective amnesia and Jim should consider staying with her for her emotional well-being. Claire tries to assure Ellen that she didn’t try to commit suicide and Ellen lets it slip that she’s the one who found Claire unconscious. Jim accuses Claire of deliberately overdosing to get a reaction from everybody which makes Claire uncharacteristically furious. Judge Lowell goes to meet Edith and tries to get her to leave his son alone. They argue and Edith tells the Judge that his son hates him. He lets Edith know that Chris is aware that she is the other woman in the process. A furious Edith lashes out at Chris for not being straightforward with her and trying to get her to move to San Francisco under false pretenses. Chris fights back, accusing Edith of taking out her feelings of guilt onto him. Pa lets Chris and Nancy know that he knows about Jim and Edith. Nancy wants to break up Edith and Penny’s relationship. Nancy and Penny fight when Jeff calls Penny. Nancy forbids Penny to talk to him and frets to Chris that she’s afraid Penny will turn out like Edith because they’re so similar. Penny throws a Halloween party at the Hughes and invites Edith. Claire makes it a point to come to the party when she learns Edith will be there.

-11/1/56-11/30/56. Claire and Edith have a verbal catfight when they’re alone together at the Halloween party. Claire vows to Edith that she’ll never give Jim a divorce. Ellen, worried about her mother’s strange behavior, asks Doug what’s wrong with her. Doug lets her know Claire is suffering from depression and Ellen begs him to tell her why. Jim’s plan to move out of his house with Claire is stopped by news of Claire’s mental breakdown. Chris, Nancy and Mrs. Turner have dinner together. All of them want Don and Janice to break up but Chris says they shouldn’t interfere which Nancy vehemently disagrees with. Donald notes to Penny that a worried Ellen, who has been brought into the reality of her mother’s emotional state, seems much more mature all of a sudden. Jim and Ellen both fret over Claire as her nervous breakdown gets worse. Jim feels trapped as Chris encourages him to stay with Claire because of her mental illness. On Thanksgiving, Chris sees the sharp contrast between the happy Hughes home and the depressing Lowell home when he goes to the Lowell’s for  a visit. Jim is absent and presumed to be at Edith’s, Claire is unresponsive from her depressive breakdown and the Judge and Ellen are disturbed by the family’s situation. Donald, visiting his Aunt Edith at her apartment, is surprised when Jim stops by but then Don starts to figure things out. A defeated Jim breaks things off with Edith and encourages her to find another man. Penny defies her mother and accepts a date with Jeff Baker.  Ellen and Donald warn her not to go out with him. 

-12/3/56-12/31/56. Penny is furious when Nancy forbids her to go to a school dance with Jeff. Without naming Edith, Jim admits to Ellen that there was another woman but it’s over now. Edith blasts Nancy to Pa and says her judgemental, holier-than-thou attitude is going to drive Penny away. Jeff Baker’s first episode as he calls Chris asking to meet with him and Nancy so they can get to know each other. Claire begins therapy with her psychiatrist, Dr. Snyder. Jeff comes over to meet Chris and Nancy and Penny’s feelings for Jeff have become more ambiguous now that her parents are more accepting of Jeff. She’s worried about her reputation if she goes out with Jeff, who already has a bad reputation. Donald and Janice because Donald doesn’t want Janice hanging out with his Aunt Edith. Janice thinks it’s because Donald thinks Edith is too good for Janice but it’s the other way around though Don doesn’t tell her what he knows. Janice defies Donald and has dinner with Edith, who tells Janice the truth about what Don knows. Wanting Ellen to not have anything to do with the Hughes, Claire forbids Ellen to see her best friend Penny. On the show’s first Christmas Eve, the  Hughes family trim the tree and get ready for midnight church service, Edith drops by and tells them she’s not coming for Christmas. Ellen asks Jim what Claire has against the Hugheses. On the first Christmas, Claire is depressed and doesn’t want to go to the Judge’s for Christmas dinner. Jim goes over to the Hugheses to spend time with Chris, Nancy and Pa. Claire is obsessively afraid that Ellen will get romantically involved with Donald even though a bewildered Ellen assures her there’s no chance of that happening. Donald and Janice’s differences become more glaring and threaten the future of their relationship. Jim spends New Year’s Eve with Claire and Edith spends it alone, both wishing they could be with each other. After the stroke of midnight, Chris and Nancy reflect on the events of 1956 and wonder what 1957 holds in store.

 

 

Edited October 5Oct 5 by Reverend Ruthledge

Excellent work. We need documents like this for every year of every classic soap.

Even the official history books, authorized by P&G and the networks, skimp on details, and many facts are glossed over or missing. Even worse, a lot of the "information" they provide is simply inaccurate.

You should do summaries like this for every year of every serial you enjoy and find worthwhile.

Collect everything together and publish it (even self-publish it!) in a book.

Soap historians would be ecstatic.🙂

Thank you. I appreciate that. I just don't know if the interest is out there. 

Wow! Thank you so much @Reverend Ruthledge! This is great!! 

Thank you for posting this.  It is so interesting to get this much detail about the early plot lines of the show. 

 

 

7 hours ago, Reverend Ruthledge said:

Thank you. I appreciate that. I just don't know if the interest is out there. 

It's been my experience that many dedicated soap fans enjoy learning about the history of their shows.

Every time I began watching a series which I had not followed from the very start, I did everything I could to acquaint myself with its past and discover as much information as I could. It adds so much to the enjoyment of the show as a whole.

 

19 hours ago, Tisy-Lish said:

Thank you for posting this.  It is so interesting to get this much detail about the early plot lines of the show. 

 

 

You're very welcome. Please feel free to post any observations or questions. I'm dying to be able to talk about the glory days of the soaps with people. Even on these cancelled soap threads, most people just want to talk about the final years of the shows. I get it. People can't talk about what they don't know about. But it's frustrating for me. I'd love to be able to deconstruct the golden years of these shows with people like they do with the latter years. 

This is really interesting and it looks like they had a solid and well plotted first year. It's interesting to get so much detail from years we will likely never be able to see. Makes me wish they could've anticipated streaming because I'd *love* to watch this year.

I love it!!! Wonderful!!!! Thank you!!!

On 9/27/2025 at 6:35 PM, Reverend Ruthledge said:

I'm not sure if this would interest anybody, but I've written a synopsis of the first year of ATWT. It's more comprehensive than what you find in the history books so perhaps someone would enjoy reading this. I have other years too that I could post if there is interest. Enjoy!

 

-4/2/56 thru 4/30/56. Episodes #1-21. First month of show. Chris and Nancy have a 19th Anniversary party. Edith and Jim discuss her discomfort around the Hughes family and her desire for Jim to divorce Claire. Nancy is jealous of Edith and Penny’s relationship. Donald wants to marry Janice. Judge Lowell lets Jim know that he knows about him and Edith. Jim tells Chris he never wanted to be a lawyer and never loved Claire but was pressured into the career and marriage by Judge Lowell. Jim almost tells Chris about Edith. Penny accuses Nancy of wishing she had died instead of her sister Susan, who died a few years back in an accident diving off the high dive at the local swimming pool. The Hugheses don’t approve of Donald’s relationship with Janice because she’s older than he is. Ellen overhears Claire tell the Judge that there’s another woman in Jim’s life. Janice meets Don’s family. Judge Lowell pushes Jim to go back to Claire. Nancy tells Chris she thinks Edith might be in love with a married man. Pa agrees to leave the farm and go to live with Chris and Nancy. Nancy forbids Donald to see Janice. 

-5/1/56-5/17/56. Mrs. Turner tries to convince Janice that Donald is too young for her while Chris and Nancy try to convince Donald that Janice is too old for him. Donald agrees to go to college if Chris and Nancy will accept that he and Janice will be married in a year or two, but he says he doesn’t want to be a lawyer like Chris wants him to. Donald says that he saw Jim Lowell going into Aunt Edie’s apartment building while he and Janice were going out. Nancy gets suspicious but Chris doesn’t want to think about it. Jim asks Edith to wait another year until Ellen is away from home but Edith is fed up with Jim stringing her along and tells him she’s done. Jim agrees to move back home for Ellen’s sake. Nancy thinks Edith and Penny’s closeness could be because they both feel that their parents favored their siblings (Chris and Susan) over them. Nancy and Edith discuss John. Edith thinks he’s dead but Nancy says Chris thinks he’ll find him. 

-6/1/56-6/29/56. Pa moves in with Chris and Nancy. Judge Lowell has a mild heart attack. Jim rushes over to the Judge’s house to find Dr. Doug Cassen taking care of him. Thinking he might be dying, the Judge asks Jim to make Chris a junior partner in the law firm and tries to make Jim promise to be a husband to Claire. Jim admits to Claire he feels nothing for his father. Chris is hesitant to take the position the Judge is offering him because he feels that the Judge is using his illness to snub Jim and take away some of his power. Claire tells Doug, the family doctor, that, even though Jim is living back home, they are not living as husband and wife. Doug can’t understand what’s wrong with Jim and Claire says it’s because he must be in love with another woman. All of the Hughes family is elated to learn that Chris has been made a partner at Lowell, Barnes, Lowell and (now) Hughes except for a bitter Edith. Chris continues to feel guilty about Edith and thinks he can give her more money with the advance in salary he will be getting. Nancy thinks his sense of responsibility is ridiculous. Chris and Edith get into an argument when Chris makes his offer to help her financially. Judge Lowell tells Doug that Jim is having an affair with Edith Hughes. Penny is interested in a guy at school, Jeff Baker, and Donald and Nancy both don’t want her seeing him because of his bad reputation. Penny is furious. Chris has hired someone who has found his brother John. Chris and Nancy are shocked to find out that John is still alive and in jail on the west coast. Edith tells Penny not to put her on a pedestal. Chris, Nancy, Pa, Penny, Bob, Edith, Janice, Jim, Claire and Ellen celebrate Donald’s graduation from high school. Jim and Edith try to act cool with each other so the others can’t tell what’s going on between them. Donald gives the valedictorian speech. Edith defends the fellow underdog, Janice, when Nancy says she’d rather have Donald get with Ellen because they’re from similar backgrounds. Edith accuses Nancy of being a snob. Pa knows about Jim and Edith. Edith thinks Chris and Nancy favor Don over Penny the same way Pa and Ma Hughes favored Chris over her.

-7/2/56-7/31/56. Nancy is away visiting her sister in Kansas City while she is undergoing surgery and Bob is at summer camp. Talking to Chris, Pa observes generational similarities in the family and how Bob is like John, Susan was like Nancy, Penny is like Edith and Donald is like Chris. Pa tells Jim that he wants Edith to get married which makes Jim feel guilty. Jim tells Chris that he’ll always be in love with “the other woman” though Chris doesn’t know he’s talking about Edith. Working at Lowell, Barnes and Lowell as a messenger boy for the summer, Donald is starting to think about being a lawyer. Chris is concerned that Don is getting too materialistic, Nancy is just happy that this could be the end of Don and Janice. Chris lets Jim know that John is in prison for attempted murder but he’s keeping the news from Edith. Nancy thinks Chris should forget about John but Chris can’t let it go and plans a trip out west to see him. Pa is shocked to hear Edith brazenly say that she’s going to get Jim Lowell no matter what.

-8/1/56-8/31/56. Claire has been having headaches and Ellen starts to notice that she’s not looking well. Doug gives Claire a check up and tells her that she’s physically fine and that he thinks the headaches are from tension. He tells Jim that Claire is headed for a nervous breakdown but Jim is dubious. Chris comes back from San Francisco and lets Pa and Nancy know that his visit with John in prison was depressing and disappointing. Nancy is pleased when Chris says he’s decided it’s not good to have contact with John while he’s still in prison. Chris and Nancy are horrified when Pa says he wants to go out to visit John. Judge Lowell lets a shocked Chris know that Jim and Edith are having an affair. The Judge wants Chris to try to talk Edith into transferring to San Francisco to get away from Jim. Edith is adamantly opposed at first but then reconsiders. Donald tells his disappointed parents that he is buying Janice an engagement ring. The Judge makes vague insinuations that Edith remaining in Oakdale with Jim could jeopardize Chris’ job at the law firm. The Judge threatens to talk to Edith. Ellen is lovesick over Don. Don and Janice become officially engaged.

-9/1/56-9/27/56. Claire’s headaches get worse and more frequent. Doug thinks it’s just stress, Claire thinks it’s a brain tumor and Jim thinks Claire is a hypochondriac. Edith tells Chris that she’s turning down the job offer in San Francisco. Chris, Nancy and Mrs. Turner are all very upset when Janice shows them her engagement ring. Claire begins to suspect Edith is the other woman. Things get tense as Chris, Nancy, Edith, Jim and Claire gather for Labor Day. Pa tells Edith that Claire is on to her. The Lowells have dinner together at the Judge’s house. While looking at the portrait of Alice Lowell, the Judge’s late wife, Ellen notices a resemblance between her grandmother and Edith Hughes. Jim and Claire lay their cards on the table and Claire drops the bombshell that she knows he is having an affair with Edith Hughes. Nancy is also shocked when Chris tells her about Jim and Edith. As the truth has gotten out, bit by bit, the only ones who don’t know the big secret are the kids. Donald walks Ellen home from the Hughes and they find Claire passed out on the couch. Unable to rouse her, they call an ambulance and she’s rushed to the hospital.

-10/1/56-10/31/56. Claire has had her stomach pumped after an overdose of sleeping pills. The Judge thinks Claire’s overdose was just an accident. Jim and Edith think Claire purposely overdosed in an attempt to manipulate Jim into staying with her. Jim and Doug don’t want Claire to know it was Ellen who found her. Pa is outraged at Edith’s disregard for Claire. Doug tells Jim that Claire is severely depressed and has selective amnesia and Jim should consider staying with her for her emotional well-being. Claire tries to assure Ellen that she didn’t try to commit suicide and Ellen lets it slip that she’s the one who found Claire unconscious. Jim accuses Claire of deliberately overdosing to get a reaction from everybody which makes Claire uncharacteristically furious. Judge Lowell goes to meet Edith and tries to get her to leave his son alone. They argue and Edith tells the Judge that his son hates him. He lets Edith know that Chris is aware that she is the other woman in the process. A furious Edith lashes out at Chris for not being straightforward with her and trying to get her to move to San Francisco under false pretenses. Chris fights back, accusing Edith of taking out her feelings of guilt onto him. Pa lets Chris and Nancy know that he knows about Jim and Edith. Nancy wants to break up Edith and Penny’s relationship. Nancy and Penny fight when Jeff calls Penny. Nancy forbids Penny to talk to him and frets to Chris that she’s afraid Penny will turn out like Edith because they’re so similar. Penny throws a Halloween party at the Hughes and invites Edith. Claire makes it a point to come to the party when she learns Edith will be there.

-11/1/56-11/30/56. Claire and Edith have a verbal catfight when they’re alone together at the Halloween party. Claire vows to Edith that she’ll never give Jim a divorce. Ellen, worried about her mother’s strange behavior, asks Doug what’s wrong with her. Doug lets her know Claire is suffering from depression and Ellen begs him to tell her why. Jim’s plan to move out of his house with Claire is stopped by news of Claire’s mental breakdown. Chris, Nancy and Mrs. Turner have dinner together. All of them want Don and Janice to break up but Chris says they shouldn’t interfere which Nancy vehemently disagrees with. Donald notes to Penny that a worried Ellen, who has been brought into the reality of her mother’s emotional state, seems much more mature all of a sudden. Jim and Ellen both fret over Claire as her nervous breakdown gets worse. Jim feels trapped as Chris encourages him to stay with Claire because of her mental illness. On Thanksgiving, Chris sees the sharp contrast between the happy Hughes home and the depressing Lowell home when he goes to the Lowell’s for  a visit. Jim is absent and presumed to be at Edith’s, Claire is unresponsive from her depressive breakdown and the Judge and Ellen are disturbed by the family’s situation. Donald, visiting his Aunt Edith at her apartment, is surprised when Jim stops by but then Don starts to figure things out. A defeated Jim breaks things off with Edith and encourages her to find another man. Penny defies her mother and accepts a date with Jeff Baker.  Ellen and Donald warn her not to go out with him. 

-12/3/56-12/31/56. Penny is furious when Nancy forbids her to go to a school dance with Jeff. Without naming Edith, Jim admits to Ellen that there was another woman but it’s over now. Edith blasts Nancy to Pa and says her judgemental, holier-than-thou attitude is going to drive Penny away. Jeff Baker’s first episode as he calls Chris asking to meet with him and Nancy so they can get to know each other. Claire begins therapy with her psychiatrist, Dr. Snyder. Jeff comes over to meet Chris and Nancy and Penny’s feelings for Jeff have become more ambiguous now that her parents are more accepting of Jeff. She’s worried about her reputation if she goes out with Jeff, who already has a bad reputation. Donald and Janice because Donald doesn’t want Janice hanging out with his Aunt Edith. Janice thinks it’s because Donald thinks Edith is too good for Janice but it’s the other way around though Don doesn’t tell her what he knows. Janice defies Donald and has dinner with Edith, who tells Janice the truth about what Don knows. Wanting Ellen to not have anything to do with the Hughes, Claire forbids Ellen to see her best friend Penny. On the show’s first Christmas Eve, the  Hughes family trim the tree and get ready for midnight church service, Edith drops by and tells them she’s not coming for Christmas. Ellen asks Jim what Claire has against the Hugheses. On the first Christmas, Claire is depressed and doesn’t want to go to the Judge’s for Christmas dinner. Jim goes over to the Hugheses to spend time with Chris, Nancy and Pa. Claire is obsessively afraid that Ellen will get romantically involved with Donald even though a bewildered Ellen assures her there’s no chance of that happening. Donald and Janice’s differences become more glaring and threaten the future of their relationship. Jim spends New Year’s Eve with Claire and Edith spends it alone, both wishing they could be with each other. After the stroke of midnight, Chris and Nancy reflect on the events of 1956 and wonder what 1957 holds in store.

 

 

I love it. Thank u so much for posting it. It’s so appericiated.