When Jeff leaves town), Penny becomes pregnant but loses the baby.A live wedding and reception were broadcast, with on-air invitations at the end of the program for several days prior. Wells), arrives in Oakdale and names Ellen in their divorce proceedings. Tim Cole ( William Redfield), a married man, fall in love and have a child, James 'Jimmy' Cole, but she gives him up for adoption. Donald leaves and works for the DA and then at the Lowell firm. Donald works for Mitchell Dru ( Geoffrey Lum) on this show as well as two other serials, The Brighter Day and Another World).Penny becomes engaged to Tom Pope, but when she says she still loves Jeff, Tom breaks it off.Al James ( Donald Madden) and Jeff get in a fight over Penny, and Jeff is arrested after James dies.Penny is in love with Jeff Baker ( Mark Rydell) and elopes with him but it is annulled at Nancy's insistence.She breaks it off and marries Carl Whipple ( Rod Colbin). Donald becomes engaged to Janice Turner.Don and Nancy fall out over Janice because Nancy thinks Janice Turner isn't good enough for Donald.John Hughes (Lawrence Hugo), Chris' brother, marries a woman named Marion.Jim dies in a boating accident in Florida.

Claire English Lowell tries to keep husband Jim at her side by overdosing.Nancy visits her unseen sister Pearl, who lives away from Oakdale.Edith Hughes and a married man, Jim Lowell (Les Damon), have an affair.She also has allusions of her best friend, Ellen Cole (Wendy Drew), having a romance with her older brother Don. Penny puts her Aunt Edith ( Ruth Warrick) on a pedestal.Nancy's struggle to get over the death of her eldest unseen daughter, Susan, leads Penny ( Rosemary Prinz) to have feelings of inadequacy.Chris ( Don MacLaughlin) and Nancy ( Helen Wagner) debate as to whether his father (Will 'Pa' Hughes, played after the first episode by Santos Ortega) will live with them.Claire Lowell - Anne Burr McDermott (1956–71).Judge James Lowell - William Johnstone (1956–79).Janice Turner - Joyce Van Patten (1956–57, 1962).Grandpa William Hughes - William Lee (1956–76).Nancy Hughes - Helen Wagner (1956-2010).Christopher Hughes - Don MacLaughlin (1956–86).

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