From Jan. 16, 1967--Episode # 2812
LISA (to TOM): . . .You didn't say much when you came back from Oakdale.
TOM: You didn't ask me anything.
LISA: Is there something you think I should know, Tom?
A BEAT (pause). He is hesitant.
TOM: I had a talk with Dad. I told him it was his fault we weren't a family. I told him what you--
LISA IS STARTLED.
NOTE: The above script excerpt is taken from Eileen Fulton's 1970 autobiographical book, How My World Turns.
As you can see in the above excerpt, Tom is already starting to feel alienated from his family because of his parents' divorce. Tom also has a hard time accepting his new stepmother, Sandy Wilson McGuire Hughes, who marries Bob during the 1966/67 season. Nancy is also slow to accept Sandy, insisting that she'll always see Lisa as her daughter-in-law.
Bob and Sandy's marriage has problems right from the beginning. One day, after Bob is offered an opportunity to take over a medical practice in Vermont, he and Sandy visit the offices. However, the offices are burned down in a fire and Sandy gets caught in the fire and suffers major burns. Sandy becomes so traumatized by the experience that she goes into a depression and has to be sent to a sanitarium.
In Sandy's absence, Penny Hughes Wade, now a widow following Neil's death in early 1967, becomes the new mother figure in Jimmy McGuire's life. Sandy's ex-husband, Roy McGuire, is moved by Penny's desire to be a mother to his son. Now that he has lost Sandy for good, Roy hopes to at least be a father figure to his young son, so he proposes to Penny, who accepts.
A friend of Ann and Bill Holmes, Joan Rogers, is Doug's latest patient at Memorial Hospital. When Doug finds out that Joan's tumor is malignant and incurable, he tries to keep the news from her and Ted to try to extend some hope. But when Joan's condition worsens and she is near death, Doug can't hide the truth much longer. When Joan dies, a grief-stricken Ted grabs Doug and shoves him hard against the wall. Doug suffers a severe head injury and soon dies.
Bill Holmes also dies in the early part of 1967, but not before coming clean with her daughter, Amanda, about the identity of her mother. Later, Amanda receives a letter from a lawyer confirming that Sara Fuller is her biological mother.
Speaking of Sara, she is now engaged to Donald Hughes, who was reluctant to commit himself to her until she expressed a willingness to give up her fashion boutique business to be a good wife to him. Nancy is all for the union. Amanda, however, is not. Amanda has also fallen in love with Donald and isn't about to give him up without a struggle.
So one day, most likely in early April, Amanda confronts Sara and tells her about the letter she got from her lawyer proving that she is her "love child." Amanda threatens to show the letter to Don and expose Sara as an adulteress unless she calls of the engagement. There is a chase, and then Sara takes a bad fall down a stairway and dies. Amanda is charged with murder, and later that spring a trial ensues.
June 1, 1967 (black and white copy of a color episode
-Commercials include Gleem, Ivory, Cheer, Joy, Pop and Fresh Pillsbury cakes, and Rit Liquid Dye.
Chris and Dick Martin are awaiting the verdict in the Amanda Holmes trial in the death of her mother, Sara Fuller. They wonder if Amanda went to see Sara that night out of jealousy over Donald. Judge Lowell and Claire await the verdict, and they wonder what will happen when Ellen tells Dan the truth about his parentage. David and Ellen prepare to tell Dan the truth, and they remember that David had told Betty he would never tell Dan that David and Betty were not his parents. We see Dan (now John Colenback) reading a paper about Amanda's trial. David, Ellen and Paul are together when Dan comes in and tells the other Stewarts about Amanda's parentage. Dan says that any woman who gives u her baby has ice in her veins, and that it should have been Sara Fuller on trial. Ellen is stunned, cries, and says she can never tell Dan the truth.
(This summary comes courtesy of Robert Wargo.)
Amanda is found not guilty.
Meanwhile, David and Ellen give birth to their first child, a daughter named Carol Ann, in the spring of 1967.
Newly widowed Claire Cassen starts seeing Dr. Michael Shea, a young doctor who worked with the late Dr. Cassen. Most of Claire's friends and relatives don't approve of the match because of the big age difference between the two. Furthermore, Judge Lowell checks into Michael's past and discovers that he was named a co-respondent in the divorce of one women, and that the woman's daughter committed suicide in the midst of the turmoil.
Michael proves to be a rather unfaithful lover to Claire, as he soon starts seeing the soon-to-be-divorced Lisa Eldridge on the side.
Dr. Shea's maneuverings in connection with the Steiner case lead to Bob resigning from Memorial Hospital under the threat of a malpractice lawsuit.
Meanwhile, Lisa and Michael's affair results in Lisa becoming pregnant with his child. As for Michael's increasingly neglected wife, Claire, she copes with her loneliness by starting to drink more and more. One day, a drunken Claire inadvertently mentions that Dan is the illegitimate child of Ellen and the late Dr. Tim Cole. This slip of the tongue would come back to haunt the Stewarts.
December 1, 1967 (black and white kinescope copy of a color broadcast
-Commercials include Niagara Spray Starch, Skippy Peanut Butter (w/ Bob Hastings), Nescafe, Phillips Milk of Magnesia (w/ Rita McLaughlin before she joined ATWT as Carol), Carnation Instant Breakfast, Friskies Cat Food, Cheer and Spic & Span.
Bob and Don are in the old Hughes kitchen, when Bob gets a house call to Lisa's. Pa comes in–he has something for Jimmy (Sandy's son), and hopes Sandy will be there for Christmas as well. Lisa is sick and Bob checks her out. Lisa doesn't want to go to the hospital–she's pregnant (with Michael Shea's child). Tom, born in 1960, is 15 years old! Chris and pa talk about Sandy–she's missing. Lisa is taken away in an ambulance. Dan is also in the ambulance. There was a long crawl at the end of this episode, including the following:
Written by Irna Phillips, Warren Swanson and John Boruff. Directed by Paul Lammers and Cort Steen. Producer: Lyle B. Hill. Cast Credits (in order): Nancy Hughes . . . Helen Wagner Chris Hughes . . . Don McLaughlin Penny Hughes McGuire . . . Rosemary Prinz Bob Hughes . . . Don Hastings Ellen Stewart . . . Patricia Bruder David Stewart . . . Henderson Forsythe Lisa . . . Eileen Fulton Grandpa Hughes . . . Santos Ortega Claire Shea . . . Barbara Berjer Paul Stewart . . . Steven Mines Dan Stewart . . . John Colenback Dick Martin . . . Edward Kemmer Dr. Michael Shea . . . Roy Shuman Roy McGuire . . . Konrad Matthei Susan Stewart . . . Jada Rowland Judge Lowell . . . William Johnstone Karen Adams . . . Doe Lang Tom Hughes . . . Paul O'Keefe
Lisa develops pneumonia and ends up giving birth to her baby by Michael prematurely. Lisa was only four months pregnant at the time of the birth.
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