Has anyone seen cult storylines on the other soaps?

[Bronson]

OLTL was the only one that I had seen with Mitch Laurence brainwashing his followers with drugged tea. They kept bringing him back like Dracula everytime it seemed liked they got rid of him.

Santa Barbara had a cult storyline but I have forgotten most of what the story was about.

[OLTLBoomer]

Oh Mitch Lawrence was a delight!

[taramartin]

Mitch Lawrence was very handsome and wicked.

[DallasGal]

YR had a character Ian Ward, he was the head of a cult.

[SusanDare]

I remember The Doctors had a cult storyline back in the early 80s - I believe the leader was played by David Canary, later Adam Chandler on AMC.

[LisaBowman]

Days had a cult a few years ago. Steve's son Joey was dating a girl named Jade and they went to her aunt's cult. It was the usual stereotyped cult style room with young people.The kids were told to steal. I believe Steve rescued them from the cult. Oh yeah, they had either a tattoo or a brand of a scorpion.

[FLPeaches]

Shank gives me Mitch Laurence vibes,
Mitch Laurence was the devil.......

[elj2014b]

Yeah, he was and I wasn't watching the show when his cult was front and center. I did see the s/l with his two resurrections, thoughl. LOL

[Clementine15]

He was really good! Wish we could see the actor again

[Anna74]

I only remember Mitch on OLTL. The commercials for that story line were so creepy and I try I decided to watch the show for the first time

[divamagenta]

The Leviathan storyline on Dark Shadows had a strong cultish vibe.

[MalteseBaby]

Here's a cult story with one degree of separation from " GH".. It has been alluded to in a post above, but the details are really interesting, I think.

Two of Y and R's actors with the longest time on the show started their SLs as teens with a cult SL. Nikki Reed ( Newman), played by Melody Thomas Scott,and Paul Williams, actor Doug Davidson were the main two teens in town who were drawn into the cult by the leader, Ian. It was a great SL, although I was a younger teen than they were and didn't understand a lot of what Ian was doing regarding Nikki. It took many people who loved her to get her out. Her life changed drastically for the better as she grew to adulthood and married Victor Newman, where she remains in her 60's now.
Paul is currently the police chief, so they overcame the initial damage done to them by Ian and his cult, New World Brotherhood, who was also a cult leader who preyed on very young women.

Ian was dormant and never mentioned for about 35 or so years after the initial cult story ended with Nikki leaving with the help of her friends and sister. In some very creative writing, he returned to Genoa City around 2012 or so for a new twist in the very old SL with Paul and Nikki. He's destroyed and gone now, thank goodness, but it was a huge twist and layer to the original SL which is one of Y and R's strong points. He introduced us to a new character with legacy parents, Dylan McAvoy, played by Steve Burton, and to Mariah Copeland, who was the stolen twin of Cassie Newman.

NOTE of interest, perhaps, to GH viewers: When Steve Burton left GH and played the part of Dylan McAvoy, he was the retconned " love child" of a teenaged Nikki and Paul.. His conception was tied into the New World Brotherhood and Ian Ward, who was sterile. He was adopted and didn't know Nikki and Paul were his bio parents and there were a lot of plot holes about how we saw Nikki on screen but she managed to give birth at around age 17 at some cult headquarters in the late 1970's, early 80's at the latest.

This is Dylan McAvoy's Y and R biography for the years Steve was missing from GH. It's tragic, sweet, and he was a very good man. As far as I know, he never hurt anyone.

https://www.soapcentral.com/yr/whoswho/dylan.php

Dylan was never recast; no clue what happened to him, really, except that he had to go into the wintness protection program. As far as I know, he's never been mentioned since he left, and Steve returned to GH where he belongs.

[Bronson]

Yes I forgot that YR did do a YR cult storyline.