Michael "Mike" Dixon is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, played by Paul Byatt.
"[3] Mike is characterised as a "streetwise but likeable youth" with a keen interest in music and forming his own band.
[2] Byatt told Geoff Tibbals, author of Brookside The First 10 Years, that Mike "was ok and next to someone like Sinnott, he appeared an angel.
Mike's wayward behaviour included stealing from his father's shop till and taking a dead man's war medals.
The actor believed Mike "hasn't a clue about money" and that is the cause of his credit card debt problems.
[2] In the book Brookside The Early Years, Byatt told Tibbals that writers had changed Mike to become wiser than his father.
"[4] A writer from the official Brookside website wrote that Mike "didn't waste anytime in ruffling the neighbours' feathers" upon his arrival.
[5] In the book 20 Years of Brookside, author Graham Kibble-White described Mike as "one of life's losers with a succession of dead end jobs and constant money worries.
She is already married to Gary Stanlow (Andrew Fillis), a drug dealer who neglects Lindsey in favour of his crime business.
Byatt told Inside Soap's Jon Peake that Mike "really loves" Lindsey and is "very optimistic" about their relationship.
When Ron and his partner Bev McLoughlin (Sarah White) go away on holiday, Mike moves Lindsey and Kylie into the Dixon family home.
When Lindsey's mother Jackie Corkhill (Sue Jenkins) discovers that Gary has got Jimmy embroiled in his drug dealing business she leave him.
The scenes were not scheduled to be filmed at Bangkok airport and researchers could not find any photos of the interior or information in aviation magazines.
[11] Producers contacted the managing director of the Airport Authority of Thailand for help, who provided them with photographs, brochures and newsletters to help them recreate the setting.
[9] The pair spend months in the Thai prison system but Jackie's campaign does result in Kylie being returned to the United Kingdom.
[12] The pair then enlist the help of neighbour David Crosbie (John Burgess) and their local member of parliament and travel to London.
[7] Writers then created another affair story for Mike and his older married neighbour Bel Simpson (Lesley Nightingale).
Mike discusses their affair with Ben O'Leary (Simon Paul), which upsets Bel who wants to keep it a secret from Ollie.
He concluded "I'm pleased he's got that silly idea of the book out of his head and he's getting out and about and up to mischief, after all the stuff he's been through over the last year, with Bangkok and Lindsey, he deserves to have a good time.
"[13] He is the eldest son of Ron (Vince Earl) and "DD" Dixon (Irene Mariot), and the brother of Tony (Gerald Bostock, later Mark Lennock) and Jacqui (Alexandra Fletcher).
Mike was involved in two major storylines in 1993, the most significant of which was his relationship with stepmother Bev McLoughlin (Sarah White) that resulted in the birth of their son Josh, who was originally believed to have been his brother.
1993 was also the year that Mike's younger brother Tony (then played by Gerald Bostock) was left in a coma after a car crash which claimed the life of neighbour Frank Rogers (Peter Christian) in November.
In 2003, Frances Traynor from the Daily Record named the Mike and Lindsey being arrested for drug trafficking in Thailand one of Brookside's "most controversial plotlines".