michael (mike) shaw was a fictional character in uk soap opera "family affairs", played by tony o'callaghan from november 2003 until his death in june 2004 at the hands of lucy day. mike subsequently made several posthumous appearances; once in one of eileen callan's nightmares, on a video recording he'd left for eileen prior to his death, and in a whole week of episodes flashing back to his plot with eileen to frame pete callan for arson.