Dodger Savage
| Dodger Savage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hollyoaks character | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Danny Mac | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2011–2015, 2025–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 4 April 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Present; regular | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Paul Marquess (2011) Hannah Cheers (2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spin-off appearances | Hollyoaks Later (2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Crossover appearances | Brookside (2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Detective Inspector Mark "Dodger" Savage is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 serial drama, Hollyoaks, played by Danny Mac. He made his first on-screen appearance on 7 April 2011 and was introduced as part of the Savage family by creator Paul Marquess. Dodger is played as being a bit "cocky" and as thinking he has "got it all". For his portrayal, Mac has won and been nominated for various awards. In November 2014, Mac opted to leave the role and Dodger made his last appearance on 20 January 2015. Dodger is the biological son of Patrick Blake (Jeremy Sheffield) and Anna Blake (Saskia Wickham), the twin brother of Sienna Blake (Anna Passey), the adoptive son of Anna's husband Dirk Savage (David Kennedy), the half-brother of Will Savage (James Atherton), Liberty Savage (Abi Phillips) and Minnie Minniver and the father of Nico Blake (Persephone Swales-Dawson) and Myra-Pocahontas Savage-McQueen.
His storylines have included a relationship with Texas Longford (Bianca Hendrickse-Spendlove), discovering that Dirk is not his biological father, had a relationship with Theresa McQueen (Jorgie Porter) in which she gave birth to their daughter Myra-Pocahontas Savage-McQueen, discovering Patrick and Sienna are alive, a feud with Will, having a relationship with Patrick's wife Maxine Minniver (Nikki Sanderson), being involved in a train crash, discovering Sienna's daughter Nico Blake (Persephone Swales-Dawson) is also his daughter and fleeing the country after covering for Nico after she pushes Will off the roof of the hospital. Mac later reprised the role and Dodger returned in 2025. In September 2025 it was confirmed that Mac would also be appearing as Dodger in the upcoming Hollyoaks Later one-off special for the 30th during anniversary celebrations due to air in October of that year. Dodger appears in the Hollyoaks 30th anniversary celebrations with the main episode airing on 22 October 2025 seeing Dodger capture his serial killer father Jeremy Blake (Jeremy Sheffield) during an episode that also crossover with Brookside. The events of Hollyoaks Later followed and it kicked off a huge sexual assault storyline for Dodger.