Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on 18 March 1985. The following is a list of characters that appeared in the show in 2004, by order of first appearance. All characters were introduced by the shows executive producer Ric Pellizzeri. The 20th season of Neighbours began airing from 19 January 2004. the mother of Liljana Bishop made her debut in February, and her grandson, arrived later on in September. Ben Barrack also joined the cast as in February and the following month saw a new police officer arrive in the form of . The first two members of the Timmins family, and , arrived in March and November respectively. Joe Scully's brother made his first appearance in May. Corrupt cop, made her debut in June. Neighbours' first on-going lesbian character, joined in August and the following month saw Roger Neave join the cast as psychiatrist . Carmella Cammeniti's mother, , made her debut in November.