 A special live episode (_"Bill, The" (1984) {162 (#19.87)}_ (qv))  was broadcast on the 30 October 2003 to celebrate twenty years of  the show since the pilot  _"Storyboard" (1983) {Woodentop (#1.4)}_ (qv). In a shock move the  character of DC Juliet Becker (Rae Baker (qv)) was stabbed to  death by a drunken man (played by Charles Dale (II) (qv)), having  only been in the show for four months. On the 22 September 2005 a  second live episode (_"Bill, The" (1984) {349 (#21.76)}_ (qv)) was  shown to celebrate the 50th birthday of ITV, the network that  broadcasts the show. The storyline involved the armed siege of Sun  Hill police station by the distraught father (Stuart Laing (qv))  of a boy killed by a car thief.