The BEST episodes of Prisoner: Cell Block H season 8
Every episode of Prisoner: Cell Block H season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Prisoner: Cell Block H season 8!
The lives of women behind bars in a female prison.
#1 - Episode 597
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/13/1986
Gang war breaks out after the Conquerors' hut and bikes are destroyed. Nora's mutilated body is dumped in the prison grounds, accompanied by a note from the psychopath who killed her. Lexie's latest way of evading Lou's murderous advances is to escape.
#2 - Episode 590
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/1986
Lou and Alice knock Joan unconscious, intending to frame Rita for it. The women embark on a hunger strike, forcing Ann to resign as Governor. Jessie gets herself put inside to meet her long-lost daughter. Is Eve cracking up or is she just trying to fool everyone?
#3 - Episode 654
Season 8 - Episode 66 - Aired 8/21/1986
Joan grows increasingly suspicious of Wendy, and realises she told Ann about the tape recorder. Lorelei prepares for her custody hearing. The girls take advantage of the sports day to take revenge on Rodney and beat him up, under cover of a lot of mud. Ann and Dan go their separate ways. Kath's whereabouts are discovered by the cops.
#4 - Episode 632
Season 8 - Episode 44 - Aired 6/17/1986
Rita is gutted and becomes disillusioned when Merle knocks her out in a dispute stirred up by Kath and Janet. Rodney holds an aerobics class for the prisoners, which ends in him being made a fool of. Janet plays silly buggers and messes around with the video tapes in an attempt to get Rita's girls into trouble. Joan and Andrew have a talk and try to reach a new understanding. Tension flares up between the three trainees.
#5 - Episode 631
Season 8 - Episode 43 - Aired 6/12/1986
The women play with the video camera and make their movie, as Rodney remains hidden in a cell clad only in his underwear. Joan delivers a message to Rita from Parker, telling her that Bongo will be killed if she causes any more trouble. Merle plays dress-up, leading to fights with both Rodney and Rita. Joan tries to let Andrew down gently and begins looking for a place of her own. Roach's attitude to prison life deteriorates further.
#6 - Episode 630
Season 8 - Episode 42 - Aired 6/10/1986
Marty and his two new fellow trainees - Rodney Adams and Delia Stout - discover the highs and lows of working at Wentworth. The women plot to make the Freak pay for reading Nancy's diary and carry out a cunning plan to humiliate her - one that involves a bomb planted in the prison garden and an escape attempt...
#7 - Episode 629
Season 8 - Episode 41 - Aired 6/5/1986
Ann discovers the truth about Marty Jackson's odd behaviour. The girls try to get the robot - and the coke - back from Merle. Roach is growing further and further apart from Rita and her gang. In a bid to get back at Joan for reading Nancy's diary, the inmates go along with Nancy and Julie's plan to set the Freak up, with Kath inadvertantly helping them along.
#8 - Episode 627
Season 8 - Episode 39 - Aired 5/27/1986
Joan instructs Kath and Janet to ruin the wedding, resulting in them kidnapping Julie in her wedding dress and tying her up in the boiler room. They also set Rita and Alice up in a fight and make it look like they were to blame. Lexie recovers from her mishap with a stint in Maternity. Nancy and Julie cook up a plan to get back at Joan for reading the diary. Joan is forced to continue smuggling drugs into Wentworth.
#9 - Episode 623
Season 8 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/13/1986
Joan's house is burned down by the bikies at Rita's request, after which Rita and Alice dangle her off the roof of the prison. Incensed, Joan agrees to Mrs Ryan's request to get Julie's sentence extended. An old acquaintance of Joan's from Queensland is arrested and sent to Wentworth. Janet and Kath arrange a drugs drop and Meg suspects the women know something about the fire at Joan's place.
#10 - Episode 622
Season 8 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/8/1986
Joan is offered $10,000 by Mrs Ryan if she will agree to help get Julie's sentence extended. Roach and Ida find themselves behind bars for robbing the newsagency and Roach realises she saw Joan the night the Conquerors' bikes were burned. Rita plots her revenge on Joan for the fire and, subsequently, Slasher's death, by arranging a nasty surprise at her home. Kath says goodbye to her husband.
#11 - Episode 620
Season 8 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/1/1986
Jessie's life is in threat as she makes a final bid to ensnare Bassinger and put him behind bars. Bob announces he is leaving Wentworth in order to ensure Kath's safety. Kath tells Nancy that Rita and her friends better watch out - because now she has nothing to lose. Joan throws her weight around in the aftermath of her appointment as Deputy.
#12 - Episode 616
Season 8 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/17/1986
The hunt is on for the person who murdered Lou Kelly, and almost everyone in Wentworth - on both sides of the bars - is a suspect. Kath resolves to not let anyone push her around any more. Bongo plots to bust Rita out of jail and Steve's mother decides to tell Ann the truth about her son.
#13 - Episode 615
Season 8 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/15/1986
The women throw Joyce and Mervin a slap-up wedding breakfast, but the festivities are shattered with the news that Lou has been found murdered in solitary. Bob and Kath desperately try to keep their friendship a secret from everyone in Wentworth, as Kath is systematically bullied by the other prisoners.
#14 - Episode 614
Season 8 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/10/1986
Lots of bullying going on as Joan bullies Lou and everyone else bullies Kath. Janet tries to ingratiate herself with both Kath and Lou, telling Lou she knows something about Bob Moran that they can use against him. Rita tells the other girls that drugs are a no-no from now on, to their disgust and surprise.
#15 - Episode 613
Season 8 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/8/1986
Kath Maxwell looks set to have a hard time in Wentworth, as the women react angrily to the ""kid killer"". Rita has drugs smuggled into the prison in a remote-controlled car and throws a party, which ends in disaster after Steve flushes the dope down the loo and Rita knocks him out. Joan goes golfing.
#16 - Episode 607
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/18/1986
Lou knocks out her guard and escapes from hospital dressed as a nurse, hitching a ride with a passing truckie. Back at Wentworth, it looks like Rita is to be blamed for slashing Lou's wrists, despite the girls' attempts to clear her. The prisoners shun Mervin, blaming him for the whole mess. Jessie thinks Lou's escape will help them catch Bassinger.
#17 - Episode 636
Season 8 - Episode 48 - Aired 7/1/1986
The knives are out as Nancy and Rita finally clash over her intention to kill Joan. Janet rips up Merle's comics and tells her Rita was responsible, but Kath and Marty persuade Merle otherwise. Lexie and Roach plot to set up Rodney with a bag of herbs masquerading as drugs, and a video tape. Joan learns that Parker has gotten his comeuppance in jail. The Pringles return from their honeymoon, regaling the women with their fascinating stories.
#18 - Episode 645
Season 8 - Episode 57 - Aired 7/31/1986
Rita, Alice and Nancy await their fate following Joan's unexpected return to Wentworth as she tells Ann how she managed to escape the island. Kath decides it is time for her to make a bid for the Top Dog position. Lorelei is beaten up by Kath's supporters for defying her and standing up for herself. Nancy's new daughter-in-law turns up at the prison to ask her advice. Rita gets out of Solitary and ambushes Kath on the stairs.
#19 - Episode 692
Season 8 - Episode 104 - Aired 12/11/1986
Rita carries out the robbery but is recaptured and brought back to Wentworth in a bad way. Joan goes to pick up the cash but chickens out. Alice gets Tom to bring in his motorbike for Rita to ride in the grounds as a birthday treat. Ann is told her reforms have been accepted and Dwyer sacked. Rita announces she's standing down as Top Dog and wants Kath to take over. Harry is transferred to Barnhurst. Joan arrives at work next day to hear Rita died during the night. She finally picks up the stolen loot, but the cops are waiting for her and she arrives in Wentworth on remand overnight and is put in Solitary. Joan starts cracking up and is horrified when her meal is brought in by a very much alive Rita. She is taken away to another prison next morning as the women whoop and holler. Rita tells Alice she's ""going to be the oldest biker in the world"".
#20 - Episode 666
Season 8 - Episode 78 - Aired 9/23/1986
A furious Rita arrives at Blackmoor, where she has to fight for her life against the efforts of the inmates, the officers and the Governor to destroy her. She also gets a terrible shock when she spots a familiar face amongst the inmates. Back at Wentworth, Spider and Alice are forced into a shaky alliance to defeat Kath.
#21 - Episode 680
Season 8 - Episode 92 - Aired 10/30/1986
Marty's attempts to help Spike could spell trouble for Lisa Mullins. Kath finally manages to find Spider's contraband, but Rita could die as a consequence.
#22 - Episode 668
Season 8 - Episode 80 - Aired 9/25/1986
With Blackmoor burned to the ground, Rita and the inmates arrive at Wentworth along with Craven, who forms a deadly alliance with Joan and sets out to make as much trouble as he can for everyone - especially Ann Reynolds.
#23 - Episode 664
Season 8 - Episode 76 - Aired 9/11/1986
The women decide to place a ban on the Wentworth shop and Joan starts scheming to have it lifted. Meanwhile, she finally achieves her ambition when she has Rita set up and transferred to Blackmoor.
#24 - Episode 667
Season 8 - Episode 79 - Aired 9/23/1986
Events at Blackmoor build to a shattering climax as Rita leads the women to riot, taking several officers hostage. Craven issues a devastating order that prompts a grieving Rita to burn the prison to the ground. Meanwhile, Kath incites the Wentworth women into a rooftop protest in support of Rita, then wriggles out of responsibility for it.
#25 - Episode 600
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/20/1986
Lou starts a full-scale riot in the prison, taking Joan, Mervin and Steve hostage and tying up Rita and her cronies in the dining room. Eve faces a kangaroo court and is hanged as punishment, as Lou finally gets revenge on the Phantom Lagger. As Bob tries to regain control of his prison, Lou forces Joan and Rita into a fight to the death...