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The Best Episodes of Santa Barbara Season 8

Every episode of Santa Barbara Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Santa Barbara Season 8!

Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show revolves around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California. Other prominent families featured on the soap were the rival Lockridge family, and the more modest Andrade and Perkins families. Santa Barbara aired in over 40 countries around the world and is best remembered for its witty dialogue and sometimes tongue-in-cheek situations that often seemed like an affectionate parody of the genre. The show won 24 Daytime Emmy Awards and 18 Soap Opera Digest Awards among various other awards.

Genre:Soap
Network:NBC

Season 8 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Santa Barbara" season 8 is "Episode 1622", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Episode 1622" aired on 1/2/1991 and is rated NaN point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 1623".

  • Episode 1622
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    #1 - Episode 1622

    Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1991

    Keith asks Gina about her affair with Ethan Asher. Robert starts pushing himself on Kelly. Cruz and Eden find a way that Flame was able to get out of her cell. Keith tells Gina he bought a home for them. Flame cries on Keith's shoulder. Cruz and Eden tell Robert they believe Flame did the shooting. Cruz then calls Robert, Quinn.

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  • Episode 1623
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    #2 - Episode 1623

    Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/1991

    Julia tells Augusta that Dash has a great lawyer that has gotten rapists off before. Keith does not want Mason to testify. Laken twists her ankle while out riding with Richie and Amado sees Richie massaging Laken's ankle. Amado and Laken make love. Mason testifies on Julia's behalf. Mason reveals that he and Julia are not legally divorced. Julia slaps Mason and a photographer catches the slap on film.

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  • Episode 1624
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    #3 - Episode 1624

    Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 1/4/1991

    Eden and Cruz ask Robert to pose as Quinn's ghost to trick Flame. Kelly and Craig enjoy their holiday in Cabo. Stephen witnesses Cassandra and Mason passionately kissing. Dash's lawyer, Belinda tells him he needs to be honest with her about everything. Robert decides to go along with Cruz' plan to trap Flame. Julia takes the stand. The judge decides that Dash has to go on trial.

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  • Episode 1625
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    #4 - Episode 1625

    Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 1/7/1991

    Robert visits Flame and while there Flame receives a call from Quinn, set up by Cruz. Cassandra asks Stephen how he will prove his allegations against her. Amado and Richie compete for Laken's affections. Robert poses as Quinn and visits Flame. Flame tells Quinn that she killed him as Keith looks on.

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  • Episode 1626
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    #5 - Episode 1626

    Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 1/8/1991

    Amado wakes up with many car stereos in his apartment. He understands that Richie framed him. Mason tells Julia he made them officially divorced. Julia thinks about selling her house. Cassandra learns that Mason is now divorced and kisses him.

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  • Episode 1627
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    #6 - Episode 1627

    Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 1/9/1991

    Keith tells Cruz and Eden that he cannot use what they have on Flame due to entrapment. Flame is hauled into custody and admits to shooting Quinn to save Eden's life. Julia decides to sell her home. Mason and Cassandra decide to take things slow. Dash tells Belinda not to dig dirt up on Julia. Cassandra calls Belinda and tells her that Julia slept with Michael when he was a priest. Flame attempts to seduce Keith.

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  • Episode 1628
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    #7 - Episode 1628

    Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 1/10/1991

    Kelly arrives back from Cabo. CC and Sophia tell Kelly that Robert cleared Eden and Flame is in jail. Richie sets Amado up for stealing stereos when he was drunk. Amado gives his resignation to Minx and she refuses. Kelly tells Robert she is having Quinn's baby. Cassandra overhears Michael telling Minx that he has a file on Cassandra. Laken confronts Richie about the stolen car stereos. Amado goes to Cruz for help. Cassandra goes to Michael's office to find the file, then overhears Michael telling Minx she has to tell Cassandra she is her daughter. Cruz asks Amado to move in with them.

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  • Episode 1629
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    #8 - Episode 1629

    Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 1/11/1991

    Cruz asks Amado to keep an eye on Eden and the kids while he is out of town. Julia asks Eden if she would interview her and then do a series on rapes. Julia has a change of heart about moving. Cruz and Eden walk out to the car en-route to the airport and a man hovers outside their door.

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  • Episode 1630
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    #9 - Episode 1630

    Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 1/15/1991

    A French man named Andre calls Eden at her office. Belinda legally prevents Eden from airing any show about Julia's rape. Keith tells Julia that Michael has been called as a witness. Kelly decides to no longer work with Robert. Julia's trial begins. Cassandra gives Stephen a stern warning not to dig too deep on her past or he will regret it. The mysterious man that called Eden watches her broadcast.

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  • Episode 1631
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    #10 - Episode 1631

    Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 1/16/1991

    Eden broadcasts from the courthouse. Belinda brings up Julia and Michael sleeping together while he was still a priest. The jury finds Dash not guilty and Julia freaks out. Minx asks Cassandra to be her liaison with the Capridge water. Cassandra turns down Minx' offer. Eden consoles Julia. A man breaks in Cruz and Eden's home when Eden goes to bed.

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  • Episode 1632
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    #11 - Episode 1632

    Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 1/17/1991

    Eden denies to Julia and Michael that she saw the guy who broke in, when she really did see him. Jeremy tells Dash that he thinks Mason has something to do with the Blues not wanting Dash back. Cassandra finds out that Lionel is researching her past. Eden receives a letter from a man named Andre. Dash begins being harassed in public.

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  • Episode 1633
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    #12 - Episode 1633

    Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/1991

    Cassandra comes to give information to Minx about Capridge Water. They try to discuss, but they are both suspicious the one of the other. Mason obtains Dash's firing from the new Blue Sky Brigade leader. Eden receives a letter from Andre. He tells her that he knows her since their early years in Paris.

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  • Episode 1634
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    #13 - Episode 1634

    Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 1/22/1991

    Minx wants Cassandra to betray CC and offers her money. Cassandra refuses, and Minx thinks she lost her daughter forever. CC learns that Kelly is pregnant with Quinn, and tells it to Eden. Kelly breaks up with Robert, telling she only loves Quinn. Flame sees Robert playing with Quinn's gold coin. Eden dreams of Andre, now with her and many precious jewels.

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  • Episode 1635
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    #14 - Episode 1635

    Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1991

    Julia and Cassandra squabble over Mason. Craig tells Flame that she should leave town. Flame has a gold coin left from Quinn. Julia asks Gina to appear on an acquaintance rape panel. Gina tells Keith about the panel and he asks her to put a good word about him on the show. Kelly decides to have an abortion.

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  • Episode 1636
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    #15 - Episode 1636

    Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1991

    Dash and Michael are concerned that Stephen has gone missing. Eden airs her date rape show. Stephen's landlord Mrs. Henderson tells Michael that she hear Stephen and a woman arguing the night before. Mrs. Henderson describes Cassandra to Michael as the lady with Stephen. Cassandra flat out denies to Michael that she is the woman Mrs. Henderson described. Dash's former employees give him a piece of their mind. Andre reads about an upcoming masquerade ball at Capwell Oasis and plans to attend. Mason and Dash almost come to blows, but Belinda and Gina prevent it. Dash tells Belinda he is suing Julia for "defamation of character". Andre sends Eden a gold necklace.

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  • Episode 1637
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    #16 - Episode 1637

    Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1991

    Gina's jealousy of Flame and Keith escalates. Flame realizes that it is Robert and not Quinn in the morgue. Kelly is unsure of going through with an abortion. Andre meets Eden and calls her Lisa.

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  • Episode 1638
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    #17 - Episode 1638

    Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1991

    Dash sues Julia for defamation of character. Flame sees the scar on Robert's back and realizes that Robert is really Quinn. CC visits Cassie to try and talk some sense about Cassie and Mason being together. Kelly tells Robert that she has accepted that Quinn is the father of her baby as Flame listens, shocked. Eden dreams about being involved in a jewelry heist.

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  • Episode 1639
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    #18 - Episode 1639

    Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1991

    Eden meets Robert and asks if he remembers an Andre Wolfe. Andre tells Eden he wants the diamonds back. Craig tries to talk some sense in Cassandra. Minx calls Cassandra to meet her for some urgent news. Quinn tells Flame he never loved her. Flame remembers times with Quinn and Quinn remembers times with Kelly.

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  • Episode 1640
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    #19 - Episode 1640

    Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/1991

    Minx tells Cassandra that she is her daughter and Cassandra could care less. Cruz and Eden's home gets broken into. Mason and Augusta agree that Julia is acting strange. Sophia and Eden dine out and Eden tells Sophia that there is something familiar about Andre. Richie has Amado's wallet stolen. Andre has the Castillo home broken into. Eden comes clean about the necklace that was sent to her and Cruz is furious for Eden not telling him. Augusta finds out that Julia has bought some rope. The Castillo's realize they were broken into again.

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  • Episode 1641
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    #20 - Episode 1641

    Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1991

    Augusta asks Julia why she bought a rope. Julia tells her realtor that she is looking for a secluded place. CC warns Gina that if she marries Keith he will take away Brandon. Cassandra is not handling being Minx's daughter well.

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    #21 - Episode 1642

    Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 2/1/1991

    Andre is all set for the Masquerade ball. Julia is setting up Dash. After Brandon is caught bribing another student to get his vote, which he learned from Keith, Gina lashes out at Keith. The Capwells prepare for a masquerade party. Cruz is ready to meet Andre at the party. Belinda warns Dash that he should not go to the party. Dash fantasizes of Julia falling for him. Julia buys a gun to bring to the party.

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  • Episode 1643
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    #22 - Episode 1643

    Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 2/4/1991

    Julia puts the gun in her purse and heads to the party. An explosion goes off outside the Castillo's home. The masquerade ball begins. Michael tells Augusta that Stephen has been missing causing Augusta to worry since nobody has heard from Lionel. Julia asks Dash to dance. Andre tries to refresh Eden/Lisa's memory. Cassandra says she will never forgive Minx.

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    #23 - Episode 1644

    Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 2/5/1991

    Cruz and Eden head home when they find out about the explosion. Julia abducts Dash. Craig asks Kelly to marry him and Kelly declines. Laken tells Richie to hit the road. Mason finds out that Julia will be in Vermont for a week. Eden finds a strange suitcase that triggers memories.

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  • Episode 1645
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    #24 - Episode 1645

    Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 2/6/1991

    Julia welcomes Dash to his worst nightmare. Cassandra tells Minx she will be her daughter in secret. Augusta hears from Julia. Brandon tells Mason he feels it is because of him that Keith and Gina are not getting married. CC explains to Brandon why he does not like Keith and Brandon says CC is wrong. Brandon goes to Keith for the truth.

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    #25 - Episode 1646

    Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 2/7/1991

    Keith is unsuccessful at explaining his motives to Brandon and decides to go talk with CC. Craig tells Robert not to stand in his way with Kelly. Brandon tells Gina that he wants all the feuding to end. Keith threatens CC. CC decides to get the goods on Keith and run him out of town. Quinn resists Flame. Eden meets with Andre. Andre tells Eden she has lost the edge that Lisa had. Eden gives Andre a necklace, but it is a fake. Andre threatens to go to Cruz.

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