Shameless: Season 8

2011 · 22 episodes · ★ 6.8

Series 8

What Season 8 of Shameless

The season kicks off with Libby and Frank's wedding hanging in the balance. He disappears the night of his bachelor party, and the Gallaghers have to get by without a head of the household. Meanwhile, Mimi tries to figure out who the father of her daughter Cilla is. While Frank is checked into a psychiatric hospital without Libby knowing, Mónica claims custody of Stella and Liam. Later on, the family home is threatened when Frank's divorce is annulled and the time to marry Libby runs out. Shane lands a security job at the neighborhood school.

22episodes

Jan 10, 2011premiered

Oct 25, 2011final episode

18.1 hrtotal runtime

Season 8 Episodes

8x01 Episode 1
Jan 10, 2011 · 48 min
Libby and Frank are supposed to be getting married, but this is put on hold when Frank disappears on his stag night. Mimi tries to find out the identity of the father of her new baby Cilla.
Directed by: Dominic Leclerc · Written by: Tom Higgins · Starring: Annabelle Apsion, Garry Stanley, Jordan Jessup, Daniel Wallace
8x02 Episode 2
Jan 11, 2011 · 56 min
Frank is still missing and imagines that he is in a parallel universe featuring Doctor Who characters. His ex-wife Monica, having heard that Frank has gone, wants custody of Stella and Liam.
Directing: Dominic Leclerc · Writing: Ian Kershaw · Starring: Annabelle Apsion, Simon Holland Roberts, Marvin Brown, Elaine MacKenzie Ellis
8x03 Episode 3
Jan 12, 2011 · 54 min
Shane finds security work at the local school and helps a boy being bullied by his twin. Frank is still incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital, unknown to Libby, who tries to move on with her life.
Directing: Lawrence Till · Writing: Kevin Erlis · Starring: Annabelle Apsion, Amelia Bullmore, Jordan Hill, John Paul Hurley
8x04 Episode 4
Jan 13, 2011 · 46 min
Karen attends the psychiatric hospital as an out-patient and finds that Frank has been there all along.
Directing: Metin Hüseyin · Writing: Ed McCardie, Emma Taylor · Starring: Aysha Kala, Sebastian Shaw, Paul Warriner
8x05 Episode 5
Jan 14, 2011 · 58 min
After weeks of suffering at the hands of his own mental incarceration Frank is almost fully intact of his marbles and is plots his escape. Libby meanwhile has had the dramatic news that Frank's divorce is about to be nullified and they could lose the family home in 24 hours. The solution is for Frank and Libby to get married and the clock is ticking...
Directing: Lawrence Till · Writing: Ed McCardie · Starring: Annabelle Apsion, Amelia Bullmore, Catherine Tyldesley, Dennis Conlon
8x06 Episode 6
Jan 18, 2011 · 47 min
It's Carl's 21st birthday, and he gets a job working for the Maguires. However his first job does not go to plan when Kelly steals money which was supposed to go to a business client.
Directing: Metin Hüseyin · Writing: Darren Fairhurst · Starring: Aysha Kala, Paul Kaye
8x07 Episode 7
Jan 25, 2011 · 46 min
Sita calls the terrorist line in order to teach Chesney a lesson. Shane and Kelly get more than they bargained for when a woman's sexual fantasy, kidnapping, ruins their business.
Directing: Paul Walker · Writing: Jimmy Dowdall · Starring: Robbie Conway, Aysha Kala, Pooky Quesnel, James MacColl
8x08 Episode 8
Feb 1, 2011 · 47 min
Mickey and Shane think of a way to make some extra money. Their final idea was to make a child pornography site which contained no nude images and took the credit card details of those who subscribed. Their view on the matter was that they were doing a good thing by using the website as a deterant, however the police didn't see it that way.
Directing: Paul Walker · Writing: Phil Charles · Starring: Robbie Conway, Aysha Kala, Roger Sloman
8x09 Episode 9
Feb 8, 2011 · 47 min
Mimi seems to be suffering with insomnia, however her condition deteriorates when she believes that she may have dementia.
Directing: Andrew McDonnell · Writing: Frank Rickarby · Starring: Robbie Conway, Samantha Siddall, Aysha Kala, Rosamund Hanson
8x10 Episode 10
Feb 15, 2011 · 47 min
Mickey needs somebody to love, He adopts a cat with FIDS (feline AIDS) and meets Philip who also suffers with AIDS in order to learn more about it. Mickey goes to the shop and returns to find Philip dead.
Directing: Lawrence Till · Writing: Tom Higgins · Starring: Aysha Kala, Rosamund Hanson, Alan Williams, Jonathon Ojinnaka
8x11 Episode 11
Feb 22, 2011 · 46 min
Libby gets her mother a nurse to look after her when she's at work, all doesn't go to plan when Libby's mother mis-treated. Lillian reveals that she has signed over the house to her newly adopted daughter, Bonnie. Bonnie tells Lillian about her life growing up and then commits suicide.
Directed by: Lawrence Till · Written by: Ian Kershaw · Starring: Robbie Conway, Aysha Kala, Rosamund Hanson, Lee Toomes
8x12 Episode 12
Mar 1, 2011 · 47 min
Mimi's transvestite brother turns up, but isn't all he appears to be. The Maguires are still at each others throats, and Chesney is in danger as he and Jackson join the British Alliance Party, and manage to rub them up the wrong way.
Directing: Paul Walker · Writing: Darren Fairhurst · Starring: Sam Hazeldine, Carl Rice
8x13 Episode 13
Mar 8, 2011 · 47 min
Following his sexual encounter with Letitia's headmistress, Miss Heller, Frank has had his final chance with Libby, who seems taken with the mysterious Martin. Shane's theft of Tilly Pucker's wheelchair further strains relations between the Maguire brothers, coming to a head in a showdown with Tilly's minders.
Directing: Paul Walker · Writing: Kevin Erlis · Starring: Robbie Conway, Matthew James Edge, Natalie Garner, Annie Wallace
8x14 Episode 14
Aug 30, 2011 · 46 min
Paddy returns to the Chatsworth estate in a coffin, but are the residents in for a shock? Elsewhere, Karen decides that a childrens entertainment business is the way forward and Mimi gets a new strap-on!.
Directed by: Michael Keillor · Written by: Jimmy Dowdall · Starring: Robbie Conway, Lauren Frain, Simon Smithies, Rory Gallagher
8x15 Episode 15
Sep 6, 2011 · 46 min
Avril is busy keeping secrets from her family; with no job and no money, but always a gift to hand, something doesn't quite add up. Mimi has designs on fit jogger Neil, but he's unsure of her advances - because he only wants sex. Mimi is keen to spice up her sex life, but Karen raises concerns about Neil's calorific role-play. When 12-year-old Bean tries to shoplift, Chesney phones her dad, Gorky, who is Chesney's delivery driver, but Chesney soon becomes concerned for Bean's welfare and decides to try and rescue her. And the law finally catches up with Avril when a bailiff arrives; she breaks down and confesses leaving Jackson gobsmacked. Will he and Letitia promise to support her and help pay back all the money she owes?
Directing: Michael Keillor · Writing: Ian Kershaw · Starring: Matthew James Edge, Donna Dowd, Kerrie Hayes, James Weaver
8x16 Episode 16
Sep 13, 2011 · 47 min
While cleaning the windows, Jackson spots Letitia kissing Dee Davies in her bedroom. Jackson goes berserk, attacking Dee in front of a social worker who's waiting to assess him and Avril as foster parents. Frank isn't much use in the parent department, staggering to the Jockey and leaving Carl to nurse pox-ridden Stella. Drunken Frank then leaves the pub and accidentally gets on a mini-bus, waking up in a synagogue. He's discovered by Isaac, who promises not to report him because Frank's been sent from God. Frank thanks Isaac for his advice and hospitality by stealing his candelabra and legging it. Karen's fed up with how she's treated in her own pub and plots to get her power back with a card game. Meanwhile, an ambulance is called for the smallest Gallagher. Will she pull through unharmed?
Directing: Sarah Punshon · Writing: Tom Higgins, Lee Warburton · Starring: Matthew James Edge, Lucien Laviscount, Olwen May, Nicholas Woodeson
8x17 Episode 17
Sep 20, 2011 · 46 min
A new gang has rolled into Chatsworth with an unlikely mission - to save the souls of the community.
Directing: Paul Unwin · Writing: Tom Higgins · Starring: Robbie Conway, Jack Deam, William Ash, Shannon Flynn
8x18 Episode 18
Sep 27, 2011 · 75 min
Dean Lennox Kelly returns for the landmark 100th episode of Shameless, as Mickey give Mimi an ultimatum: either the new boiler goes or he does; and suddenly Micky finds himself on The Jockey sofa.
Directing: Gordon Anderson · Writing: Paul Abbott · Starring: Robbie Conway, Dean Lennox Kelly, Jack Deam, Josh Brown
8x19 Episode 19
Oct 4, 2011 · 47 min
Aidan's bad behaviour ends up seeing him in court. Patty ends up having to decide the outcome. Cilla's abduction sees Mimi being forced to face her past, as she reasserts herself has head of the Maguire family. Marty and Mickey start to get intimate as they help each other decorate their new flat.
Directing: Paul Unwin · Writing: Kevin Erlis · Starring: Robbie Conway, Michael Taylor, Jack Deam, Piotr Baumann
8x20 Episode 20
Oct 11, 2011 · 47 min
Marty attempts to find a job and ends up turning to crime to tide him over. Kelly discovers that there's a price on Marty's head. Billy is determined to stand up for his rights as a father. Mimi ends up giving him an ultimatum. Mickey's flat is raided by the local police. Marty is confronted by Shane about a secret he left behind in Spain. Kelly is heartbroken agter she is told the truth and doesn't know who to believe.
Directing: Gordon Anderson · Writing: Tom Higgins · Starring: Michael Taylor, Jack Deam, Nicholas Moss, Joe Simpson
8x21 Episode 21
Oct 18, 2011 · 46 min
Billy needs to start pulling his weight and Mimi decides to test his manhood. Ray's skill with numbers ends up being noticed by Micky who plans a trip to the casino. Kelly ends up receiving some shocking news during rehearsal for the local play.
Directing: Lawrence Till · Writing: Ian Kershaw · Starring: Michael Taylor, Samuel Holland, Erin Shanagher, Genevieve Barr
8x22 Episode 22 Season Finale
Oct 25, 2011 · 47 min
Billy and Mimi find the game is up after Micky finds them in a compromising position. Billy is scared as the Maguire brothers want his blood for daring to marry their mother. Kelly's not sure about keeping the baby and Jamie ends up finding out more than he bargained for after he confronts her at work. Kelly realises she has to be honest with him but will he still want her and the baby. Carl sees a crime being committed but walks past, unaware of the consequences. Billy's stag ends up being a night to remember.
Directing: Lawrence Till · Writing: Jimmy Dowdall · Starring: Robbie Conway, Michael Taylor, Jack Deam, Dominic Crolla