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The Best Episodes of 21 Jump Street

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The Best Episodes of 21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and...

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  1. 9.5/10(4 votes)

    #1 - Pilot (1)

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    S1:E1

    Hanson gets assigned to the Jump Street unit, a special division of the police force which uses young cops to go undercover and stop juvenile crime. His first case involves catching drug dealers.

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  2. 9.3/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Pilot (2)

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    S1:E2

    Hanson gets assigned to the Jump Street unit, a special division of the police force which uses young cops to go undercover and stop juvenile crime. His first case involves catching drug dealers.

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  3. 9.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - In the Custody of a Clown

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    S2:E1

    The Jump Street unit discovers that a boy who was being used as a pawn by his feuding parents faked his kidnapping with the aid of his grandfather to get away from his parents.

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  4. 9.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Slippin' Into Darkness

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    S3:E2

    Hoffs and Ioki go undercover in a Guardian Angel-type street patrol whose members have a vendetta out for a drug dealer who Hanson is trying to set up for a bust.

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  5. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - America, What a Town

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    S1:E3

    Hoffs goes undercover to keep a wild Eastern Bloc exchange student out of trouble. Hanson and Penhall enroll in a shop class suspected of being a chop shop for an auto theft ring.

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    Director:Larry Shaw
    Writer:Bill Nuss
  6. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Don't Pet the Teacher

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    S1:E4

    A woman with car trouble, whom Hanson helps out and makes a date with, turns out to be a teacher who has been getting threatening messages and whose class he has been assigned to undercover.

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  8. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

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    S1:E5

    Hanson and Penhall infiltrate an exclusive preppie clique to investigate a prank that left a girl dead.

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    Director:Gary Winter
    Writer:Bill Nuss
  9. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Worst Night of Your Life

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    S1:E6

    Hoffs is not convinced that the captured suspect in an arson case at a Catholic girls school is the guilty party and believes that the real culprit will strike again at the school's prom.

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  10. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Gotta Finish the Riff

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    S1:E7

    Jenko is killed by a drunk driver and is replaced by Captain Fuller who has his hands full dealing with a vengeful gang leader whom has taken his principal and several others hostage, including an undercover Hanson.

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  11. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Bad Influence

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    S1:E8

    Hanson and Penhall try to locate some missing juveniles, while Ioki tries to find a link between a teenage prostitution ring and a series of burglaries.

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    Director:Kim Manners
  12. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Blindsided

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    S1:E9

    The daughter of a policeman who claims her father is sexually abusing her tries to hire Hanson—undercover with Penhall as one of the drug dealing McQuaid brothers—to kill her father.

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  13. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Next Generation

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    S1:E10

    Hanson, who is out to catch a loan shark, finds his cover threatened when his high school quiz team makes it to the semi-finals, which are to be broadcast on TV.

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  14. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Low and Away

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    S1:E11

    Penhall joins the school baseball team in order to keep an eye on one of its star players, whose life has been threatened when his father agrees to testify against the mob.

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  15. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - 16 Blown to 35

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    S1:E12

    Hoffs enrolls in a teen modeling school after several of its graduates end up appearing in pornography.

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  16. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Mean Streets and Pastel Houses

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    S1:E13

    Hanson goes undercover as a punk rocker in an effort to stop a feud between two rival gangs from turning into a war.

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  17. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Besieged (1)

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    S2:E2

    Hanson and Hoffs go undercover in order to put a crack ring out of business. Penhall, working on the same case, returns to squad car and becomes convinced that his new partner killed a drug pusher.

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  18. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Besieged (2)

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    S2:E3

    Hanson and Hoffs go undercover in order to put a crack ring out of business. Penhall, working on the same case, returns to squad car and becomes convinced that his new partner killed a drug pusher.

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  19. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Two for the Road

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    S2:E4

    The Jump Street unit is investigating a counterfeit drivers license ring when Captain Fuller gets arrested for drunk driving.

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    Director:Steve Beers
  20. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - After School Special

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    S2:E5

    Hanson is unable to keep his mind on the investigation of a shooting of a teacher at an inner city school when he learns that his mother is moving in with her boyfriend.

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  21. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Higher Education

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    A pregnant school girl fingers Ioki as the father to be.

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  22. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Don't Stretch the Rainbow

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    Racial violence threatens to break out at an integrated school when word leaks out that a white student got a black student pregnant.

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  23. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Honor Bound

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    S2:E8

    Hanson and Penhall find the military code of honor hampering their undercover investigation of a military academy where the cadets are suspected of killing homosexuals.

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  24. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - You Ought to Be in Prison

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    S2:E9

    Hanson and a film star he had been assigned to protect are kidnapped by an escaped murderer.

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    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Bill Nuss
  25. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - How Much is That Body in the Window?

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    S2:E10

    Penhall gets close to a football player suspected of using steroids at a school where an olympic hopeful gymnast died after a performance due to steroid abuse. Hanson considers becoming a big brother.

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  26. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Christmas in Saigon

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    S2:E11

    Ioki faces being dismissed from the force when internal affairs discovers that he is a Vietnamese refuge who is using an alias. Flashback sequences show his escape from Saigon.

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    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Bill Nuss

Best Episodes Summary

"Pilot (1)" is the best rated episode of "21 Jump Street". It scored 9.5/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Kim Manners and written by Patrick Hasburgh, it aired on 4/12/1987. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Pilot (2)".