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The Best Episodes of 21 Jump Street

Every episode of 21 Jump Street ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 21 Jump Street!

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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 young adults.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot (1)
    9.5/10(4 votes)

    #1 - Pilot (1)

    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.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  2. 21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 2 - Pilot (2)
    9.3/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Pilot (2)

    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.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  3. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 1 - In the Custody of a Clown
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - In the Custody of a Clown

    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.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Clifton Campbell

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  4. 21 Jump Street Season 3 Episode 2 - Slippin' Into Darkness
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Slippin' Into Darkness

    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.

    Director:James A. Contner
    Writer:Clifton Campbell

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  5. 21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 3 - America, What a Town
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - America, What a Town

    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.

    Director:Larry Shaw
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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  6. 21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 4 - Don't Pet the Teacher
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Don't Pet the Teacher

    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.

    Director:Les Sheldon
    Writer:Clifton Campbell

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  7. 21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 5 - My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
    8.0/10(1 votes)

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

    S1:E5

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

    Director:Gary Winter
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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  8. 21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 6 - The Worst Night of Your Life
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Worst Night of Your Life

    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.

    Director:Rob Bowman
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  9. 21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 7 - Gotta Finish the Riff
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Gotta Finish the Riff

    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.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writers:Patrick Hasburgh, Bill Nuss

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  10. 21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 8 - Bad Influence
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Bad Influence

    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.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Paul Bernbaum

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  11. 21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 9 - Blindsided
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Blindsided

    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.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:Jonathan Lemkin

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  12. 21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 10 - Next Generation
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Next Generation

    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.

    Director:David Nutter
    Writer:Paul Bernbaum

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  13. 21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 11 - Low and Away
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Low and Away

    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.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writers:Bill Nuss, Paul Bernbaum

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  14. 21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 12 - 16 Blown to 35
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - 16 Blown to 35

    S1:E12

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

    Director:James Whitmore Jr.
    Writer:Clifton Campbell

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  15. 21 Jump Street Season 1 Episode 13 - Mean Streets and Pastel Houses
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Mean Streets and Pastel Houses

    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.

    Director:James Whitmore Jr.
    Writer:Jonathan Lemkin

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  16. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 2 - Besieged (1)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Besieged (1)

    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.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:Jonathan Lemkin

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  17. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 3 - Besieged (2)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Besieged (2)

    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.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:Jonathan Lemkin

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  18. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 4 - Two for the Road
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Two for the Road

    S2:E4

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

    Director:Steve Beers
    Writer:Paul Bernbaum

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  19. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 5 - After School Special
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - After School Special

    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.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:David Jackson

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  20. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 6 - Higher Education
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Higher Education

    S2:E6

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

    Director:Larry Shaw
    Writer:E. Paul Edwards

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  21. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 7 - Don't Stretch the Rainbow
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Don't Stretch the Rainbow

    S2:E7

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

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  22. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 8 - Honor Bound
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Honor Bound

    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.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:E. Paul Edwards

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  23. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 9 - You Ought to Be in Prison
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - You Ought to Be in Prison

    S2:E9

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

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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  24. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 10 - How Much is That Body in the Window?
    8.0/10(1 votes)

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

    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.

    Director:Neill Fearnley
    Writer:Clifton Campbell

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  25. 21 Jump Street Season 2 Episode 11 - Christmas in Saigon
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Christmas in Saigon

    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.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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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)".