8.3/10191 votesLoading...#1 - Swallowed Alive
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 2/5/1989
Hanson becomes an inmate in a juvenile detention hall in order to investigate the murder of one of the inmates.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Eric Blakeney
8.2/10235 votesLoading...#2 - Orpheus 3.3
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/1988
Hanson blames himself for failing to prevent the shooting death of his girlfriend in a convenience store robbery and becomes obsessed with revenge.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.1/10198 votesLoading...#3 - A Big Disease with a Little Name
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/7/1988
Dorothy an old girlfriend of Penhall's, who walked out on him two years ago, returns and decides to move in with him. Hanson gets assigned to protect a student with AIDS who is being made to feel unwelcome in class.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
8.1/10164 votesLoading...#4 - Nemesis
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 3/26/1989
Booker is laiden with guilt when after he infiltrates a gang of drug users that kill one of their own whom they suspect is an undercover cop.
Director: Ken Wiederhorn
Writer: John Truby
8.1/10120 votesLoading...#5 - Loc'd Out (2)
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/21/1989
Hanson finds himself on the wrong side of the law after he decides to seek revenge on members of a street gang who shot and seriously wounded Ioki.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: N/A
8.0/10247 votesLoading...#6 - Bad Influence
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/24/1987
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
8.0/101 votesLoading...#7 - Mean Streets and Pastel Houses
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/28/1987
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
8.0/10176 votesLoading...#8 - I'm OK- You Need Work
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/21/1988
Hanson becomes trapped in a private drug clinic where he had himself placed in order to investigate claims of patient abuse made by a kid he once busted on drug charges.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Clifton Campbell
8.0/10142 votesLoading...#9 - 2245
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1990
Hanson tries to convince a juvenile inmate on death row to appear in a film intended to keep his peers out of prison.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: James Wong, Glen Morgan
7.9/10175 votesLoading...#10 - Besieged (2)
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1987
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
7.9/10114 votesLoading...#11 - The Currency We Trade In
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/20/1988
A popular sports writer finds his whole life ruined when Penhall believes his ex-wife's allegations of his being a child molester.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Eric Blakeney
7.9/10127 votesLoading...#12 - Woolly Bullies
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2/19/1989
Penhall's encounter with a bully while undercover causes the members of the Jump Street unit to reminisce about their dealings with bullies while they were in school.
Director: Bill Corcoran
Writer: Bruce Kirschbaum, Bill Nuss, Eric Blakeney
7.9/10128 votesLoading...#13 - Loc'd Out (1)
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 5/14/1989
Hanson finds himself on the wrong side of the law after he decides to seek revenge on members of a street gang who shot and seriously wounded Ioki.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Eric Blakeney, Michelle Ashford
7.9/10130 votesLoading...#14 - Draw the Line
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1989
Booker resigns from the police force after solving a case that gets Hanson out of prison.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: James Wong, Glen Morgan
7.9/10110 votesLoading...#15 - Stand by Your Man
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1989
While trying to expose a drug ring at a prestigious medical school, Hoffs is raped while on a date with one of the suspects who later claims that she seduced him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10123 votesLoading...#16 - La Bizca
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1990
Penhall ends up taking his nephew back to America after he and Hanson travel to El Salvador in order to find Penhall's wife, whom they learn was killed in the fighting.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber
7.8/10153 votesLoading...#17 - You Ought to Be in Prison
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1987
Hanson and a film star he had been assigned to protect are kidnapped by an escaped murderer.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Bill Nuss
7.8/10175 votesLoading...#18 - Christmas in Saigon
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1987
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
7.8/10152 votesLoading...#19 - Hell Week
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 12/18/1988
Hanson and Ioki must endure hell week as fraternity pledges in order to gain the confidence and get evidence on a gang rape which occurred at a frat party.
Director: Jonathan Wacks
Writer: Bill Nuss
7.8/10122 votesLoading...#20 - A.W.O.L.
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 3/19/1989
An old Army buddy comes to Fuller seeking the Jump Street unit's help in bringing in an AWOL soldier who will be classified a deserter if he doesn't return to base within two days.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: N/A
7.8/10115 votesLoading...#21 - Fathers and Sons
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 4/9/1989
Fuller and the Jump Street unit are given a lot of flak and told to pull off the case when city hall learns Hanson and Penhall are about to bust the mayor's son on drug dealing charges.
Director: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: John Truby
7.8/10112 votesLoading...#22 - Out of Control
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1989
Penhall and Ioki become rent a cops while Hanson becomes a member of a clique of thrill seeking kids who break into houses to annoy the rent a cops.
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Writer: N/A
7.8/10111 votesLoading...#23 - Wheels and Deals (II)
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1989
Working on a tip from Booker, the Jump Street cops join a motorcycle caravan in order to bring Raymond Crane to justice. The crossover starts on Booker S01E08 Deals and Wheels (I).
Director: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: N/A
7.8/10112 votesLoading...#24 - Last Chance High
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/19/1990
Donning their McQuaid brother aliases for one last time Hanson and Penhall discover a teenage girl who has kidnapped her baby sister to get her away from their abusive parents; while Penhall adjusts to becoming a father figure.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
7.7/10227 votesLoading...#25 - 16 Blown to 35
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/21/1987
Hoffs enrolls in a teen modeling school after several of its graduates end up appearing in pornography.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Clifton Campbell
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!
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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Best Episodes Summary
"Swallowed Alive" is the best rated episode of "21 Jump Street". It scored 8.3/10 based on 191 votes. Directed by James A. Contner and written by Eric Blakeney, it aired on 2/5/1989. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Orpheus 3.3".