Season 1

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  7.4/10452 votes

  Pilot (1)

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/12/1987

  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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  7.2/10308 votes

  Pilot (2)

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/1987

  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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  7.5/10295 votes

  America, What a Town

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/1987

  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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  7.4/10259 votes

  Don't Pet the Teacher

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/1987

  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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  7.0/10242 votes

  My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/3/1987

  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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  7.6/10244 votes

  The Worst Night of Your Life

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/10/1987

  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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  7.2/10212 votes

  Gotta Finish the Riff

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/1987

  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

  Writer: Patrick Hasburgh, Bill Nuss

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  8.1/10261 votes

  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

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  7.1/10204 votes

  Blindsided

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/31/1987

  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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  7.3/10191 votes

  Next Generation

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/7/1987

  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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  7.3/10213 votes

  Low and Away

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/14/1987

  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

  Writer: Bill Nuss, Paul Bernbaum

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  7.8/10241 votes

  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

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  8.0/101 votes

  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