The Best Episodes of 21 Jump Street Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.4/10(456 votes)

   #1 - Pilot (1)

   S1:E14/12/1987

   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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   Director:Kim Manners

   Writer:Patrick Hasburgh
2. 

   7.2/10(311 votes)

   #2 - Pilot (2)

   S1:E24/12/1987

   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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   Director:Kim Manners

   Writer:Patrick Hasburgh
3. 

   7.5/10(298 votes)

   #3 - America, What a Town

   S1:E34/19/1987

   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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   Director:Larry Shaw

   Writer:Bill Nuss
4. 

   7.4/10(262 votes)

   #4 - Don't Pet the Teacher

   S1:E44/26/1987

   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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   Director:Les Sheldon

   Writer:Clifton Campbell
5. 

   6.9/10(246 votes)

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

   S1:E55/3/1987

   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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   Director:Gary Winter

   Writer:Bill Nuss
6. 

   7.6/10(247 votes)

   #6 - The Worst Night of Your Life

   S1:E65/10/1987

   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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   Director:Rob Bowman

   Writer:Patrick Hasburgh
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7. 

   7.2/10(214 votes)

   #7 - Gotta Finish the Riff

   S1:E75/17/1987

   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

   Writers:Patrick Hasburgh, Bill Nuss

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   Director:Kim Manners

   Writers:Patrick Hasburgh, Bill Nuss
8. 

   8.1/10(263 votes)

   #8 - Bad Influence

   S1:E85/24/1987

   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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   Director:Kim Manners

   Writer:Paul Bernbaum
9. 

   7.1/10(207 votes)

   #9 - Blindsided

   S1:E95/31/1987

   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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   Director:David Jackson

   Writer:Jonathan Lemkin
10. 

    7.3/10(193 votes)

    #10 - Next Generation

    S1:E106/7/1987

    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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    Director:David Nutter

    Writer:Paul Bernbaum
11. 

    7.3/10(216 votes)

    #11 - Low and Away

    S1:E116/14/1987

    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

    Writers:Bill Nuss, Paul Bernbaum

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    Director:Bill Corcoran

    Writers:Bill Nuss, Paul Bernbaum
12. 

    7.8/10(244 votes)

    #12 - 16 Blown to 35

    S1:E126/21/1987

    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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    Director:James Whitmore Jr.

    Writer:Clifton Campbell
13. 

    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Mean Streets and Pastel Houses

    S1:E136/28/1987

    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

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    Director:James Whitmore Jr.

    Writer:Jonathan Lemkin