7.4/10428 votes#1 - 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, when his youthful appearance causes him to be underestimated while on patrol. His first case involves catching drug dealers.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
7.2/10292 votes#2 - 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, when his youthful appearance causes him to be underestimated while on patrol. His first case involves catching drug dealers.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
7.4/10280 votes#3 - 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
7.3/10247 votes#4 - 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
6.9/10229 votes#5 - 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
7.5/10231 votes#6 - 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
7.1/10199 votes#7 - 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
8.0/10245 votes#8 - 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
7.0/10191 votes#9 - 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
7.2/10179 votes#10 - 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
7.2/10199 votes#11 - 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
7.8/10226 votes#12 - 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
8.0/101 votes#13 - 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
The Best Episodes of 21 Jump Street Season 1
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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...
Genres:CrimeMysteryDrama
Network:FOX
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot (1)" is the best rated episode of "21 Jump Street" season 1. It scored 7.4/10 based on 428 votes. Directed by Kim Manners and written by Patrick Hasburgh, it aired on 4/12/1987. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Pilot (2)".