The Best Episodes of 21 Jump Street Season 2
Every episode of 21 Jump Street Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of 21 Jump Street Season 2!
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.
Season 2 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "21 Jump Street" season 2 is "In the Custody of a Clown", rated 6.5/10 from 177 user votes. It was directed by Kim Manners and written by Clifton Campbell. "In the Custody of a Clown" aired on 9/20/1987 and is rated 1.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Besieged (1)".
6.5/10 177 votes#1 - In the Custody of a Clown
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1987
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
7.6/10 191 votes#2 - Besieged (1)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1987
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
7.9/10 171 votes#3 - 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
7.0/10 163 votes#4 - Two for the Road
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1987
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
7.5/10 160 votes#5 - After School Special
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1987
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
7.4/10 156 votes#6 - Higher Education
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1987
A pregnant school girl fingers Ioki as the father to be.
Director: Larry Shaw
Writer: E. Paul Edwards
7.3/10 150 votes#7 - Don't Stretch the Rainbow
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1987
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
7.8/10 168 votes#8 - Honor Bound
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1987
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
7.8/10 149 votes#9 - 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
7.3/10 148 votes#10 - How Much is That Body in the Window?
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1987
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
7.8/10 172 votes#11 - 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
7.0/10 148 votes#12 - Fear and Loathing with Russell Buckins
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1987
Hanson contemplates leaving the force and leaves town instead of going to a refresher course at the police academy he and Penhall had been assigned to take after they went drag racing to try to catch a hit and run driver.
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer: Gary Skeen Hall
8.1/10 193 votes#13 - 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
7.2/10 137 votes#14 - Chapel of Love
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/14/1988
Past romances that didn't have happy endings are the subject of conversation at a Valentine Day Eve poker game.
Director: Michael Robinson
Writer: Jonathan Lemkin, Bill Nuss
8.0/10 172 votes#15 - 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
8.3/10 229 votes#16 - 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
7.6/10 140 votes#17 - Champagne High
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/6/1988
Penhall & Hanson go undercover as the McQuaid brothers in a suburban high school, that recently has had inner city kids bused in, to investigate the theft of a Porsche. Meanwhile, Judy must deal with a love-sick teenage boy.
Director: Larry Shaw
Writer: Paul Bernbaum
6.4/10 132 votes#18 - Brother Hanson & the Miracle of Renner's Pond
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/13/1988
When a small-town teacher refuses to teach the theory of evolution after his son has a near-death experience, Hanson infiltrates the school to try to discover who's behind the recent burning of the science books.
Director: Bill Corcoran
Writer: E. Paul Edwards
7.1/10 116 votes#19 - Raising Marijuana
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/17/1988
Penhall and Ioki go undercover as the ""Swark Twins"" to get in with teenage boys working for drug smugglers. Meanwhile, Hoffs becomes romantically involved with the head drug smuggler.
Director: Bill Corcoran
Writer: Jonathan Lemkin
7.3/10 190 votes#20 - Best Years of Your Life
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/1988
The suicide of a popular student, whom Hanson and Penhall had arrested the night before, leaves his family, fellow students and Hanson in a state of depression and forces Penhall to relive bitter childhood memories.
Director: Bill Corcoran
Writer: Jonathan Lemkin
6.9/10 135 votes#21 - Cory and Dean Got Married
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/1988
Hoffs and Penhall must deal with a pursuing husband when they are assigned to escort a girl arrested for killing her father when he tried to prevent her from eloping.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Clifton Campbell
7.4/10 133 votes#22 - School's Out
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/22/1988
Hanson goes undercover to find a student who is blowing up toilets. Meanwhile, Fuller must convince the higher-ups that the Jump Street program, which is scheduled to be deactivated over the summer, should be reactivated in the fall, and Doug decides it's time to grow up.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Blakeney