5.5/10128 votesLoading...#1 - Back from the Future
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/29/1990
In the 21st century a young cop hoping to revive the Jump Street program interviews the retired officers who were there when it all started.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: N/A
6.0/1059 votesLoading...#2 - Wasted
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/6/1991
Mac goes undercover as a football player when a high school football star dies from an unexplained heart attack.
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: N/A
6.3/1068 votesLoading...#3 - Homegirls
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 4/20/1991
After seeing a teenager being murdered, Hoffs infiltrates the girl's street gang to find out who killed her.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: N/A
6.4/10135 votesLoading...#4 - 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
6.4/1074 votesLoading...#5 - The Girl Next Door
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/1990
While investigating the hit and run murder of a high school football star, McCann becomes involved with a cheerleader who has AIDS.
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Jonathan Glassner
6.5/10180 votesLoading...#6 - 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
6.5/1067 votesLoading...#7 - Diplomas for Sale
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/1990
Doug and Joey enroll in a college where good students are mysteriously being turned into criminals.
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Writer: Thomas Perry
6.6/1068 votesLoading...#8 - Just Say No! High
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/1990
Hoffs is suspended from the force when while working undercover in high school she is forced to take a mandatory drug test and the results come back positive.
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Writer: N/A
6.8/10120 votesLoading...#9 - 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
6.8/10138 votesLoading...#10 - 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
6.8/10128 votesLoading...#11 - How I Saved the Senator
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/1990
The Jump Street cops each relate a different version (with the teller as the hero of a film from their favorite genre), to a reporter investigating the foiled attempt to kill a senator.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: N/A
6.8/1061 votesLoading...#12 - Film at Eleven
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/1991
After finding the missing daughter of a famous reporter, Mac tries to solve the mistery behind the missing.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: N/A
6.9/10229 votesLoading...#13 - 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
6.9/1073 votesLoading...#14 - Buddy System
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/27/1990
McCann joins up to be the partner of a mentally handicapped youth in a school buddy system, to investigate the murder of the boy's former partner.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jonathan Glassner
6.9/1079 votesLoading...#15 - Brothers
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/1990
Doug has a strained reunion with his estranged younger brother Joey when Joey is assigned to the Jump St. team. Doug comes to his aid after Joey is brainwashed into joining a religious cult he was investigating.
Director: Don McBrearty
Writer: Jonathan Glassner
6.9/1065 votesLoading...#16 - This Ain't No Summer Camp
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/24/1990
Doug and Joey enroll in a wilderness camp for troubled teams to investigate a murder that happened there and find themselves constantly in trouble with the ex-marine who runs the place.
Director: N/A
Writer: Morgan Gendel
6.9/1072 votesLoading...#17 - Number One with A Bullet
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1990
Doug is seriously wounded while on a case and while the doctors try to save his life he enters limbo where the people he meets there cause him to reconsider his choice of career.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Ann Donahue
6.9/1064 votesLoading...#18 - Under the Influence
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/23/1991
McCann infiltrates a group of devil worshipers whose leader has enthralled a teenage boy with her beauty.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: N/A
7.0/10192 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.0/10166 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.0/10151 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.0/10129 votesLoading...#22 - Blackout
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 6/18/1990
Hoffs, Hanson and Penhall find themselves at the mercy of a defiant gang when all of them become trapped inside a school with out power.
Director: Tucker Gates
Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber
7.0/1064 votesLoading...#23 - In the Name of Love
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/1991
Mac has to date a daughter of a reputed drug dealer in a confidential FBI case at the same time he is trying to rebuild a relantionship with an old flame.
Director: Zale Dalen
Writer: Jonathan Glassner
7.0/1066 votesLoading...#24 - Cop Love
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/23/1991
Mac and Joey try to find the responsibles for vandalizing elderly homes. The problem is that one of the prime suspects is the son of Fuller's girlfriend.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: N/A
7.1/10293 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of 21 Jump Street
Every episode of 21 Jump Street ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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...
Genres:CrimeMysteryDrama
Network:FOX
Worst Episodes Summary
"Back from the Future" is the worst rated episode of "21 Jump Street". It scored 5.5/10 based on 128 votes. Directed by Peter DeLuise and written by N/A, it aired on 1/29/1990. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Wasted".