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 young adults.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "21 Jump Street" is "Back from the Future", rated 5.5/10 from 127 user votes. It was directed by Peter DeLuise and written by N/A. "Back from the Future" aired on 1/29/1990 and is rated 0.5 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Wasted".
5.5/10 127 votes#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
6.0/10 58 votes#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
6.3/10 67 votes#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
6.4/10 132 votes#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
6.4/10 73 votes#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
6.5/10 177 votes#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
6.5/10 66 votes#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
6.6/10 67 votes#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
6.8/10 78 votes#9 - 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
6.8/10 60 votes#10 - 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
6.9/10 224 votes#11 - 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
6.9/10 135 votes#12 - 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
6.9/10 126 votes#13 - 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
6.9/10 71 votes#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
6.9/10 64 votes#15 - 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
6.9/10 71 votes#16 - 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
6.9/10 61 votes#17 - 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
7.0/10 187 votes#18 - 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
7.0/10 163 votes#19 - 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
7.0/10 148 votes#20 - 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
7.0/10 81 votes#21 - God is a Bullet
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1989
The Jump Street team intervenes when a tough new principal goes too far in his attempts to clean up a drug and crime infested inner city school.
Director: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 128 votes#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
7.0/10 68 votes#23 - Equal Protection
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/1991
After discovering that some white officers are responsible for beating and harassing black teenagers, Hoffs, with Fuller's help, try to convict them.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 62 votes#24 - 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
7.0/10 65 votes#25 - 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