The BEST episodes of 21 Jump Street

Every episode of 21 Jump Street ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of 21 Jump Street!

21 Jump Street revolved around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.

Last Updated: 9/7/2026Network: FOXStatus: Ended
Pilot (2)
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#1 - Pilot (2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/1987

Directors: Kim Manners
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Pilot (1)
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#2 - 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.

Directors: Kim Manners
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America, What a Town
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#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.

Directors: Larry Shaw
Writer: Bill Nuss
Don't Pet the Teacher
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#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.

Directors: Les Sheldon
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Say It Ain't So, Pete
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#5 - Say It Ain't So, Pete

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1989

Penhall gets caught up in the excitement as he and Hanson go undercover to bust a college gambling operation.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: Bill Nuss
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Eternal Flame
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#6 - Eternal Flame

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1989

Hanson meets an old flame now married to the owner of a 80's nightclub suspected of providing LSD to high school students.

Shirts and Skins
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#7 - Shirts and Skins

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/30/1990

When the leader of a neo-Nazi group is murdered, Hoffs & Ioki go undercover in the liberal group suspected of the killing. While Penhall joins the Nazis to learn if they plan a violent reprisal.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
Back to School
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7.00
26 votes

#8 - Back to School

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/20/1990

Garrett attempts to infiltrate a high school drug ring by dating the sister of the ring's suspected leader.

Directors: Steve Beers
Writer: Glen Morgan
Things We Said Today
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#9 - Things We Said Today

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1989

Ioki is confronted by a teenage boy with a gun, who three years earlier Ioki had talked into turning in his drug abusing family.

Directors: Tucker Gates
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How I Saved the Senator
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#10 - 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.

Writer: Gary Rosen
Research and Destroy
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#11 - Research and Destroy

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1990

The Jump Street Cops are sent to investigate a college chemistry lab where it is suspected that new designer drugs are being manufactured.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: Gary Rosen
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A Change of Heart
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#12 - A Change of Heart

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1990

A lesbian student makes a pass at Hoffs when she and Capt. Fuller go undercover at a high school to learn the identity of a student who was a witness to a teacher's murder.

Directors: Jan Eliasberg
Back from the Future
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#13 - 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.

Directors: Peter DeLuise
Writer: David Stenn
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#14 - 2245

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1990

Hanson tries to convince a juvenile inmate on death row to appear in a film intended to keep his peers out of prison.

Directors: Kim Manners
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Hi Mom
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#15 - Hi Mom

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/12/1990

Hanson and Penhall expose a point shaving scheme when they go undercover to investigate the drug related death of a college basketball star.

Writer: Bill Nuss
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Awomp-Bomp-Aloobomb, Aloop Bamboom
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#16 - Awomp-Bomp-Aloobomb, Aloop Bamboom

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1990

Hanson and Penhall find a way to get out of the cold while remaining on the job as they trail a suspected bomber to Florida during spring break.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
La Bizca
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#17 - La Bizca

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1990

Penhall ends up taking his nephew back to America after he and Hanson travel to El Salvador in order to find Penhall's wife, whom they learn was killed in the fighting.

Directors: David Nutter
Last Chance High
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#18 - Last Chance High

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/19/1990

Donning their McQuaid brother aliases for one last time Hanson and Penhall discover a teenage girl who has kidnapped her baby sister to get her away from their abusive parents; while Penhall adjusts to becoming a father figure.

Directors: Kim Manners
Unfinished Business
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#19 - Unfinished Business

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/9/1990

A handicapped policewoman asks Fuller to send her undercover to investigate a series of attacks on handicapped women; however, Fuller also send in Hoffs in a wheelchair.

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Next Victim
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#20 - Next Victim

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/7/1989

Booker goes undercover as a radio DJ to discover who killed a controversial college radio personality by planting a bomb in his car.

Directors: James A. Contner
Parental Guidance Suggested
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#21 - Parental Guidance Suggested

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1989

While observing a family suspected of operating a burglary ring, Hoffs begins to suspect that a boy is being abused.

Wheels and Deals (2)
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#22 - Wheels and Deals (2)

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1989

Working on a tip from Booker, the Jump Street cops join a motorcycle caravan in order to bring Raymond Crane to justice.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
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Mike's P.O.V.
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#23 - Mike's P.O.V.

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1989

Hanson and Penhall investigate the murder of a high school teacher's wife and discover that the teacher hired one of his students to kill her.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
Writer: John Truby
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Stand by Your Man
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#24 - Stand by Your Man

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1989

While trying to expose a drug ring at a prestigious medical school, Hoffs is raped while on a date with one of the suspects who later claims that she seduced him.

Directors: Daniel Attias
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Out of Control
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#25 - Out of Control

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1989

Penhall and Ioki become rent a cops while Hanson becomes a member of a clique of thrill seeking kids who break into houses to annoy the rent a cops.

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