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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Swallowed Alive
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/5/1989
Hanson becomes an inmate in a juvenile detention hall in order to investigate the murder of one of the inmates.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Loc'd Out (1)
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/14/1989
Hanson finds himself on the wrong side of the law after he decides to seek revenge on members of a street gang who shot and seriously wounded Ioki.
#11 - Hell Week
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/18/1988
Hanson and Ioki must endure hell week as fraternity pledges in order to gain the confidence and get evidence on a gang rape which occurred at a frat party.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#16 - Slippin' Into Darkness
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/1988
Hoffs and Ioki go undercover in a Guardian Angel-type street patrol whose members have a vendetta out for a drug dealer who Hanson is trying to set up for a bust.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Besieged (2)
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1987
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - Second Chances
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/27/1991
Hoffs and Mac investigate a car theft ring near a high school, and the prime suspect is a pupil of Hoffs.