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: 6/8/2026Network: FOXStatus: Ended
Pilot (2)
star
7.95
80 votes

#1 - Pilot (2)

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

Directors: Kim Manners
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Pilot (1)
star
7.78
96 votes

#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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Swallowed Alive
star
7.53
15 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: James A. Contner
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After School Special
star
7.50
20 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: David Jackson
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Mike's P.O.V.
star
7.50
8 votes

#5 - 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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Slippin' Into Darkness
star
7.47
17 votes

#6 - 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.

Directors: James A. Contner
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Christmas in Saigon
star
7.44
18 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: Kim Manners
Writer: Bill Nuss
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Hell Week
star
7.44
16 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: Jonathan Wacks
Writer: Bill Nuss
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Besieged (2)
star
7.42
19 votes

#9 - Besieged (2)

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1987

Directors: Bill Corcoran
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Out of Control
star
7.40
10 votes

#10 - 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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America, What a Town
star
7.40
75 votes

#11 - 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
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Besieged (1)
star
7.38
21 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Bill Corcoran
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Parental Guidance Suggested
star
7.38
8 votes

#13 - 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.

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God is a Bullet
star
7.36
11 votes

#14 - 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.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: John Truby
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Gotta Finish the Riff
star
7.36
36 votes

#15 - 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.

Directors: Kim Manners
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Blindsided
star
7.35
31 votes

#16 - 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.

Directors: David Jackson
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2245
star
7.33
9 votes

#17 - 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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My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
star
7.29
35 votes

#18 - 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.

Directors: Gary Winter
Writer: Bill Nuss
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Next Victim
star
7.27
15 votes

#19 - 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
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Honor Bound
star
7.25
20 votes

#20 - 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.

Directors: Bill Corcoran
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Blinded by the Thousand Points of Light
star
7.23
13 votes

#21 - Blinded by the Thousand Points of Light

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/30/1989

Undercover looking for a person who has been preying on homeless teens, the Jump Street cops learn what it is really like to live on the street.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
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I'm OK- You Need Work
star
7.22
18 votes

#22 - 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.

Directors: Neill Fearnley
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Loc'd Out (1)
star
7.20
10 votes

#23 - 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.

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A Big Disease with a Little Name
star
7.19
16 votes

#24 - 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.

Directors: Neill Fearnley
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Loc'd Out (2)
star
7.18
11 votes

#25 - Loc'd Out (2)

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/21/1989

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