The BEST episodes of 21 Jump Street season 1

Every episode of 21 Jump Street season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of 21 Jump Street season 1!

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: 3/14/2024Network: FOXStatus: Ended
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Pilot (2)
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7.97
90 votes

#1 - Pilot (2)

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

Directors: Kim Manners
Pilot (1)
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7.68
116 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
My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
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7.68
37 votes

#3 - 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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Gotta Finish the Riff
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7.51
39 votes

#4 - 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
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7.44
34 votes

#5 - 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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America, What a Town
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7.39
80 votes

#6 - 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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Don't Pet the Teacher
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7.20
71 votes

#7 - 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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Next Generation
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7.17
29 votes

#8 - Next Generation

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/7/1987

Hanson who is out to catch a loan shark finds his cover threatened when his high school quiz team makes it to the semi finals which are to be broadcast on TV.

Directors: David Nutter
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16 Blown to 35
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7.04
26 votes

#9 - 16 Blown to 35

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/21/1987

Hoffs enrolls in a teen modeling school after several of its graduates end up appearing in pornography.

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Bad Influence
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7.03
30 votes

#10 - Bad Influence

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/24/1987

Hanson and Penhall try to locate some missing juveniles while Ioki tries to find a link between a teenage prostitution ring and a series of burglaries.

Directors: Kim Manners
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Mean Streets and Pastel Houses
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6.88
26 votes

#11 - Mean Streets and Pastel Houses

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/28/1987

Hanson goes undercover as a punk rocker in an effort to stop a feud between two rival gangs from turning into a war.

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The Worst Night of Your Life
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6.88
41 votes

#12 - The Worst Night of Your Life

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/10/1987

Hoffs is not convinced that the captured suspect in an arson case at a Catholic girls school is the guilty party and believes that the real culprit will strike again at the school's prom.

Directors: Rob Bowman
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Low and Away
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6.64
28 votes

#13 - Low and Away

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/14/1987

Penhall joins the school baseball team in order to keep an eye on one of its star players, whose life has been threatened when his father agrees to testify against the mob.

Directors: Bill Corcoran
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