The BEST episodes of Booker season 1

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

Dennis Booker who once worked for the LAPD is now hired by the US office of a large Japanese Company to investigate some suspicious insurance claims. He hates authority and being told what to do, he even goes on his own missions to benefit his friends and family, not the government. Booker ran alongside season 4 of 21 Jump Street and is a spin-off of 21 Jump Street

Last Updated: 12/13/2024Network: FOXStatus: Ended
High Rise
star
7.67
3 votes

#1 - High Rise

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1989

It's up to Booker and Elaine to defeat gunmen who have entered Teshima Tower, sealed off the building and taken the company's top executives hostage.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
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Flat Out
star
7.33
3 votes

#2 - Flat Out

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1989

Assigned to bring in a bail jumper bonded by Teshima Corp., Booker finds himself in the middle of a case of mistaken identities.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
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Wheels and Deals (1)
star
7.25
4 votes

#3 - Wheels and Deals (1)

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1989

Booker sets out to bring down Raymond Crane, the unethical businessman who cost Booker his job on the police force.

Directors: Mark Sobel
Hacker
star
7.00
1 votes

#4 - Hacker

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/1990

During the course of an investigation into a mysterious computer virus, Booker befriends a young hacker who is being hunted by crooked Federal agents.

Directors: Bryan Spicer
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Black Diamond Run
star
7.00
2 votes

#5 - Black Diamond Run

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1990

Booker goes undercover as a ski instructor at an exclusive resort to protect a Teshima-insured diamond from a suspected jewel thief.

Writer: Seth Perlman
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Love Life
star
7.00
1 votes

#6 - Love Life

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1990

Booker becomes entangled in the web of a high-class prostitution ring when he befriends a prostitute suspected of murdering one of her clients.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
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Mobile Home
star
7.00
1 votes

#7 - Mobile Home

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/29/1990

Booker helps Tony search for his first home, which has vanished off its lot, stolen by three siblings hunting for hidden treasure.

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The Pump
star
6.50
2 votes

#8 - The Pump

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1989

Booker misses the action on the street, until he's marked for payback for the death of a gang member who shot his former Jump Street colleague, officer Judy Hoffs.

Directors: Mark Sobel
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Bête Noir
star
6.50
2 votes

#9 - Bête Noir

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1989

Booker weaves a web to snare the black widow he suspects of killing two husbands for insurance money.

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The Life and Death of Chick Sterling
star
6.50
2 votes

#10 - The Life and Death of Chick Sterling

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/1990

Booker is enlisted to help Chick and his old army buddy track down members of a foreign military outfit threatening to assassinate them.

Directors: Kim Manners
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Crazy
star
6.50
2 votes

#11 - Crazy

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/15/1990

A crazed killer Booker testified against escapes from custody and leads him on a game of cat and mouse.

Directors: Bill Corcoran
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All You Gotta Do is Do It
star
6.00
2 votes

#12 - All You Gotta Do is Do It

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1989

Booker gets entangled in a murder investigation after he offers Alicia assistance in tracking down her ex-husband who is illegally harboring their daughter.

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Booker's Dad (aka Father's Day)
star
6.00
2 votes

#13 - Booker's Dad (aka Father's Day)

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1990

Booker has trouble relating to his father, whom he believed had abandoned his family fourteen years earlier, when his dad shows up to reveal that he was actually in the Witness Protection Program and now needs his son's help in a mob related case.

Directors: Jan Eliasberg
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Molly and Eddie
star
6.00
1 votes

#14 - Molly and Eddie

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/8/1990

A six-year-old girl manages to steal Booker's heart as he searches for her missing father, a repo man whom he believes is involved in an auto theft ring.

Directors: David Nutter
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Wedding Bell Blues
star
6.00
1 votes

#15 - Wedding Bell Blues

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/1/1990

An old high-school friend comes to Booker for help when he finds himself engaged to two women, both of whom have vengeful, violent relatives.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
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Reunion
star
6.00
2 votes

#16 - Reunion

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/25/1990

At his high-school reunion, Booker is asked by his former girlfriend to find her fiancé, the guy she dumped Booker for, who has disappeared.

Directors: Jan Eliasberg
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Who Framed Roger Thornton?
star
6.00
1 votes

#17 - Who Framed Roger Thornton?

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/1990

Booker gets some unwanted help from Suzanne who wants to share the reward being offered for finding the killer of a fashion designer.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
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Cementhead
star
6.00
2 votes

#18 - Cementhead

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1989

Booker faces off against his childhood idol, a pugnacious hockey star who's trying to make a comeback on a Teshima-owned team.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
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Someone Stole Lucille
star
6.00
2 votes

#19 - Someone Stole Lucille

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1989

Booker joins a Japanese executive from the home office on an all night search for singer B.B. King's stolen guitar, which is insured by Teshima.

Directors: Kim Manners
Writer: Bill Nuss
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Booker
star
5.80
5 votes

#20 - Booker

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1989

Former Jump Street cop, Dennis Booker, is hired to head up a new investigative unit for Teshima Corp. On his first day, the ever rebellious Booker blows off his first assignment, opting instead to help his secretary, Elaine, clear a man she feels she wrongly convicted when she was a juror.

Directors: David Jackson
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Razing Arrizola
star
5.50
2 votes

#21 - Razing Arrizola

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1989

A busy Booker gets involved with a Teshima exec, dodges a supposedly reformed ex-con and tries to keep a homeless kid from going bad.

Directors: Rob Bowman
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The Red Dot
star
5.50
2 votes

#22 - The Red Dot

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/1990

Booker is stalked by a mysterious hitman while working on a missing persons case.

Directors: Mario Azzopardi
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