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21 Jump Street
1987 - 1991 7.2 (168 votes) 5 Seasons
Genres
Crime Mystery Drama
Networks
FOX
Created By
Stephen J. Cannell
Patrick Hasburgh

21 Jump Street

Too cool for school.

Overview

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

Key Crew

Producer: Stephen J. Cannell

Top Cast

Holly Robinson Peete
Holly Robinson Peete

Judy Hoffs

Michael Bendetti
Michael Bendetti

Anthony McCann

Peter DeLuise
Peter DeLuise

Doug Penhall

Steven Williams
Steven Williams

Adam Fuller

Michael DeLuise
Michael DeLuise

Joey Penhall

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1987)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot (1)
1987-04-12

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. His first case involves catching drug dealers.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 2: Pilot (2)
1987-04-12

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. His first case involves catching drug dealers.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 3: America, What a Town
1987-04-19

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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 4: Don't Pet the Teacher
1987-04-26

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 5: My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
1987-05-03

Hanson and Penhall infiltrate an exclusive preppie clique to investigate a prank that left a girl dead.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 6: The Worst Night of Your Life
1987-05-10

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Gotta Finish the Riff
1987-05-17

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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 8: Bad Influence
1987-05-24

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 9: Blindsided
1987-05-31

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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 10: Next Generation
1987-06-07

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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 11: Low and Away
1987-06-14

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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 12: 16 Blown to 35
1987-06-21

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

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 13: Mean Streets and Pastel Houses
1987-06-28

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

Runtime: 47 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1987)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: In the Custody of a Clown
1987-09-20

The Jump Street unit discovers that a boy who was being used as a pawn by his feuding parents faked his kidnapping with the aid of his grandfather to get away from his parents.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Besieged (1)
1987-09-27

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 3: Besieged (2)
1987-10-04

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 4: Two for the Road
1987-10-11

The Jump Street unit is investigating a counterfeit drivers license ring when Captain Fuller gets arrested for drunk driving.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: After School Special
1987-10-18

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 6: Higher Education
1987-10-25

A pregnant school girl fingers Ioki as the father to be.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 7: Don't Stretch the Rainbow
1987-11-01

Racial violence threatens to break out at an integrated school when word leaks out that a white student got a black student pregnant.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 8: Honor Bound
1987-11-08

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 9: You Ought to Be in Prison
1987-11-15

Hanson and a film star he had been assigned to protect are kidnapped by an escaped murderer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: How Much is That Body in the Window?
1987-11-22

Penhall gets close to a football player suspected of using steroids at a school where an olympic hopeful gymnast died after a performance due to steroid abuse. Hanson considers becoming a big brother.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 11: Christmas in Saigon
1987-12-18

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Fear and Loathing with Russell Buckins
1987-12-20

Hanson contemplates leaving the force and leaves town instead of going to a refresher course at the police academy he and Penhall had been assigned to take after they went drag racing to try to catch a hit and run driver.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 13: A Big Disease with a Little Name
1988-02-07

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 14: Chapel of Love
1988-02-14

Past romances that didn't have happy endings are the subject of conversation at a Valentine Day Eve poker game.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: I'm OK- You Need Work
1988-02-21

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 16: Orpheus 3.3
1988-02-28

Hanson blames himself for failing to prevent the shooting death of his girlfriend in a convenience store robbery and becomes obsessed with revenge.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 17: Champagne High
1988-03-06

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.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 18: Brother Hanson & the Miracle of Renner's Pond
1988-03-13

When a small-town teacher refuses to teach the theory of evolution after his son has a near-death experience, Hanson infiltrates the school to try to discover who's behind the recent burning of the science books.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 19: Raising Marijuana
1988-04-17

Penhall and Ioki go undercover as the ""Swark Twins"" to get in with teenage boys working for drug smugglers. Meanwhile, Hoffs becomes romantically involved with the head drug smuggler.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Best Years of Your Life
1988-05-01

The suicide of a popular student, whom Hanson and Penhall had arrested the night before, leaves his family, fellow students and Hanson in a state of depression and forces Penhall to relive bitter childhood memories.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Cory and Dean Got Married
1988-05-08

Hoffs and Penhall must deal with a pursuing husband when they are assigned to escort a girl arrested for killing her father when he tried to prevent her from eloping.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 22: School's Out
1988-05-22

Hanson goes undercover to find a student who is blowing up toilets. Meanwhile, Fuller must convince the higher-ups that the Jump Street program, which is scheduled to be deactivated over the summer, should be reactivated in the fall, and Doug decides it's time to grow up.

Runtime: 46 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1988)

No overview available.

20 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Fun with Animals
1988-11-06

Hanson is assigned Booker as his new partner and the two don't hit it off as Booker's racist attitudes lead Hanson to believe that Booker raped a black student.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 2: Slippin' Into Darkness
1988-11-11

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 3: The Currency We Trade In
1988-11-20

A popular sports writer finds his whole life ruined when Penhall believes his ex-wife's allegations of his being a child molester.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 4: Coach of the Year
1988-11-27

Penhall and Booker join a high school football team in attempt to prove that the coach's negligence led to the paralyzing injury of one of the players.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 5: Whose Choice is it Anyways?
1988-12-11

Hoffs goes undercover as a pregnant teen to investigate threats of violence being made to a family planning center by anti-abortionists.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 6: Hell Week
1988-12-18

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 7: The Dragon and the Angel
1989-01-15

While working undercover in a Vietnamese streetgang, Ioki learns of a communist businessman who may be able to help his grandmother who is still in Vietnam.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 8: Blu Flu
1989-01-29

Everyone in the Jump Street unit gets blue flu when the police force goes on strike forcing Captain Fuller to team up with a rookie cadet.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 9: Swallowed Alive
1989-02-05

Hanson becomes an inmate in a juvenile detention hall in order to investigate the murder of one of the inmates.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 10: What About Love?
1989-02-12

Dorothy and Penhall split up forcing Penhall to move in with Ioki. Hoffs becomes involved with a city inspector, who is auditing Jump Street's records.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 11: Woolly Bullies
1989-02-19

Penhall's encounter with a bully while undercover causes the members of the Jump Street unit to reminisce about their dealings with bullies while they were in school.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 12: The Dreaded Return of Russell Buckins
1989-02-26

Hanson goes after an old friend who wrote an article exposing the Jump Street program causing Hanson to get suspended from duty.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 13: A.W.O.L.
1989-03-19

An old Army buddy comes to Fuller seeking the Jump Street unit's help in bringing in an AWOL soldier who will be classified a deserter if he doesn't return to base within two days.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 14: Nemesis
1989-03-26

Booker is laiden with guilt when after he infiltrates a gang of drug users that kill one of their own whom they suspect is an undercover cop.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 15: Fathers and Sons
1989-04-09

Fuller and the Jump Street unit are given a lot of flak and told to pull off the case when city hall learns Hanson and Penhall are about to bust the mayor's son on drug dealing charges.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 16: High High
1989-04-23

The Jump Street cops enroll in a performing arts school to bust a drug ring being run there.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: Blinded by the Thousand Points of Light
1989-04-30

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 18: Next Victim
1989-05-07

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

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 19: Loc'd Out (1)
1989-05-14

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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 20: Loc'd Out (2)
1989-05-21

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1989)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Draw the Line
1989-09-18

Booker resigns from the police force after solving a case that gets Hanson out of prison.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 2: Say It Ain't So, Pete
1989-09-25

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

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 3: Eternal Flame
1989-10-02

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

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 4: Come from the Shadows
1989-10-09

Penhall finds himself falling for an illegal immigrant from El Salvador when the Jump Street unit is sent in to investigate a priest suspected of selling babies.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 5: God is a Bullet
1989-10-16

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 6: Old Haunts in a New Age
1989-10-30

During a Halloween string of high school fires, Hanson becomes a bit skeptical of a teen age psychic claiming to be able to predict where the next fire will occur.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 7: Out of Control
1989-11-06

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 8: Stand by Your Man
1989-11-13

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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 9: Mike's P.O.V.
1989-11-20

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 10: Wheels and Deals (II)
1989-11-27

Working on a tip from Booker, the Jump Street cops join a motorcycle caravan in order to bring Raymond Crane to justice. The crossover starts on Booker S01E08 Deals and Wheels (I).

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 11: Parental Guidance Suggested
1989-12-04

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

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 12: Things We Said Today
1989-12-18

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

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 13: Research and Destroy
1990-01-08

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

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 14: A Change of Heart
1990-01-15

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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 15: Back from the Future
1990-01-29

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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 16: 2245
1990-02-05

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

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 17: Hi Mom
1990-02-12

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

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 18: Awomp-Bomp-Aloobomb, Aloop Bamboom
1990-02-19

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 19: La Bizca
1990-02-26

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Last Chance High
1990-03-19

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 21: Unfinished Business
1990-04-09

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 22: Shirts and Skins
1990-04-30

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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 23: How I Saved the Senator
1990-05-07

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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 24: Rounding Third
1990-05-14

After volunteering to become a Little League coach Penhall learns that one of the players was kidnapped by his father, from his mother and step-father.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 25: Everyday is Christmas
1990-05-21

After botching an assignment, Penhall is transferred to a different precinct where he learns the cops routinely accept bribes and finds himself the subject of a Jump Street investigation.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 26: Blackout
1990-06-18

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.

Runtime: 47 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (1990)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Tunnel of Love
1990-10-13

Hoffs and Garrett must deal with a DEA officer while working undercover at a massage parlor suspected of being a front for a drug operation.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 2: Back to School
1990-10-20

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

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 3: Buddy System
1990-10-27

McCann joins up to be the partner of a mentally handicapped youth in a school buddy system, to investigate the murder of the boy's former partner.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 4: Poison
1990-11-03

Doug falls for a narcotics officer with questionable tactics and a possible drug problem herself.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 5: Just Say No! High
1990-11-10

Hoffs is suspended from the force when while working undercover in high school she is forced to take a mandatory drug test and the results come back positive.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 6: Brothers
1990-11-17

Doug has a strained reunion with his estranged younger brother Joey when Joey is assigned to the Jump St. team. Doug comes to his aid after Joey is brainwashed into joining a religious cult he was investigating.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 7: This Ain't No Summer Camp
1990-11-24

Doug and Joey enroll in a wilderness camp for troubled teams to investigate a murder that happened there and find themselves constantly in trouble with the ex-marine who runs the place.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 8: The Girl Next Door
1990-12-01

While investigating the hit and run murder of a high school football star, McCann becomes involved with a cheerleader who has AIDS.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 9: Diplomas for Sale
1990-12-08

Doug and Joey enroll in a college where good students are mysteriously being turned into criminals.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 10: Number One with A Bullet
1990-12-15

Doug is seriously wounded while on a case and while the doctors try to save his life he enters limbo where the people he meets there cause him to reconsider his choice of career.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Equal Protection
1991-01-05

After discovering that some white officers are responsible for beating and harassing black teenagers, Hoffs, with Fuller's help, try to convict them.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 12: The Education of Terry Carver
1991-01-14

Hoffs, Joey and Mac help a raped girl that has no proof to convict the attacker.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 13: Baby Blues
1991-01-21

Joey feels responsible for a baby girl he is taking care in a experimental program and try to find her drug addicted mother.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 14: Film at Eleven
1991-02-09

After finding the missing daughter of a famous reporter, Mac tries to solve the mistery behind the missing.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: In the Name of Love
1991-02-16

Mac has to date a daughter of a reputed drug dealer in a confidential FBI case at the same time he is trying to rebuild a relantionship with an old flame.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 16: Coppin' Out
1991-02-23

Mac and Joey try to find the responsibles for vandalizing elderly homes. The problem is that one of the prime suspects is the son of Fuller's girlfriend.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 17: Under the Influence
1991-03-23

McCann infiltrates a group of devil worshipers whose leader has enthralled a teenage boy with her beauty.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: Crossfire
1991-03-30

Hoffs is charged in a civil suit for a man she has arrested for solicitation. At court, she has to confront the man and his representative, her boyfriend's vindictive ex-wife.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 19: Wasted
1991-04-06

Mac goes undercover as a football player when a high school football star dies from an unexplained heart attack.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 20: Bad Day at Blackburn
1991-04-13

Fuller, Hoffs and Mac go undercover to investigate a gang of high school extortionists operating in a high school.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 21: Homegirls
1991-04-20

After seeing a teenager being murdered, Hoffs infiltrates the girl's street gang to find out who killed her.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 22: Second Chances
1991-04-27

Hoffs and Mac investigate a car theft ring near a high school, and the prime suspect is a pupil of Hoffs.

Runtime: 44 min

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