The Best 21 Jump Street Episodes
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List of the best 21 Jump Street episodes, as voted on by other fans of the series. 21 Jump Street was a police/crime drama series which aired on Fox from 1987-1991. With so many memorable episodes of the show, it's hard to trust just one person's opinion of what the top 21 Jump Street episodes of all time are.
Fans of 21 Jump Street are extremely passionate about the show, and there is often debate over which episodes are better than others. That's why this list exists- so you can vote for your favorites and we can find out once and for all what everyone thinks the best episode is. List features episodes like Shirts and Skins, and Things We Said Today. What is the best 21 Jump Street episode of all time? Look below and find out.Most divisive: Coach of the Year
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I'm OK, You Need Work
Season 2 Episode 15: Hanson ends up being trapped inside an in-patient adolescent abuse center when he goes undercover to investigate reports of patient mistreatment. - 2
Blindsided
Season 1 Episode 9: A sexually abused coed tries to hire Jump Street's Officer Hanson to kill her policeman father. - 3
Swallowed Alive
Season 3 Episode 9: Hanson, Penhall, Booker and Ioki pose as inmates in juvenile lock-up in order to learn how heroin is entering the facility. - 4
Orpheus 3.3
Season 2 Episode 16: Hanson stalks a ruthless killer to avenge the cold-blooded murder of his girlfriend. - 5
I'm OK- You Need Work
February 21, 1988 - 6
Pilot (2)
April 12, 1987 - 7
Next Generation
Season 1 Episode 10: Jump Street's Tom Hanson is sent undercover to bait a student loan shark, but risks blowing his cover when his school quiz team qualifies for the televised citywide finals. - 8
A Big Disease with a Little Name
February 07, 1988 - 9
Champagne High
Season 2 Episode 17: Hanson and Penhall pose as the battling McQuaid brothers to infiltrate a gang of students being bussed from the wrong side of the tracks. - 10
Besieged (1)
September 27, 1987 - 11
Mean Streets and Pastel Houses
June 28, 1987 - 12
Hell Week
Season 3 Episode 6: Jump Street goes undercover on a college campus to investigate a rape on fraternity row. - 13
Don't Pet the Teacher
April 26, 1987 - 14
Pilot (1)
April 12, 1987 - 15
Fun with Animals
November 06, 1988 - 16
Gotta Finish the Riff
May 17, 1987 - 17
Draw the Line
Season 4 Episode 1: While in the process of clearing Hanson of all charges, Booker is forced to resign. - 18
Don't Pet the Teacher
Season 1 Episode 4: Placed undercover to investigate repeated burglaries and vandalism at South Central High, Officer Hanson falls for his English teacher, who's also the object of others' desires. - 19
Besieged (2)
October 04, 1987 - 20
Best Years of Your Life
May 01, 1988 - 21
My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
May 03, 1987 - 22
Blinded by the Thousand Points of Light
Season 3 Episode 17: The Jump Street cops go undercover on the streets as homeless runaways to find a missing teenager. - 23
Say it Ain't So Pete
Season 4 Episode 2: Hanson and Penhall go undercover at an off campus bar to investigate student beatings only to discover an illegal gambling ring. - 24
America, What a Town
Season 1 Episode 3: Hanson and Penhall infiltrate a stolen car ring operating out of a high school auto shop. - 25
Don't Stretch the Rainbow
November 01, 1987 - 26
La Bizca
February 26, 1990 - 27
Blu Flu
January 29, 1989 - 28
Last Chance High
Season 4 Episode 21: While undercover as the McQuaid Brothers at a continuation school to investigate a series of robberies, Hanson and Penhall encounter a 15-year-old girl hiding her baby sister. - 29
Low & Away
Season 1 Episode 11: Penhall goes undercover as a high school baseball jock to protect the school's pitching ace, a mobster's son who's unknowingly the object of a vendetta - 30
Big Disease with a Little Name
Season 2 Episode 13: Frustratingly helpless in a unique case he can't solve, Hanson befriends a teen AIDS patient he is asked to protect. - 31
Mike's P.O.V.
November 20, 1989 - 32
Blackout
June 18, 1990 - 33
You Oughta be in Prison
Season 2 Episode 9: Officer Hanson is kidnapped endangering his life, and that of a Hollywood heartthrob he was sent to protect. - 34
Fear & Loathing with Russell Buckins
Season 2 Episode 12: Officer Hanson experiences a late teenage rebellion, putting his friendships and his future in jeopardy. - 35
Chapel of Love
Season 2 Episode 14: To pacify their dateless state on Valentine's Day, the Jump Street squad plays poker and reminisces about their worst dates, while Hanson remembers his prom night when his father was killed. - 36
Eternal Flame
Season 4 Episode 3: Working undercover at a nightclub, Hanson rekindles an old romance while uncovering a drug- and money-laundering operation. - 37
My Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades
Season 1 Episode 5: A night on the town lands a young girl in the morgue forcing Officers Hanson and Penhall to go undercover at the exclusive West Chadway Prep School where big time drug dealing is an extracurricular activity. - 38
The Blue Flu
Season 3 Episode 8: When the police union calls a strike, the Jump Street cops are torn over which side of the picket line to place their allegiance. - 39
Honor Bound
Season 2 Episode 8: Hanson, Penhall, and Ioki investigate a rash of brutal assaults on gay men. - 40
Pilot, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 1: Although he graduated at the top of his class in the police academy, Tommy Hanson's baby face has made him a liability to his partners. Faced with the prospect of reassignment to a desk job. Hanson's only other option is to go back to high school - undercover -- with a special unit of the police force investigating criminal activity. Part 1 of 2. - 41
Crossfire
March 30, 1991 - 42
Return of Russell Buckins
Season 3 Episode 12: When a dangerously revealing magazine artide about the Jump Street program is written by Russell Buckins, Hanson is suspended and goes gunning for his old friend. - 43
How I Saved the Senator
May 07, 1990 - 44
In the Custody of a Clown
Season 2 Episode 1: The Jump Street team goes undercover to investigate a suspected kidnapper Edison Coulter. - 45
Woolly Bullies
Season 3 Episode 11: While trying to infiltrate a high school computer club, Penhall is picked on by a bully which prompts stories from each of the cops who were all terrorized by a bully at some time in their lives. - 46
Research & Destroy
Season 4 Episode 14: Working undercover to locate a chemist making a dangerous synthetic heroin, Ioki befriends a Chinese student being harassed for his poptical activities, while Hoffs is courted by a nerdy young college student. - 47
School's Out
Season 2 Episode 22: The Jump Street cops must find temporary jobs when school's out for summer, and maybe forever. - 48
Boys Just Wanna Have Fun
Season 1 Episode 8: A 16-year-old high school hooker Lauren Carson turns tricks in exchange for home security codes and leads Jump Street "john" Ioki on a trail of burglary, prostitution and drugs. - 49
Two for the Road
Season 2 Episode 4: The Jump Street squad puts a sting on a bar serving alcohol to under-age kids and ironically has to cope with the drunk driving arrest of their own captain. - 50
How Much is That Body in the Window?
Season 2 Episode 10: When an Olympic-bound gymnast dies of complications linked to a steroid overdose, Officers Penhall and Hoffs go undercover on the athletically competitive Augustana High School campus to discover the source. - 51
Stand by your Man
Season 4 Episode 8: While working undercover as a medical student, Hoffs is raped by a fellow student but is reluctant to report the crime. - 52
Sixteen Blown to Thirty-Five
Season 1 Episode 12: Officers Penhall and Hoffs go under, then out of cover in a teenage modeling agency to arrest the leaders of a high school porno ring. - 53
Nemesis
Season 3 Episode 14: Booker deals with the guilt of knowing an innocent student has been killed because his friends mistook him for a narc. - 54
Old Haunts in New Age
Season 4 Episode 6: While investigating a series of fires, Penhall and Hanson meet a student whose psychic powers lead them to an arsonist. - 55
Partners, Part 2
Season 3 Episode 20: Although forensics proves that a third gun was fired the night Officer Tower was killed, a jury finds Hanson guilty of murder. - 56
Fathers & Sons
Season 3 Episode 15: When the Jump Street cops are on the verge of busting the mayor's son for drug dealing, the mayor steps in and suspends Fuller. - 57
Next Victim
Season 3 Episode 18: When the controversial host of a radio talk show is nearly killed in an explosion, Booker takes over the show in an attempt to flush out the guilty party. - 58
Wheels & Deals - Part 1
Season 4 Episode 10: On a tip from Booker, Hanson, Penhall and Ioki embark on an out-of-town motorcycle trip to bust Raymond Crane, the man responsible fox Ioki getting shot, Hanson landing in jail and Booker losing his badge. Part 1 of 2. - 59
Beseiged, Part 1
Season 2 Episode 2: A sixteen-year-old crack dealer is mysteriously murdered and the Jump Street squad goes undercover in the seedy world of narcotics and prostitution. - 60
Beseiged, Part 2
Season 2 Episode 3: When the Jump Street unit is faced wave of crack-related deaths, officer Penhall suspects that a hired outside police expert is responsible.
