Too cool for school.
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.
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.
Writer: Clifton Campbell
Air date: 1987-09-20
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Jonathan Lemkin
Air date: 1987-09-27
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Jonathan Lemkin
Air date: 1987-10-04
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Paul Bernbaum
Air date: 1987-10-11
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: The Jump Street unit is investigating a counterfeit drivers license ring when Captain Fuller gets arrested for drunk driving.
Writer: David Jackson
Air date: 1987-10-18
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: E. Paul Edwards
Air date: 1987-10-25
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: A pregnant school girl fingers Ioki as the father to be.
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
Air date: 1987-11-01
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: Racial violence threatens to break out at an integrated school when word leaks out that a white student got a black student pregnant.
Writer: E. Paul Edwards
Air date: 1987-11-08
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Bill Nuss
Air date: 1987-11-15
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Hanson and a film star he had been assigned to protect are kidnapped by an escaped murderer.
Writer: Clifton Campbell
Air date: 1987-11-22
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Bill Nuss
Air date: 1987-12-18
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Gary Skeen Hall
Air date: 1987-12-20
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
Air date: 1988-02-07
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Jonathan Lemkin
Air date: 1988-02-14
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Past romances that didn't have happy endings are the subject of conversation at a Valentine Day Eve poker game.
Writer: Clifton Campbell
Air date: 1988-02-21
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Bill Nuss
Air date: 1988-02-28
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: Hanson blames himself for failing to prevent the shooting death of his girlfriend in a convenience store robbery and becomes obsessed with revenge.
Writer: Paul Bernbaum
Air date: 1988-03-06
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: E. Paul Edwards
Air date: 1988-03-13
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Jonathan Lemkin
Air date: 1988-04-17
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Jonathan Lemkin
Air date: 1988-05-01
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Clifton Campbell
Air date: 1988-05-08
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Eric Blakeney
Air date: 1988-05-22
Runtime: 46 min
Overview: 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.