• Air date: 12 Apr '87 13 episodes
      21 Jump Street is an American police procedural crime drama television series that aired on the Fox Network and in first run syndication from April 12, 1987, to April 27, 1991, with a total of 103 episodes. The series focuses on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools, colleges, and other teenage venues. It was originally going to be titled Jump Street Chapel, after the deconsecrated church building in which the unit has its headquarters, but was changed at Fox's request so as not to mislead viewers into thinking it was a religious program. Created by Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell, the series was produced by Patrick Hasburgh Productions and Stephen J. Cannell Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Executive Producers included Hasburgh, Cannell, Steve Beers and Bill Nuss. The show was an early hit for the fledgling Fox Network, and was created to attract a younger audience. The final season aired in first-run...
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. Pilot (1)

      12 Apr '87
      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.
    • 2. Pilot (2)

      12 Apr '87
      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.
    • 3. America, What a Town

      19 Apr '87
      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.
    • 4. Don't Pet the Teacher

      26 Apr '87
      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.
    • 5. My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

      03 May '87
      Hanson and Penhall infiltrate an exclusive preppie clique to investigate a prank that left a girl dead.
    • 6. The Worst Night of Your Life

      10 May '87
      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.
    • 7. Gotta Finish the Riff

      17 May '87
      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.
    • 8. Bad Influence

      24 May '87
      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.
    • 9. Blindsided

      31 May '87
      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.
    • 10. Next Generation

      07 Jun '87
      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.
    • 11. Low and Away

      14 Jun '87
      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.
    • 12. 16 Blown to 35

      21 Jun '87
      Hoffs enrolls in a teen modeling school after several of its graduates end up appearing in pornography.
    • 13. Mean Streets and Pastel Houses

      28 Jun '87
      Hanson goes undercover as a punk rocker in an effort to stop a feud between two rival gangs from turning into a war.