21 Jump Street: Season 1

1987 · 13 episodes · ★ 8.5

What Season 1 of 21 Jump Street

Metropolis, a fictional city in the state of Evergreen, is home to a special police squad that works out of an old church on Jump Street. Its officers look so young that they can pass for students. When regular cops can't go undercover, they enter high schools and, less often, colleges to crack down on drug trafficking and other crimes among young people. Tom Hanson, played by Johnny Depp, is one of them, a 21-year-old officer whose youthful looks often get him into trouble on the job. The team has to win the trust of classmates, and the series follows each case from inside the classroom.

13episodes

Apr 12, 1987premiered

Jun 28, 1987latest episode

10.1 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Pilot (1)
Apr 12, 1987 · 46 min · ★ 9.4
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Patrick Hasburgh · Starring: Brandon Douglas, Blu Mankuma, Scott Kraft, Richard Sargent
1x02 Pilot (2)
Apr 12, 1987 · 44 min
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Patrick Hasburgh · Starring: Brandon Douglas, Richard McGonagle, Blu Mankuma, Scott Kraft
1x03 America, What a Town
Apr 19, 1987 · 48 min
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.
Directing: Larry Shaw · Writing: Bill Nuss · Starring: Traci Lind, Billy Jayne, Steve Antin, Ray Abruzzo
1x04 Don't Pet the Teacher
Apr 26, 1987 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Les Sheldon · Writing: Clifton Campbell · Starring: Geoffrey Blake, Ben Bass, Janne Mortil, Leah Ayres
1x05 My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
May 3, 1987 · 46 min
Hanson and Penhall infiltrate an exclusive preppie clique to investigate a prank that left a girl dead.
Directing: Gary Winter · Writing: Bill Nuss · Starring: Josh Brolin, David Oliver, Mitchell Anderson, Jamie Bozian
1x06 The Worst Night of Your Life
May 10, 1987 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Rob Bowman · Writing: Patrick Hasburgh · Starring: Ken Tremblett, Troy Byer, Lezlie Deane, Winifred Freedman
1x07 Gotta Finish the Riff
May 17, 1987 · 47 min
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Patrick Hasburgh, Bill Nuss · Starring: Steven Williams, Robert Picardo, Blair Underwood, Panchito Gómez
1x08 Bad Influence
May 24, 1987 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Paul Bernbaum · Starring: Steven Williams, Scott Schwartz, Liane Curtis, Byron Thames
1x09 Blindsided
May 31, 1987 · 47 min
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.
Directing: David Jackson · Writing: Jonathan Lemkin · Starring: Steven Williams, Sal Jenco, Sherilyn Fenn, Chris Eastman
1x10 Next Generation
Jun 7, 1987 · 47 min
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.
Directing: David Nutter · Writing: Paul Bernbaum · Starring: Steven Williams, Sal Jenco, Jason Lively, Beatrice Boepple
1x11 Low and Away
Jun 14, 1987 · 47 min
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.
Directing: Bill Corcoran · Writing: Bill Nuss, Paul Bernbaum · Starring: Steven Williams, Sal Jenco, Patrick Breen, Michael Fairman
1x12 16 Blown to 35
Jun 21, 1987 · 47 min
Hoffs enrolls in a teen modeling school after several of its graduates end up appearing in pornography.
Directing: James Whitmore Jr. · Writing: Clifton Campbell · Starring: Steven Williams, Sal Jenco, Tasia Valenza, Sarah Buxton
1x13 Mean Streets and Pastel Houses Season Finale
Jun 28, 1987 · 47 min
Hanson goes undercover as a punk rocker in an effort to stop a feud between two rival gangs from turning into a war.
Directing: James Whitmore Jr. · Writing: Jonathan Lemkin · Starring: Steven Williams, Jason Priestley, William B. Davis, Steve Marshall