21 Jump Street: Season 2

1987 · 22 episodes · ★ 8.1

What Season 2 of 21 Jump Street

The second season keeps the series' core format. The squad continues working out of the old church on Jump Street in Metropolis, and its officers keep posing as students. Tom Hanson, played by Johnny Depp, leads the team alongside Penhall, Hoffs, Ioki and Captain Fuller. The cases are varied: drug trafficking, prostitution, bars serving alcohol to minors, racial tensions at high schools and athletes using steroids. In every mission, the officers must earn the trust of their classmates without raising suspicion.

22episodes

Sep 20, 1987premiered

May 22, 1988latest episode

16.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 In the Custody of a Clown
Sep 20, 1987 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Clifton Campbell · Starring: Sal Jenco, Joshua John Miller, Lillian Lehman, Barney Martin
2x02 Besieged (1)
Sep 27, 1987 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Bill Corcoran · Writing: Jonathan Lemkin · Starring: Bruce A. Young, Réal Andrews, Leanne Bertrand, Cory Dagg
2x03 Besieged (2)
Oct 4, 1987 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Bill Corcoran · Writing: Jonathan Lemkin · Starring: Sal Jenco, Bruce A. Young, Stephen Young, Gary Carlos Cervantes
2x04 Two for the Road
Oct 11, 1987 · 45 min
The Jump Street unit is investigating a counterfeit drivers license ring when Captain Fuller gets arrested for drunk driving.
Directing: Steve Beers · Writing: Paul Bernbaum · Starring: Rob Stone, Pauly Shore, Gordon Currie, Lynne Moody
2x05 After School Special
Oct 18, 1987 · 46 min
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.
Directing: David Jackson · Writing: David Jackson · Starring: Sal Jenco, Keith Amos, Patrick Cronin, James Staley
2x06 Higher Education
Oct 25, 1987 · 46 min
A pregnant school girl fingers Ioki as the father to be.
Directing: Larry Shaw · Writing: E. Paul Edwards · Starring: Sal Jenco, Gretchen Corbett, Michael Horton, Deborah Wakeham
2x07 Don't Stretch the Rainbow
Nov 1, 1987 · 46 min
Racial violence threatens to break out at an integrated school when word leaks out that a white student got a black student pregnant.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Patrick Hasburgh · Starring: Sal Jenco, Gretchen Palmer, Ned Vaughn, J.A. Preston
2x08 Honor Bound
Nov 8, 1987 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Bill Corcoran · Writing: E. Paul Edwards · Starring: Garwin Sanford, Charles Boswell, Marc Bourrel, David Cubitt
2x09 You Ought to Be in Prison
Nov 15, 1987 · 45 min
Hanson and a film star he had been assigned to protect are kidnapped by an escaped murderer.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Bill Nuss · Starring: Sal Jenco, Bart Braverman, Tony Todd, Shannon Tweed
2x10 How Much is That Body in the Window?
Nov 22, 1987 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Neill Fearnley · Writing: Clifton Campbell · Starring: Sal Jenco, Carolyn Mignini, Forry Smith, Dan Gauthier
2x11 Christmas in Saigon
Dec 18, 1987 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Bill Nuss · Starring: Sal Jenco, Betty Phillips, James Sherry, Arthur Taxier
2x12 Fear and Loathing with Russell Buckins
Dec 20, 1987 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Kevin Hooks · Writing: Gary Skeen Hall · Starring: Anthony Starke, Elizabeth Keifer, Marc Alaimo, Ivan Kane
2x13 A Big Disease with a Little Name
Feb 7, 1988 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Neill Fearnley · Writing: Patrick Hasburgh · Starring: Gary Bayer, Janet Carroll, Debra Stipe, Philip Tanzini
2x14 Chapel of Love
Feb 14, 1988 · 45 min
Past romances that didn't have happy endings are the subject of conversation at a Valentine Day Eve poker game.
Directing: Michael Robinson · Writing: Jonathan Lemkin, Bill Nuss · Starring: Sal Jenco, Jean Sagal, Mindy Cohn, Liz Sagal
2x15 I'm OK, You Need Work
Feb 21, 1988 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Neill Fearnley · Writing: Clifton Campbell · Starring: James Stephens, Brandon Douglas, Christina Applegate, Allen Williams
2x16 Orpheus 3.3
Feb 28, 1988 · 46 min
Hanson blames himself for failing to prevent the shooting death of his girlfriend in a convenience store robbery and becomes obsessed with revenge.
Directing: James A. Contner · Writing: Bill Nuss · Starring: Sal Jenco, Art Hindle, Frank Annese, Dorothy Parke
2x17 Champagne High
Mar 6, 1988 · 44 min
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.
Directing: Larry Shaw · Writing: Paul Bernbaum · Starring: Andrew Koenig, Charlie Stratton, Gabriel Jarret, Andrew Ross
2x18 Brother Hanson & the Miracle of Renner's Pond
Mar 13, 1988 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Bill Corcoran · Writing: E. Paul Edwards · Starring: Gregory Itzin, David Greenlee, Dann Florek, Patti Johns
2x19 Raising Marijuana
Apr 17, 1988 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Bill Corcoran · Writing: Jonathan Lemkin · Starring: Sam McMurray, Christian Clemenson, Mark Arnott, Noah Blake
2x20 Best Years of Your Life
May 1, 1988 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Bill Corcoran · Writing: Jonathan Lemkin · Starring: Tiffany Helm, Brad Pitt, Cheryl Pollak, H. Richard Greene
2x21 Cory and Dean Got Married
May 8, 1988 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Clifton Campbell · Starring: Sal Jenco, Joseph Whipp, Frank C. Turner, Rainbow Harvest
2x22 School's Out Season Finale
May 22, 1988 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Kim Manners · Writing: Eric Blakeney · Starring: Sal Jenco, Jay Brazeau, Kris Kamm, Max Perlich