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21 Jump Street: Season 2

22 episodes Premiered Sep 20, 1987 Updated Oct 15, 2026
Previously on 21 Jump Street

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of 21 Jump Street Season 1.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (19): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

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.

S2·E2 Core

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 kill

S2·E3 Core

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 kill

S2·E4 Core

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.

S2·E5 Core

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.

S2·E6 Core

Higher Education

Oct 25, 1987 · 46 min

A pregnant school girl fingers Ioki as the father to be.

S2·E7 Core

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.

S2·E8 Core

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.

S2·E9 Core

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.

S2·E10 Core

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 bec

S2·E11 Core

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.

S2·E12 Core

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 rac

S2·E13 Core

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 bei

S2·E14 Core

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.

S2·E15 Core

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.

S2·E16 Core

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.

S2·E17 Core

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,

S2·E18 Core

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 rece

S2·E19 Core

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 smug

S2·E20 Core

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 t

S2·E21 Mytharc

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.

S2·E22 Mytharc

School's Out

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 deactivate

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