Episode

21 Jump Street: You Ought to Be in Prison

Name: 21 Jump Street: You Ought to Be in Prison
Released: 1987-11-15
Duration: 45 min
Cast: Holly Robinson Peete, Peter DeLuise, Steven Williams, Johnny Depp, Dustin Nguyễn

21 Jump StreetSeason 21987-11-15

Overview

Hanson and a film star he had been assigned to protect are kidnapped by an escaped murderer.

Details

Series: 21 Jump Street
Season: Season 2
Episode: Episode 9
Air date: 1987-11-15
Runtime: 45 min

Episode context

You Ought to Be in Prison is Episode 9 in Season 2 of 21 Jump Street. It aired on 1987-11-15. The runtime is 45 min.

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Episode 8: Honor Bound 1987-11-08 | 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.

Episode 10: How Much is That Body in the Window? 1987-11-22 | 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.

More episodes from this season

Episode 7: Don't Stretch the Rainbow 1987-11-01 | 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.

Episode 11: Christmas in Saigon 1987-12-18 | 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.

Episode 6: Higher Education 1987-10-25 | 46 min A pregnant school girl fingers Ioki as the father to be.

Episode 12: Fear and Loathing with Russell Buckins 1987-12-20 | 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.

Episode 5: After School Special 1987-10-18 | 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.

Episode 13: A Big Disease with a Little Name 1988-02-07 | 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.

Episode 4: Two for the Road 1987-10-11 | 45 min The Jump Street unit is investigating a counterfeit drivers license ring when Captain Fuller gets arrested for drunk driving.

Episode 14: Chapel of Love 1988-02-14 | 45 min Past romances that didn't have happy endings are the subject of conversation at a Valentine Day Eve poker game.

Episode 3: Besieged (2) 1987-10-04 | 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.

Episode 15: I'm OK, You Need Work 1988-02-21 | 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.