"21 Jump Street" Pilot (1987)

Director:

Kim Manners

Writers:

Patrick Hasburgh (creator) &
Stephen J. Cannell (creator) ...

TV Series:

"21 Jump Street" (1987)

Original Air Date:

12 April 1987 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

As part of a new police initiative a young looking police officer, Hanson, is sent into a high school undercover to investigate a dangerous drug dealer. |

Plot Keywords:

Police | Undercover | Address As Title | Detective | Teen

Cast

Johnny Depp	...	Officer Tom Hanson
Frederic Forrest	...	Captain Richard Jenko
Holly Robinson Peete	...	Officer Judy Hoffs (as Holly Robinson)
Peter DeLuise	...	Officer Doug Penhall
Dustin Nguyen	...	Officer Harry Truman Ioki
Barney Martin	...	Charlie
Francis X. McCarthy	...	Captain Briody (as Frank McCarthy)
Claude Earl Jones	...	Charlie Donagan
Reginald T. Dorsey	...	Tyrell 'Waxer' Thompson
Brandon Douglas	...	Kenny Weckerle
Cheryl Anderson	...	Mrs. Weckerle
Scott Kraft
Niles Brewster
Noelle Harling	...	Wendy
Margaret Langrick	...	Noreen Weckerle

Goofs:

Continuity: The police car that Hanson and his partner drive in starts off with 2 red lights on top. Next scene showing them driving shows that it has 2 blue lights. Later, when the car Hanson and Ioki are driving is being chased by a police car, it has 1 red light, and 1 blue light.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Noreen Weckerle: Mom, would you give me a break? I mean, come on, I got to hear this every ten seconds.
Mrs. Weckerle: What's the difference? You only listen for one. Come on, anorexia, dinner.

Movie Connections:

References Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)