21 Jump Street Season 4 Episode 7
Mette Florida
21 Jump Street is an American police procedural television drama series that aired on the Fox network and in first-run syndication from April 12, 1987 to April 27, 1991, spanning 103 episodes over five seasons. The series focuses on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in schools, gangs, and other teenage venues.[1] It was originally going to be titled Jump Street Chapel, after the deconsecrated church building in which the unit has its headquarters, but was changed at Fox's request so as not to mislead viewers into thinking it was a religious program.
Created by Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell, the series was produced by Patrick Hasburgh Productions and Stephen J. Cannell Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Executive producers included Hasburgh, Cannell, Steve Beers, and Bill Nuss. The show was an early hit for the fledgling Fox network, and was created to attract a younger audience.[2] The final season aired in first-run syndication mainly on local Fox affiliates. It was later rerun on the FX cable network from 1996 to 1998.
The series provided a spark to Johnny Depp's acting career, garnering him national recognition as a teen idol. Depp found this status irritating,[3] but he continued on the series under his contract and was paid $45,000 per episode. Eventually he was released from his contract after the fourth season.[3][4]
A film adaptation directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller was released on March 16, 2012. The film is set in the same continuity as the series, with Johnny Depp, Holly Robinson and Peter DeLuise reprising their characters in cameo appearances. Richard Grieco and Dustin Nguyen also have cameos in the 2014 film sequel 22 Jump Street.
The series focuses on a group of rookie police officers headquartered at the eponymous address. These young officers all have especially youthful appearances, allowing them to pass for teenagers. Their assignments frequently consist of undercover work in high schools or, less commonly, colleges, where they generally investigate drug trafficking and other criminal activities. The show's plots cover issues such as alcoholism, hate crimes, gang violence, drug abuse, homophobia, AIDS, child abuse, and sexual promiscuity. Similarly, each problem is often solved by the end of the hour-long episode, giving an implicit moral about a particular activity's impact. When the show originally aired, some episodes were followed immediately by public service announcements (PSAs) featuring cast members.
Jeff Yagher was originally cast as Officer Tom Hanson in the pilot. He was replaced after the original pilot episode was filmed, and his scenes were reshot with Johnny Depp. Midway through the first season, Frederic Forrest was replaced by Steven Williams. On the show, Forrest's character Richard Jenko is killed by a drunk driver.
David Barry Gray's character was introduced at the end of the fourth season and starred in two episodes of season five with Alexandra Powers. Both episodes were filmed before the fourth season had ended but were not shown until the start of season five. Neither actor was approached in regards to portraying their character in the show's fifth and final season.Michael DeLuise joined the cast part way through the fifth season and stayed on until late in the season.
Some notable guest stars on the series include:Dom DeLuise, Josh Brolin, Mindy Cohn, Bridget Fonda, Bobby Rodriguez, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brad Pitt, Vince Vaughn, Barney Martin, Dann Florek, Blair Underwood, Shannen Doherty, John Waters, Rosie Perez, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mario Van Peebles, Christina Applegate, Pauly Shore, David DeLuise, Bradley Gregg, Jason Priestley, Christine Elise, Christopher Titus, Kurtwood Smith, Peri Gilpin, Shannon Tweed, Sarah Buxton, David Paymer, Diedrich Bader, Russell Wong, Kelly Hu, Tim Russ, Thomas Haden Church, Sherilyn Fenn, Rob Estes, Ray Walston, R.J. Williams, Robyn Lively, Gloria Reuben, Billy Jayne, Jason Lively, Billy Warlock, Peter Berg, Larenz Tate, and Tracy Griffith.
Set in a fictional city and state (Metropolis, Evergreen State) in the United States, the series was primarily filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was one of the first major television series to use Vancouver as a filming location and helped to establish the city as a center for film production.[5]
21 Jump Street, along with Married... with Children and The Tracey Ullman Show, debuted in the spring of 1987. All three shows were hits with audiences and helped to establish the then-newly launched Fox network.[6] 21 Jump Street was the first hit series for the Fox network.[7] In August, 21 Jump Street became the first Fox series to win its timeslot against a Big Three network series.[8] In the United Kingdom, it was shown on the similarly nascent, and interrelated, Sky One, which had yet to reach a sizeable audience.[9]
Officer Dean Garrett (David Barry Gray) makes his first appearance in "Everyday is Christmas." As it became more difficult for the original Jump Street cast to pass as high-school students, younger actors were brought in, intended to be "youthful" replacements in order to allow the show to maintain its original premise of young-looking cops posing as high-school students.
On October 14, 2009, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to several Stephen J. Cannell series, including 21 Jump Street,[10] and subsequently re-released the first four seasons. In addition, Mill Creek also released 21 Jump Street: The Complete Series, an 18-disc collection featuring all 103 episodes of the series on DVD on July 27, 2010.[11]
On March 16, 2012, a feature film based on the television series from Sony Pictures was released starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum (who are also executive producers) and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller with the screenplay written by Michael Bacall from a story by both Hill and Bacall. Johnny Depp, Peter DeLuise, and Holly Robinson briefly reprise their roles as Tom Hanson, Doug Penhall, and Judy Hoffs.
Described in concept by Hill as an "R-rated, insane, Bad Boys-meets-John Hughes-type movie,"[15] the film departs from the dramatic style of the series and instead features a comedic tone. The film and series are also set in the same continuity. A sequel titled 22 Jump Street was released in 2014.
21 Jump Street is an American police procedural crime drama television series that aired on the Fox Network and in first run syndication from April 12, 1987, to April 27, 1991, with a total of 103 episodes spanning five seasons. The series focuses on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools, colleges, and other teenage venues.[1]
Hoffs is assigned to look after a Polish exchange student who comes to town and begins to act out, partly due to her repressive upbringing in her native country and partly due to stereotypes about American high schools perpetuated through TV. Hanson goes undercover at a high school mechanic shop to investigate a car theft ring.
Hanson goes undercover to investigate a series of burglaries at a local high school and learns that both the burglar and a student are obsessed with one of the teachers who works there, Miss Chadwick.
Officer Hoffs is sent to a Catholic school for girls to investigate a possible arsonist with all leads pointing to a very unlikely suspect. Meanwhile, Penhall is mugged by his date at a bowling alley.
While still mourning the loss of Captain Jenko in a drunk driving accident, Hanson and Hoffs are assigned to get close to a high school principal after he receives death threats from a gang leader that he stood up to. He is taken hostage along with the 300 students at the school and it's up to Hanson, Hoffs, Ioki, and Penhall to save them with the help of their new captain.
While busting drug dealers, Hanson and Penhall (in their "McQuaid brothers" cover) discover a girl who is being sexually abused by her father, a high-ranking police officer. She seeks out Hanson's help to carry out a hit on her father.
The son of a loan shark continues the family tradition, starting up his own cash-loan operation in a local high school and physically assaulting students and teachers who do not repay their debt on time.
Hoffs befriends a promising young high school baseball player from New York City who is in the federal witness protection program. Penhall pretends to be a baseball player to get closer to the young man and help protect him when his mobster father becomes a government witness.
Officers Ioki and Hoffs go undercover in a teen modeling agency that is suspected to be a front for a pornography ring that exploits minors. Meanwhile, Captain Fuller comes across a down-and-out woman he previously arrested and sets his sights on the modeling academy's owner, in an effort to find those responsible for coercing the girls into making these films and bring them to justice.
Tyrell "Waxer" Thompson, the drug dealer busted by Officer Hanson in his first Jump Street case, escapes state custody while being transported to an adult prison. After discovering that Hanson is working undercover to protect a Hollywood heartthrob in town filming a movie, Waxer looks to settle the score.
Officer Ioki may not be who he claims, as he is faced with immediate dismissal from the chapel when it's discovered that he is not Japanese, but is, in fact, a Vietnamese refugee. The team learns about Ioki's past and how he came to America.
Following up on his first Jump Street case, Hanson goes undercover and is trapped inside an in-patient adolescent drug treatment center while investigating reports that the center is mistreating patients.
Officers Hanson and Penhall pose once again as the battling McQuaid brothers to infiltrate a gang of students being bussed from the wrong side of the tracks. A teenager is mentally and physically abused by his father.