Written by Clifton Campbell
Directed by James Whitmore Jr.
Airdate: June 21, 1987
Guest Stars: Sarah Buxton (Trina); David Paymer (Mike Ferris); David Raynr (Kip Fuller)
The Jump Street crew are assigned to investigate a teen modeling agency that might be fronting for a company that makes pornographic films. Meanwhile, Fuller's teenage song "Kip" has adopted a Rastafarian persona.
In an early David Paymer performance, he plays the sleazy producer who recruits teens under the guise of a model agency, but who's grooming them for adult films. Hoffs is selected and manages to entrap Mike, but not after he's exploited many young girls along the way, especially Trina who is featured in the episode as being under Mike's control. Hoffs becomes an advocate for Trina and gets her freed. Mike is arrested at the end of the episode.
We also learn Fuller once worked undercover in the adult film world for 18 months and he's still shaken by the assignment. Scenes with his son Kip, who is undergoing an identity crisis, never really goes anywhere dramatically, except that Fuller comes to accept him after being reluctant at first.
The subject matter was mature for network TV for 1987, and the story never sanitizes the exploitation of underage girls in the industry. It was also one of the few stories not set at a High School during the first season.
Final Report: B
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