• Air date: 16 Jan '12 13 episodes
      Alcatraz is an American television series created by Elizabeth Sarnoff, Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, and produced by J. J. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions. The series premiered on Fox on January 16, 2012, as a mid-season replacement. Switching between eras, the series focuses on the Alcatraz prison, which was allegedly shut down in 1963 due to unsafe conditions for its prisoners and guards. The show's premise is that both the prisoners and the guards disappeared in 1963 and have abruptly reappeared in modern-day San Francisco, where they are being tracked down by a government agency. The series starred Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia, Sam Neill and Parminder Nagra. The show was cancelled on May 9, 2012.
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. Pilot

      16 Jan '12
      Years ago when the most dangerous prisoners of Alcatraz mysteriously disappeared, they resurface in the present day as part of a larger conspiracy, leaving a police detective, an expert on Alcatraz and an FBI agent to track them down.
    • 2. Ernest Cobb

      16 Jan '12
      When a sniper begins targeting young victims, the team is forced to retrace the steps of the past in order to solve this modern day mystery.
    • 3. Kit Nelson

      23 Jan '12
      When child killer Kit Nelson, a terrifying kidnapper who always returns his victims home - after he's killed them - reappears from the past, the team is in a race against time to catch the man before he kills again.
    • 4. Cal Sweeney

      30 Jan '12
      When a bank robbing criminal returns from the past and things go wrong in the present, Rebecca has to break him out of the hostage-filled bank before people can find out who he is.
    • 5. Guy Hastings

      06 Feb '12
      Guy Hastings, an Alcatraz guard, reappears. Although a good man, Hastings is being asked to do bad things and will come face-to-face with an old acquaintance.
    • 6. Paxton Petty

      13 Feb '12
      When Hauser, Madsen, and Soto track former inmate Paxton Petty, a landmine bomber who has returned and is placing bombs throughout populated areas of San Francisco, methods of the past are applied to the present.
    • 7. Johnny McKee

      20 Feb '12
      Madsen and Hauser hunt down Johnny McKee, a former Alcatraz inmate and vicious killer with a background in chemistry. It’s a race against time before McKee horrifically poisons more innocent victims. Meanwhile, more details emerge about Madsen’s grandfather.
    • 8. The Ames Brothers

      05 Mar '12
      Herman and Pinky Ames, who almost escaped in 1963, return to Alcatraz in the present day and find something strangely wrong
    • 9. Sonny Burnett

      05 Mar '12
      Sonny Burnett, a man with a dark side, who became extremely violent while at Alcatraz reappears
    • 10. Clarence Montgomery

      12 Mar '12
      Clarence Montgomery was the only innocent man in Alcatraz but he's returned and is committing crimes. This episode was scheduled to premiere on February 27, 2012, however it was postponed due to the weather delay of the 2012 Daytona 500. It is available online. It will air again on March 12.
    • 11. Webb Porter

      19 Mar '12
      Rebecca, Doc, and Hauser set out to capture musically-inclined serial killer Webb Porter (guest star Malek), an unknown ’63 that returns more violent than ever
    • 12. Garrett Stillman

      26 Mar '12
      Doc and Rebecca close in on a man who may be the key to revealing the secrets behind all the returning criminals. Meanwhile, Hauser makes a discovery beneath the halls of Alcatraz that brings him ever closer to the truth.
    • 13. Tommy Madsen

      26 Mar '12
      Revealing doors are opened and lives hang in the balance as Rebecca will stop at nothing in pursuit of the man who killed her partner.