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Alcatraz

★ 6.9 41K votes 2012–2012 1 season · 13 episodes Canceled FOX
Mystery boxCentral riddles sustained across whole seasons.This show: 8/10Detective mysteryCrime-solving from the investigator's side of the table.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Sarah JonesJorge GarciaJonny CoyneParminder NagraSam NeillCameron K. Smith
Written by
Steven LilienElizabeth SarnoffBryan Wynbrandt
Starring
Sarah JonesJorge GarciaJonny CoyneParminder NagraSam NeillCameron K. Smith
Written by
Steven LilienElizabeth SarnoffBryan Wynbrandt
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
03006009001k

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About

"A mystery-box procedural that got cut short"

In 1963, an entire cellblock of inmates and guards vanished from Alcatraz without explanation. Fifty years later they start reappearing, unaged, and immediately go back to committing crimes. A detective, a federal agent, and an Alcatraz historian team up to hunt them down while digging into what actually happened on the island. It's a case-of-the-week procedural wrapped around a mystery-box mythology, produced in the JJ Abrams mold: slick, moody, twisty, with flashbacks doing a lot of heavy lifting. Watchable but formulaic, and it never got the chance to pay off its bigger questions.

Watch it for

the intriguing premise of vanished 1963 inmates resurfacing unaged in the present day.

Maybe skip if

you need mythology-driven shows to actually resolve their central mysteries.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12012
7.59K139h 42m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Pilot7.5
1K45 min
▶2Ernest Cobb7.4
90945 min
▶3Kit Nelson7.3
78344 min
▶4Cal Sweeney7.3
67943 min
▶5Guy Hastings7.6
62845 min
▶6Paxton Petty7.7
62945 min
▶7Johnny McKee7.3
59045 min
▶8The Ames Bros.7.7
54645 min
▶9Sonny Burnett7.5
52145 min
▶10Clarence Montgomery7.4
55445 min
▶11Webb Porter7.5
54145 min
▶12Garrett Stillman7.7
52445 min
▶13Tommy Madsen8.0
62645 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Sarah Jones Detective Rebecca Madsen
Jorge Garcia Dr. Diego Soto
Jonny Coyne Warden Edwin James
Parminder Nagra Dr. Lucy Banerjee
Sam Neill Emerson Hauser
Cameron K. Smith Alcatraz Guard
Leon Rippy Dr. Milton Beauregard
Jason Butler Harner Deputy Warden E.B. Tiller
David Hoflin Tommy Madsen
Jeffrey Pierce Jack Sylvane

Crew

Steven Lilien
Elizabeth Sarnoff
Bryan Wynbrandt

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