Alcatraz

About Alcatraz

A unique team, consisting of a federal agent, a police officer and a conspiracy theory novelist, investigate the shocking reappearance of Alcatraz's most notorious prisoners, fifty years after they supposedly vanished.

FOX's Alcatraz is an action-adventure and mystery series. Its one season of 13 episodes aired between January 2012 and March 2012.

Its themes are disappearance, escaped prisoner, alcatraz prison, and time travel. Sarah Jones leads the cast as Detective Rebecca Madsen, Sam Neill as Emerson Hauser, Jorge Garcia as Dr. Diego Soto, and Jonny Coyne as Warden Edwin James.

Produced by Bad Robot.

Dark, Continuum, and Life on Mars make useful companions to Alcatraz, all filed under police detective. TMDB voters put it at 6.3 out of 10 across 317 votes and it carries a TV-14 rating.