Alcatraz Season 1

Alcatraz Season 1 has quietly become one of the more dependable crime dramas currently available on . A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. With 306 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Sarah Jones's performance alone is worth the time investment. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Alcatraz Season 1 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. At its heart, Alcatraz Season 1 understands what makes crime drama work — character first, plot second. Season 1 of Alcatraz includes 13 episodes. It aired from January 2012 to March 2012. This season stars Sarah Jones, Sam Neill and Jorge Garcia. Sarah Jones and Sam Neill lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2012. What distinguishes the best crime dramas from the rest is whether the character work can carry scenes where the mystery takes a breath — Alcatraz Season 1 passes that test consistently. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Crime and mystery fans will find exactly what they are after in Alcatraz Season 1. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Sarah Jones carries scenes that would sink a lesser production. The resolution feels inevitable rather than arbitrary, which is rarer than it sounds.

🎬 Alcatraz Season 1 — Episode Guide

Jack Sylvane

2012-01-16

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.

Ernest Cobb

2012-01-16

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.

Kit Nelson

2012-01-23

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.

Cal Sweeney

2012-01-30

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.

Guy Hastings

2012-02-06

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.

Paxton Petty

2012-02-13

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.

Johnny McKee

2012-02-20

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.

The Ames Brothers

2012-03-05

Herman and Pinky Ames, who almost escaped in 1963, return to Alcatraz in the present day and find something strangely wrong.

Sonny Burnett

2012-03-05

Sonny Burnett, a man with a dark side, who became extremely violent while at Alcatraz reappears.

E10

Clarence Montgomery

2012-03-12

Clarence Montgomery was the only innocent man in Alcatraz, but he's returned and is committing crimes.

E11

Webb Porter

2012-03-19

Rebecca, Doc, and Hauser set out to capture musically-inclined serial killer Webb Porter, an unknown ’63 that returns more violent than ever.

E12

Garrett Stillman

2012-03-26

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.

E13

Tommy Madsen

2012-03-26

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.

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