Alcatraz: The Complete SeriesAmazon. com It's still got that mystique, Alcatraz. Where else would you build a TV series premise about the closing of a prison that resulted not in the orderly dissemination of the remaining prisoners and staff but an inexplicable opening in the time space continuum that caused the vanishing of hundreds of people? Alcatraz closed in 1963, so the present day characters in Alcatraz have their hands full, and their minds blown, when the missing folks