The BEST episodes of Swamp Thing

#1 - The Hurting

Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 1/23/1993

When an elderly woman, named Irma Swanson, who knew and befriended Swamp Thing, dies, her estranged daughter, Cathy, comes to town for her funeral. Swamp Thing and the spirit of Irma then show Cathy the past of Irma’s troubled life in order for Cathy to make amends meet.

#2 - New Acquaintance

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/2/1990

Jim is feeling lonely and tries to make a new friend when he meets a mysterious young girl in town, named Lily, who invites herself into Jim and Tressa‘s home, and who carries a dark secret.

#3 - Treasure

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/26/1990

A thief on the run from his female accommplice choses the swamp as his hiding place for a fortune in stolen cash and Jim's house as his final stop.

#4 - Special Request

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/1992

After seemingly having no interest for so many episodes what happened to Jim, Tressa is suddenly in Peru and sidetracked by a voice from her past on a radio.

#5 - The Legend of the Swamp Maiden

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/21/1990

Jim and Oboe sneak out on a midnight visit to the swamp and are resolute to see a mystical spirit called the Swamp Maiden who appears only once every three years. Jim plans to take pictures of her although both have been warned not to touch her. An unknown man offers to buy the pictures that Jim might take.

#6 - Natural Enemy

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/19/1990

Swamp Thing is teaching Jim about endangered planets in the swamp when they come upon an area Swamp Thing refused to explain or let Jim go into that looks intriguing to a young boy's fancy. Jim being the inquisitive bash young boy he is, can't resist returning to have a look. During his brief visit he is bitten by a venomous insect created by Archane.

#7 - Grotesquery

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/12/1990

Swamp Thing is overcome by toxic waste and falls unconscious where he is found by two clean up men and is sold to a carnival freak show ran by a cruel man in league with Arcane. Jim stumbles by and sees the weakened Swamp Thing in a cage, and he is its only hope to get him back to the swamp to recover.

#8 - Powers of Darkness

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/1992

A young loner who believes he is a vampire is accused of murdering his mother's boyfriend.

#9 - Blood Wind

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/5/1990

Arcane's protégé, named Crown Prince, is experimenting with hatred pheromones and his latest batch is released into the swamp air and Tressa is infected with the chemical agent which leads to all townspeople that she comes into contact with wanting to kill her. Only an intervention from Swamp Thing as well as Jim can cure her.

#10 - The Living Image

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/1990

Dr. Arcane transforms his partner in crime into the "living image" of Swamp Thing's lost spouse in hopes of tricking him into revealing the formula for the bio-restorative recipe, which is intended to modify the DNA and stop aging.

#11 - The Emerald Heart

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/27/1990

The main series characters are introduced. Swamp Thing first meets 11-year-old Jim Kipp whose divorced mother, Tressa, is visiting her mother’s home. Jim encounters Humphrey, a dwarf who has escaped from the evil Dr. Arcane. Tressa struggles with raising her son as well as finding her magic powered necklace, called “the emerald heart” in the swamps.

#12 - The Death of Dr. Arcane

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/1990

Thugs working for Arcane kidnap Jim. Arcane takes one of his 'creations' into the swamp and is met by Swamp Thing who objects. The creature escapes and Arcane is killed, but must be “revitalized” in order for Swamp Thing to save Jim.

#13 - Spirit of the Swamp

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/1990

Veteran actor Roscoe Lee Browne plays a ""Ogun"" which is a voodoo priest whom Archane employs to overcome Swamp Thing.

#14 - From Beyond the Grave

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/16/1990

Jim and Tressa may have to leave the swamp after a lawyer delivers a notice of eviction. But they are unaware that the lawyer is in league with Dr. Arcane whom plans to use the property to expand his lab. Only through dreams does the late Tressa’s mother communicates to her with clues to find her real will guarded in the swamp.

#15 - What Goes Around Comes Around, Comes Around

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/31/1992

Return to those thrilling days of the old west in guilt ridden dreams, when Arcane is allowed to hunt a man with the full knowledge of the sheriff.

#16 - Dark Side of the Mirror

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/1991

Swamp Thing is framed by one of Arcane's mutants for murdering a local District Attorney who was on to Arcane for his latest nefarious plans. Meanwhile, Abigail continues to try to weave herself into Will’s life as well as persuade him to expand his boundary of knowledge.

#17 - Birth Marks

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/1991

A runaway synthetic human from Dr. Woodroes lab, Abigail is seen running through the street from an exploding boat by Will who befriends her. Meanwhile a baby is swept away by the waters of the swamp from the same explosion into the arms of the Swamp Thing.

#18 - Heart of the Mantis

Season 3 - Episode 38 - Aired 4/24/1993

Oliver Duncan awaits death in a hospital while Archane plots to gain his former teachers secrets.

#19 - Swamp of Dreams

Season 3 - Episode 37 - Aired 4/17/1993

Swamp Thing gets addicted to hallucinogenic iguana eggs which makes him live out a fantasy with Ann. But the effect causes bad luck with Will when he comes into contact with one of them and ends up a prisoner in Arcane’s lab who is determined to find the nest of rare eggs himself for personal use.

#20 - Romancing Arcane

Season 3 - Episode 36 - Aired 4/10/1993

#21 - Heart of Stone

Season 3 - Episode 35 - Aired 4/3/1993

#22 - Yo Ho Ho

Season 3 - Episode 34 - Aired 3/27/1993

#23 - Brotherly Love

Season 3 - Episode 32 - Aired 3/13/1993

#24 - The Chains of Forever

Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 2/27/1993

Will becomes involved with a couple who hold a map that Archane has a keene interest in obtaining.

#25 - The Specter of Death

Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 2/6/1993