The BEST episodes of Swamp Thing
Every episode of Swamp Thing ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Swamp Thing!
When Dr. Alec Holland becomes the victim of deadly sabotage and is left for dead, he is transformed by the swamp and the chemicals meant to kill him into a creature struggling with the balance between his own vengeance and the protection of those who can't protect themselves.
#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 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Tremors of the Heart
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/22/1991
Under pressure from his superior, the shadowy General Sunderland, Arcane experiments with artificial earthquakes when he hires a hot female engineer, named Sienna, to create earthquakes at this latest weapon which leads to a personal conflict between Arcane and Sienna over the test runs, and it also lands Swamp Thing in a bind when he becomes trapped in the underground facility and weakening fast from lack of sunlight. Elsewhere, after Will goes out of town with Dr. Hollister to shop for a new truck, Abigail finds herself helpless when Tressa becomes pinned under the fishing pier during another aftershock and the rising river water threatens to drown her.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Night of the Dying
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1992
Archane buys a rare book of voodoo spells and while summoning Baron Samedi he is possessed by evil spirits. The book is actually a trap for Archane by the daughter of the Ogun Duchamp who seeks revenge for Jim Kipp. On Archane's side is Duchamp's son who has taken his father's place.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Better Angels
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/1992
A scientist from Alec Holland's past is employed by a businessman who claims he wants to build a recycling plant near the swamp. His real motives are to build a resort in collaboration with Archane.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Falco
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/9/1990
One of Archane's failed experiments, a man-bird, comes looking for vengeance during the funeral for Jim's grandmother and only Swamp Thing as well as an encounter with danger involving Jim can redeem “Falcon Man”.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.