The WORST episodes of Swamp Thing

Every episode of Swamp Thing ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.

Last Updated: 2/23/2024Network: USA NetworkStatus: Ended
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Lesser of Two Evils
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2.00
1 votes

#1 - Lesser of Two Evils

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/19/1992

Arcane's rival, Carla Jeffries (Tyne Daly) takes over his business. Swamp Thing discovers that she's a much more formidable enemy than Arcane ever was. Will he, Arcane and Graham put their differences aside to oust Carla?

Directors: Walter von Huene
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An Eye for an Eye
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3.00
2 votes

#2 - An Eye for an Eye

Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired 3/20/1993

When the swamp stalks Archane in the form of a panther, an ecological message is the overtone about unsafe modes of power encroaching on nature and how she strikes back. Leaving a forboding and chilling message when even Swamp Thing is powerless.

Directors: Tom Desimone
Writer: Jeff Myrow
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In the Beginning
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3.00
2 votes

#3 - In the Beginning

Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 3/6/1993

Directors: Chuck Bowman
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Smoke and Mirrors
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3.00
1 votes

#4 - Smoke and Mirrors

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1992

Nathan Stone is a heavy mental musician staying alone in the Kipp boarding house where Swamp Thing terrorizes him with a series of mind games as he seeks to teach the shallow and egotistical punk rock star to take responsibility for his wicked lyrics that has led to the suicide of two teenage fans.

Directors: Steve Beers
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This Old House of Mayan
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3.50
2 votes

#5 - This Old House of Mayan

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/6/1992

Will is taken hostage by two men whom are greedy explorers whom force him to help them find the location of a mystic Mayan temple in the swamp housing buried treasure which is guarded by two vengeful Mayan ghosts.

Directors: Walter von Huene
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Tatania
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3.50
2 votes

#6 - Tatania

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/28/1992

Arcane finally resurrects his dead wife only to discover he's been duped by Sunderland. The body he's been lording over really belongs to a stripper named Kitty. Which sends Arcane on a rampage of revenge, that turns bitter sweet when he finds his true wife.

Directors: John McPherson
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A Most Bitter Pill
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3.50
2 votes

#7 - A Most Bitter Pill

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/5/1992

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The Curse
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3.50
2 votes

#8 - The Curse

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/12/1992

Directors: Chuck Bowman
Writer: Jeff Myrow
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Judgment Day
star
3.50
2 votes

#9 - Judgment Day

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 12/19/1992

Can Swamp Thing save his friend Will from charges of a murder is didn't commit versus the ambitions of a corrupt District Attorney?

Directors: Chuck Bowman
Writer: Reed Moran
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Cross-Fired
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3.50
2 votes

#10 - Cross-Fired

Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 2/13/1993

Directors: Chuck Bowman
Fear Itself
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4.00
2 votes

#11 - Fear Itself

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/7/1992

What happens the swamp itself is no longer an ally to Swamp Thing? The answers lay with a man called Mephisto.

Directors: John McPherson
Writer: Brenda Lilly
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Revelations
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4.50
2 votes

#12 - Revelations

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/26/1992

Swamp Thing is wounded and being tracked down by mercenaries hired by Arcane. He makes his way to Dr. Ann Fisk's lab and is transformed back into Alec Holland. Afterward he is still wounded and aided by Tressa Kipp who finally learns the truth about Swamp Thing.

Directors: Chuck Bowman
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Dead and Married
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4.50
2 votes

#13 - Dead and Married

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/1992

A recent storm in the swamp uncovers a car wreck from ten years ago,including the married couples ghosts that think only hours have passed.

Directors: Steve Beers
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Children of the Fool
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4.50
2 votes

#14 - Children of the Fool

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1992

Will starts dating a girl from a carnival. Her boss who is manipulating the young carnies wants to sacrifice Will to ""the forces of darkness"" in a scam to keep his young work force in line.

Directors: David S. Jackson
Writer: Fred Golan
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Touch of Death
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4.50
2 votes

#15 - Touch of Death

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/15/1991

Arcane experiments with Dr. Holland's formula by murdering a local man who comes back from the dead with severe side effects; a single touch can drain a person‘s life energy in which Will becomes infected and pushes away Abigail. Only Swamp Thing can come to anyone‘s rescue.

Directors: Walter von Huene
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The Watchers
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4.50
2 votes

#16 - The Watchers

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/1/1991

Tressa accidentally stumbles across Arcane's latest model of two robot henchmen, called Watchers, who are hunting down Abigail to erase any evidence of the late Dr. Woodroe’s test tube experiments. Meanwhile, Will decides to throw Abigail a birthday party when she does not remember her birthday since she never had biological parents.

Directors: Lyndon Chubbuck
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Walk a Mile in My Shoots
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4.50
2 votes

#17 - Walk a Mile in My Shoots

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/22/1991

Arcane trades bodies with Swamp Thing after setting a trap using Will as bait. While Swamp Thing deals with being human for the first time in years and interacting with an unknowing Will, Tressa, and Abigail, he must find a way to switch back within 24 hours or the change will become permanent.

Directors: Bruce Seth Green
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That's a Wrap
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5.00
1 votes

#18 - That's a Wrap

Season 3 - Episode 39 - Aired 5/1/1993

Directors: Walter von Huene
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The Shipment
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5.00
2 votes

#19 - The Shipment

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/23/1990

Arcane captures Jim and sells him into slavery after the boy is witness to the evil doctor's hideous transformations of men into monsters and the local sheriff is in on the plans. Jim’s 17-year-old half-brother, Will, arrives to investigate Jim’s disappearance and teams up with Swamp Thing to find Arcane’s secret lab, but neither are aware that Jim is already gone from the country and the sheriff is one step head of their moves.

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Silent Screams
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5.00
2 votes

#20 - Silent Screams

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/1991

When Tressa accompanies her old college roommate, Ilene, and her daughter on an overnight camping trip, Arcane traps Ilene and her daughter behind an invisible force shield and only Swamp Thing can rescue them when Tress is disabled by a snake bite and both Will and Abigail are powerless to do anything.

Directors: Walter von Huene
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The Hunt
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5.00
2 votes

#21 - The Hunt

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/8/1991

Will's estranged father shows up looking for a rare white orchid that Arcane and his henchman, Graham, has nefarious plans for. Tressa struggles with her romantic feelings for him, and Abigail, working in the town’s greenhouse, succumbs to the poisonous fumes of a certain red orchid, and only the healing powers of the white orchid can save her.

Directors: Bruce Seth Green
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The Prometheus Parabola
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5.00
2 votes

#22 - The Prometheus Parabola

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/5/1991

Tressa and Abigail are taken hostage by a man with a score to settle with Arcane, and whom has developed an environment destroying weapon called the Prometheus Parabola, capable of destroying the swamp and Swamp Thing intervenes in the literal shoot-out war at Tressa’s house to see that both sides do not activate the weapon while Will tries to rescue Tressa, Abigail, and Dr. Hollister from harms way.

Directors: Walter von Huene
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Love Lost
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5.00
3 votes

#23 - Love Lost

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/1992

A self-proclaimed psychic comes to the swamp in search of Alec Holland with a message from his dead wife Linda. She also reveals that Jim is still alive and will be heard from soon.

Directors: David S. Jackson
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Patient Zero
star
5.00
1 votes

#24 - Patient Zero

Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 2/20/1993

When a stranger comes to swamp with evil designs of his own upon Swamp Thing's blood, Archane becomes involved.

Directors: Walter von Huene
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Sonata
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5.33
3 votes

#25 - Sonata

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/20/1992

Ann Fisk returns to the swamp, intent on finding out if Swamp Thing is really the man, Alec Holland, whom she knew all those years ago and then tries to find a way to transform the creature back into the human scientist she once knew. But complications set in when two revenge-seeking redneck brothers take Ann as well as Arcane and his henchman, Graham, hostage and Swamp Thing is torn over using his powers to save them aware that his chance to become human again will be lost.

Directors: Chuck Bowman
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