7.1/1024 votesLoading...#1 - Dead and Married
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/1992
Will finds a car in the swamp, and attached are two married ghosts and their remains. The search for their killer, who just might be an old acquaintance of theirs, begins with the help of Will and the Swamp Thing.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steven L. Sears
- 6.7/1023 votesLoading...
#2 - Never Alone
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 11/21/1992
A lunatic escapes from a local asylum and knocks on Tressa's door late at night. He proclaims himself as an alien killer. Even the Swamp Thing is in danger.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1035 votesLoading...#3 - Spirit of the Swamp
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/1990
Veteran actor Roscoe Lee Browne plays an "Ogun", a voodoo priest whom Arcane employs to destroy the Swamp Thing.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/1046 votesLoading...#4 - The Living Image
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/1990
Dr. Arcane attempts once again to obtain the bio-restorative formula from the Swamp Thing. However, this time Arcane has a helper, and the Swamp Thing knows her as his late wife, Linda Holland.
Director: John McPherson
Writer: Joseph Stefano, David Braff
6.5/1033 votesLoading...#5 - 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 the Swamp Thing to find him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/1030 votesLoading...#6 - Dark Side of the Mirror
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/1991
Arcane plots and murders the local district attorney when he swears to bring Arcane down. A high profile murder tied to Arcane would be hard to hide, unless someone nobody would suspect commits the crime. Somebody like...the Swamp Thing.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: N/A
6.5/1031 votesLoading...#7 - The Hunt
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/8/1991
Tempers flare when Will's estranged father shows up looking for a rare white orchid that Arcane has paid him to steal. Will's trust is broken, and so is the swamp's when he leads his father to it unwittingly. Meanwhile, Arcane tests his poisonous mutant garden on Abigail.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: N/A
6.5/1025 votesLoading...#8 - Poisonous
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/21/1992
Ian James, an unscrupulous anthropologist, has come to the swamp to create a reputation for himself and the swamp suffers for it. Tressa is quite taken with him and in the process, the Swamp Thing is caught on film.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#9 - The Chains of Forever
Season 3 Episode 30 - Aired 2/27/1993
A mysterious couple search the swamp for the legendary Fountain of Youth. Arcane learns about the couple's plans and tries to find the Fountain first, as Will is caught in the middle of the couple's debate on whether or not the Fountain even exists.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1020 votesLoading...
#10 - In the Beginning
Season 3 Episode 31 - Aired 3/6/1993
Arcane accidentally creates a half-plant/half-robot with evil intentions from a mutated garden. The results are deadly to the swamp.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: N/A
6.4/1037 votesLoading...#11 - The Death of Dr. Arcane
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/1990
Arcane has unleashed his latest mutant monster into the swamp to eat everything it sees and if this test trial works, then more will be released. To ensure that the Swamp Thing does not interfere, he takes a hostage and bargains for immunity.
Director: John McPherson
Writer: Joseph Stefano
6.4/1039 votesLoading...#12 - 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 in the form of a will from Tressa's late mother. They are unaware that the lawyer is in league with Dr. Arcane. Meanwhile, Tressa's mother's spirit guides her to the swamp where the real answers lie.
Director: Tony Dow
Writer: N/A
6.4/1032 votesLoading...#13 - Silent Screams
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/1991
Tressa and her friends are victims of another one of Arcane's experiments for General Sunderland. Tressa tries to save her friends when they suddenly disappear in the swamp right before her eyes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/1028 votesLoading...#14 - Love Lost
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/1992
The Swamp Thing is struggling to remain hopeful that he will be human again. Someone from the past comes to visit him, using Will to guide her to him. Only Will does not believe that she is who she says she is, and he is about to learn who he can and cannot trust.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tom Blomquist
6.4/1028 votesLoading...#15 - Better Angels
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/1992
Ann Fisk, a scientist and former student of Alec Holland, is in town. Ann's mentor, Carter LaRoche, has designs to build a recycling factory under Arcane's financing in the swamp. Ann must trust a strange voice in the swamp to expose an evil that she is not aware of.
Director: N/A
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
- 6.4/1022 votesLoading...
#16 - Fear Itself
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 8/7/1992
The Swamp Thing's worst enemy is also the enemy of the swamp...himself.
Director: John McPherson
Writer: N/A
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#17 - Changes
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/14/1992
When Arcane unleashes a genetic assassin into the swamp in the form of a virus, he gets more than he bargained for; he not only gets rid of the Swamp Thing, but he accidentally brings Alec Holland back.
Director: John McPherson
Writer: Steven L. Sears
6.4/1021 votesLoading...#18 - Tatania
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 8/28/1992
Arcane finally resurrects his wife Tatania, only to learn the woman is an impostor. A few hours in the lab with this woman leads Arcane to discover the true whereabouts of his beloved wife and the identity of her captor; General Sunderland.
Director: John McPherson
Writer: N/A
6.3/1037 votesLoading...#19 - Blood Wind
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/5/1990
Arcane's protégé, whom he refers to as the "Crown Prince", is experimenting with hatred pheromones and his latest batch, which supposedly failed, is dumped in the swamp. The Swamp Thing has to intervene when Tressa is exposed and is in danger of being murdered - by everyone.
Director: N/A
Writer: Marc Scott Zicree
6.3/1039 votesLoading...#20 - Falco
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/9/1990
One of Arcane's mutants arrives in the swamp to exact revenge on him. The Swamp Thing tries to make him understand how to live with what he is.
Director: Fritz Kiersch
Writer: Joseph Stefano
6.3/1031 votesLoading...#21 - Touch of Death
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/15/1991
Arcane experiments on an innocent man by murdering him and trying to revive him with a serum, stolen from Alec Holland years ago. The man comes back to life again with severe side effects for anyone who touches him, even the Swamp Thing.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.3/1026 votesLoading...#22 - This Old House of Mayan
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/6/1992
Will is taken hostage by two greedy explorers who force him to help them find the location of a mystic Mayan temple in the swamp, housing buried treasure and ghosts.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steven L. Sears
6.3/1023 votesLoading...#23 - Special Request
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/1992
Still fruitlessly searching for her missing son Jim, Tressa is diverted when she hears the voice of her former boyfriend, a radio jockey from the 70's. Tressa begins a second hunt for answers, as she discovers what really happened when her boyfriend disappeared 18 years ago, guided by his voice from the grave.
Director: John McPherson
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1020 votesLoading...
#24 - Patient Zero
Season 3 Episode 29 - Aired 2/20/1993
An old man has a deadly, infectious virus that only Alec's blood can cure. Arcane tries to exploit the disease for himself.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Swamp Thing
Every episode of Swamp Thing ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Swamp Thing!
Swamp Thing: The Series, is a science fiction, action/adventure television series based on the DC Comics character Swamp Thing. It debuted on USA Network on...
Genres:Action & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:USA Network
Best Episodes Summary
"Dead and Married" is the best rated episode of "Swamp Thing". It scored 7.1/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Steven L. Sears, it aired on 7/10/1992. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Never Alone".
