Swamp Thing

When an attempt on Dr. Alec Holland's life leaves him consumed by deadly chemicals and fire, the swamps of Louisiana transform him into a superhuman creature hell-bent on ridding the swamp--and the world--of the evil that men do.

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi

Cast:Mark Lindsay Chapman , Dick Durock , Scott Garrison , Kevin Quigley , Carrell Myers , Jesse Zeigler , Anthony Galde , Kari Wuhrer , Marc Macaulay , William Arvin , Patrick Neil Quinn , Jacob Witkin , Doc Duhame , John F. Hoye , Janet Julian , Judy Clayton , Larry Manetti , Tom Nowicki

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Emerald Heart

Fri, Jul 27, 1990

Jim encounters Humphrey, a dwarf who has escaped from the evil Dr. Arcane.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Living Image

Fri, Sep 7, 1990

Arcane makes a woman look like Holland's wife. He makes sure Holland a.k.a. Swamp Thing sees her. He approaches her and she runs away. He later tests her. She then asks him for his notes hoping it could help him. But Arcane is after one of his formulas. At the same time Holland recalls his last moments with his wife and moment when he became Swamp Thing because of Arcane.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Death of Dr. Arcane

Fri, Sep 14, 1990

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Legend of the Swamp Maiden

Fri, Sep 21, 1990

The Swamp Maiden seduces Obo before turning him into a monster.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Spirit of the Swamp

Fri, Sep 28, 1990

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Blood Wind

Fri, Oct 5, 1990

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Grotesquery

Fri, Oct 12, 1990

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Natural Enemy

Fri, Oct 19, 1990

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Treasure

Fri, Oct 26, 1990

A sickly stranger claiming to be Tressa's long-lost brother appears at the Langford house.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ New Acquaintance

Fri, Nov 2, 1990

Jim befriends a little girl with volatile behavior.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Falco

Fri, Nov 9, 1990

Swamp Thing encounters Falco, who has come to kill Dr. Arcane for turning him from a bird into a man.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ From Beyond the Grave

Fri, Nov 16, 1990

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ The Shipment

Fri, Nov 23, 1990

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Birth Marks

Fri, Feb 1, 1991

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Dark Side of the Mirror

Fri, Feb 8, 1991

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Silent Screams

Fri, Feb 15, 1991

Two of Tressa's friends are trapped in an invisible stealth shield developed by Dr. Arcane.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Walk a Mile in My Shoots

Fri, Feb 22, 1991

Arcane trades bodies with Swamp Thing after setting a trap using Will as bait.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ The Watchers

Fri, Mar 1, 1991

Arcane creates two cyborgs to hunt down the sole survivor of Dr. Woodrue's experiment.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ The Hunt

Fri, Mar 8, 1991

Will's father, an adventurer by trade, arrives in town to search for a rare flower.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Touch of Death

Fri, Mar 15, 1991

Arcane injects a dead man with a life-restoring serum that gives him the "touch of death".

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Tremors of the Heart

Fri, Mar 22, 1991

Arcane experiments with artificial earthquakes.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ The Prometheus Parabola

Fri, Apr 5, 1991

Tressa is taken hostage by a man with a score to settle with Arcane.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Night of the Dying

Fri, Jan 3, 1992

A vengeful voodoo priestess ensnares Arcane in a voodoo curse as revenge for his enslavement of Jim Kipp, who had once saved a cousin of hers from drowning. Alec helps Graham and a kindly voodoo priest save Arcane from certain death.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Love Lost

Fri, Jan 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.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Mist Demeanor

Fri, Jan 17, 1992

Killer mist from the swamp attacks Houma, putting residents in grave danger. Arcane and Alec team up to to find an antidote, while Abigail and Will hunt for a boy who may be lost in the mist. Can they stop the mist before someone gets hurt?

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ A Nightmare on Jackson Street

Fri, Jan 24, 1992

Will's past comes back to haunt him not only in his dreams but here in his new home when a friend shows up who was involved in a robbery.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Better Angels

Fri, Jan 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.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Children of the Fool

Fri, Feb 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.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ A Jury of His Fears

Fri, Feb 14, 1992

After an eletrical explosion in his lab apparently kills Arcane, our arch fiend finds himself on trial in a nightmarish comedy of his crimes against his victims.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Poisonous

Fri, Feb 21, 1992

How will Swamp Thing deal with a man who has captured footage of him on film and the deadly creatures released into the swamp?

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Smoke and Mirrors

Fri, Feb 28, 1992

A rock singer tries to run away from the consequences of the morbid overtones in the lyrics of his songs after two fans committ suicide to the suggestions therein.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ This Old House of Mayan

Fri, Mar 6, 1992

Can Will escape the wrath of guardians to a lost Mayan temple within the swamp when he is forced to be an unwilling guide?

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Sonata

Fri, Mar 20, 1992

Ann Fisk decides to confront the Swamp Thing that he is in actuality Dr. Alec Holland.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Dead and Married

Fri, Jul 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.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Powers of Darkness

Fri, Jul 17, 1992

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

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Special Request

Fri, Jul 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.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ What Goes Around, Comes Around

Fri, Jul 31, 1992

Sheriff Andrews allows Dr. Arcane to hunt an employee for sport. To teach Andrews a lesson, Alec traps him a fantasy of the old west populated by familiar faces, forcing him to duel the evil Renegade Jake in a fight to the death.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Fear Itself

Fri, Aug 7, 1992

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

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Changes

Fri, Aug 14, 1992

Arcane has created a poison engineered to specifically target Swamp Thing's genetic code. Ann has discovered a method of temporarily changing Alec back to human form.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Destiny

Fri, Aug 21, 1992

Temporally displaced Confederate Civil War soldiers appear in the swamp, one of whom is a previous residence of Will's house. Will helps the man to discover the mystery behind his wartime disappearance and make peace with his past so he can pass on.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Tatania

Fri, Aug 28, 1992

Arcane resurrects his wife Tatania only to learn the woman he's kept frozen all these years is Kitty Lane, an exotic dancer and impostor placed in Arcane's lab by General Sunderland. Sunderland has been holding the real Tatania captive.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Mirador's Brain

Fri, Sep 11, 1992

Arcane uploads the memory of his former teacher directly into his own. In an ironic twist of justice Carl Mirador was schizophrenic and is now driving Arcane insane.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Lesser of Two Evils

Sat, Sep 19, 1992

When Carla Jeffries uses Arcane's own scheming ways against him to take over his complex, the doctor and Swamp Thing must work together to save both the swamp and Arcane's life.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Revelations

Sat, Sep 26, 1992

When Arcane hires mercenaries to kill Swamp Thing, the injured creature uses Anne Fisk's equipment to try to heal himself, temporarily becoming human again. Tressa discovers his secret, and tries to help him.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Easy Prey

Sat, Oct 3, 1992

A wealthy hunter stalks and wounds a rare hawk for a trophy. Afterward the swamp takes Will into it's confidence and Will sees the swamp as he never has before.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ The Handyman

Sat, Oct 10, 1992

The body of a dead man leads Swamp Thing to Arcane and Gen. Sunderland.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Future Tense

Sat, Oct 17, 1992

A glimpse into a future devastated by man-made environmental disaster ensures that Senator Parker will take action to prevent it happening - to the best of his ability, at least. But that may not be enough.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Hide in the Night

Sat, Oct 24, 1992

When Dr. Arcane "dies" during a mutation experiment gone wrong, Graham accuses Stella of attempting to replace him in the lab by seducing Arcane. During their fight Graham falls for Stella, conceding that Arcane must have seduced her "in mind, if not body." Their tender moment is ruined, however, when Graham is alerted to a break-in at the lab: it's Dr. Arcane, reduced to his inner beast by the failed experiment. Can Graham stop him before tragedy strikes?

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Pay Day

Sat, Oct 31, 1992

Swamp Thing gifts the chance to make things right to three criminals who break out of Houma Prison.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ The Return of LaRoche

Sat, Nov 7, 1992

On a planned 'de-stressing' holiday, Arcane is attacked by an old enemy who is supposed to be locked away in an asylum. But LaRoche is a master of hypnotism, and forces unlikely allies to help him.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Rites of Passage

Sat, Nov 14, 1992

Two spoilt rich girls inveigle Will, against his will, into taking them into the swamp so they can perform a ritual to give them three wishes. In the course of teaching them a lesson in humility, Will makes a discovery about himself.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Never Alone

Sat, Nov 21, 1992

When an injured escapee from a mental hospital arrives at Will and Tressa's door after running into Alec, he claims to be an alien on a mission. He's obviously insane - or is he?

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ A Most Bitter Pill

Sat, Dec 5, 1992

Trapped in a cave with Alec and facing death by suffocation, Arcane reviews his life in a grand soliloquy. He can lie to others, but ultimately, can he lie to himself?

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ The Curse

Sat, Dec 12, 1992

40 years ago a plane carrying valuable Egyptian antiquities and a mummy crashed in the swamp. Arcane supports an expedition to find it, but his interest is far more than financial.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Judgment Day

Sat, Dec 19, 1992

Arrested for a murder he did not commit, Will's situation looks desperate when his attorney turns out to be a crooked prosecutor with ambitions to rise to the senate. Can Alec help prove his friend's innocence?

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ Eye of the Storm

Sat, Jan 9, 1993

Tressa's estranged sister arrives, unwittingly bringing danger with her. As a class 5 hurricane rages, will Alec be able to save his human friends?

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ Vendetta

Sat, Jan 16, 1993

An attractive reporter arrives unannounced to interview Arcane, but she is not what she seems, and her hidden agenda threatens both the doctor and the swamp.

25Season 3

S3.E25 ∙ The Hurting

Sat, Jan 23, 1993

Swamp Thing helps Cathy comprehend her late, alienated mother by showing her visions of her mother's teen-age life.

26Season 3

S3.E26 ∙ The Burning Times

Sat, Jan 30, 1993

Rowan, who claims that she and Will were married in a previous life before she was burned as a witch, finds herself accused of murder. Can she find her true self before the angry mob takes the law into their own hands?

27Season 3

S3.E27 ∙ The Specter of Death

Sat, Feb 6, 1993

When one of Dr. Arcane's experiments is inexplicably ruined, Graham suspects poltergeists. Arcane swiftly discovers the spirit of General Sunderland is haunting the swamp, and has plans for revenge.

28Season 3

S3.E28 ∙ Cross-Fired

Sat, Feb 13, 1993

Arcane's sonic experiment, designed to kill Alec, cross-fires and turns him into his opposite - a kind, generous, considerate man, horrified at his treatment of Alec. However, if he can stop the experiment, it may change him back again.

29Season 3

S3.E29 ∙ Patient Zero

Sat, Feb 20, 1993

Alec's 'blood' is the cure for a deadly virus, effective at temperatures over 40 degrees, infecting Dr Parnell.

30Season 3

S3.E30 ∙ The Chains of Forever

Sat, Feb 27, 1993

Will becomes involved with a couple who hold a map that Arcane has a keen interest in obtaining.

31Season 3

S3.E31 ∙ In the Beginning

Sat, Mar 6, 1993

When Arcane combines his DNA with that of the deadliest plants he can find, he unwittingly creates a monster.

32Season 3

S3.E32 ∙ Brotherly Love

Sat, Mar 13, 1993

Life gets very interesting for Will, Tressa and Alec when Brad's psychopathic brother turns up.

33Season 3

S3.E33 ∙ An Eye for an Eye

Sat, Mar 20, 1993

When the swamp stalks Arcane 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.

34Season 3

S3.E34 ∙ Yo Ho Ho

Sat, Mar 27, 1993

Little Joshua's overactive imagination mistakes Arcane's hydration units for pirate treasure. Are they as innocent as they sound?

35Season 3

S3.E35 ∙ Heart of Stone

Sat, Apr 3, 1993

As the gods look on, two figures from mythology play out an ancient story. But can Alec break the curse before his friends die?

36Season 3

S3.E36 ∙ Romancing Arcane

Sat, Apr 10, 1993

Arcane's emerald-making machine threatens Columbia's monopoly on the precious gems, bringing him to the government's notice. But his greed hides a deeper and more sinister agenda.

37Season 3

S3.E37 ∙ Swamp of Dreams

Sat, Apr 17, 1993

Swamp thing finds some "eggs" in the swamp and this makes him start dreaming about when he was human and was in love.

38Season 3

S3.E38 ∙ Heart of the Mantis

Sat, Apr 24, 1993

When Arcane's mentor Dr. Oliver Duncan is mysteriously killed, everyone assumes Arcane is to blame. Unfazed, Arcane attempts to steal Duncan's cold fusion research by romancing his daughter Louise, who has plans of her own.

39Season 3

S3.E39 ∙ That's a Wrap

Sat, May 1, 1993

Arcane's genius is about to be publicly lauded in an autobiographical film. But the actor playing him is found murdered in Arcane's trailer. Who was the murderer - and was Arcane the intended victim?