Season 3 (1992-1993)
| Title | # | Airdate | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dead and Married | 34 | July 10, 1992 | Will finds a car in the swamp containing the skeletons of a couple who were driven off the road 10 years earlier in which their ghosts haunt the car and only Swamp Thing can see or hear them in which he acts as their conduit to get Will’s help to help them find their killers at their upcoming 30th high school reunion dance. |
| Powers of Darkness | 35 | July 17, 1992 | Dorian is an emotionally troubled teenager who is convinced that he's a vampire. Will thinks that Dorian is just under the delusion that he’s a vampire in order to escape from his troubled home life which includes his emotionally barren mother and her abusive dirty cop boyfriend. Can Swamp Thing and Will rid him of this delusion? |
| Special Request | 36 | July 24, 1992 | Still fruitlessly searching for her missing son Jim, Tressa is diverted when she hears the voice of a long-dead former boyfriend, a radio DJ from the 1970s over a radio trying to communicate with her over his mysterious disappearance 18 years earlier. |
| What Goes Around Comes Around, Comes Around | 37 | July 31, 1992 | Sheriff Andrews allows Dr. Arcane to hunt an employee for sport. To teach Andrews a lesson, Swamp Thing traps the corrupt sheriff a fantasy of the Wild West populated by familiar faces, forcing him to duel the evil Renegade Jake in a fight to the death. |
| Fear Itself | 38 | August 7, 1992 | Mephisto torments Swamp Thing with nightmarish visions of his most darkest fears involving his own fear, loneliness and the people of his past and present. |
| Changes | 39 | August 14, 1992 | When Arcane unleashes a virus that could be fatal to Swamp Thing, Ann does research and apparently finds a way to restore Alec's humanity with a special serum to change Swamp Thing back to his human self. But when the result is successful, Alec begins to think of the cost of his transformation when he learns that the effect may only be temporary. |
| Destiny | 40 | August 21, 1992 | The ghosts of two temporally displaced Confederate Civil War soldiers appear in the swamp, one of whom is a previous resident of Will's house. Swamp Thing assists Will to help the man to discover the mystery behind his wartime disappearance and make peace with his past so he can pass on into the great beyond. |
| Tatania | 41 | August 28, 1992 | Arcane finally 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 his benefactor General Sunderland. Sunderland has been holding the real Tatania captive which leads Arcane and Graham to mount an assault on Sunderland‘s compound. |
| Mirador's Brain | 42 | September 11, 1992 | Arcane's genius mentor, Carl Mirador, has died. Using an experimental brain cell transfer, Arcane transfers all of Mirador's knowledge into his own brain. This does not go well as Mirador physically takes over Arcane’s mind and body. Meanwhile, Will meets and falls for Mirador’s granddaughter, Dana. |
| Lesser of Two Evils | 43 | September 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? |
| Revelations | 44 | September 26, 1992 | Graham leads a team of heavily armed mercenaries into the swamp to kill Swamp Thing once and for all. Can Tressa save him? |
| Easy Prey | 45 | October 3, 1992 | A hunter and his tree-hugging environmentalist son search the swamp for an endangered hawk. Their conflict may prove deadly for Will who inexplicably obtains part of Swamp Thing’s power over nature to try to help the hunted hawk. |
| The Handyman | 46 | October 10, 1992 | Arcane hosts a science conference, but it's crashed by an ex-employee of his; a professional hit man who used to work for Sunderland and now has a score to settle. Swamp Thing discovers that the hit man is the same hit man responsible for Alec's transformation and the death of Alec's wife. |
| Future Tense | 47 | October 17, 1992 | A chemical plant causing toxic damage to the swamp is the key to a darker future for Swamp Thing. |
| Hide in the Night | 48 | October 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? |
| Pay Day | 49 | October 31, 1992 | Three convicts escape from prison in search of loot from a Las Vegas heist buried in the swamp. One by one they learn the justice of the swamp thanks to Swamp Thing. |
| The Return of LaRoche | 50 | November 7, 1992 | Arcane is convinced that Carter LaRoche is attacking him in the night. But LaRoche is locked up in an insane asylum. And he's getting pretty friendly with Will. |
| Rites of Passage | 51 | November 14, 1992 | Will leads two spoiled girls on a journey through the swamp that tests their character. |
| Never Alone | 52 | November 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 Swamp Thing is in danger. |
| A Most Bitter Pill | 53 | December 5, 1992 | Arcane, trapped in a cave with an unconscious Swamp Thing, launches into a monologue that sheds light on his motivations and (deep, enormous) neuroses. |
| The Curse | 54 | December 12, 1992 | Arcane and a scheming hack journalist unearth a cursed mummy. |
| Judgment Day | 55 | December 19, 1992 | Will's arrested for a murder he didn't commit. |
| Eye of the Storm | 56 | January 9, 1993 | Tressa’s long estranged sister returns looking for shelter from an enemy of her husband and ends up putting the swamp in danger. |
| Vendetta | 57 | January 16, 1993 | Arcane wines and dines a pretty reporter. But she's not who she claims to be. |
| The Hurting | 58 | January 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. |
| The Burning Times | 59 | January 30, 1993 | Will falls in love with a woman who claims to have known him in a past life. |
| The Specter of Death | 60 | February 6, 1993 | Arcane and Graham are haunted by a poltergeist. A familiar one. |
| Cross-Fired | 61 | February 13, 1993 | An experiment gone awry turns Arcane into a kind-hearted good guy and renders Swamp Thing evil and insane. |
| Patient Zero | 62 | February 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. |
| The Chains of Forever | 63 | February 27, 1993 | A mysterious couple search the swamp for the legendary Fountain of Youth. Unfortunately the megalomaniac 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 of whether the fountain exists. |
| In the Beginning | 64 | March 6, 1993 | Arcane accidentally creates a half-plant/half-robot. Can Swamp Thing and Will stop this madness? |
| Brotherly Love | 65 | March 13, 1993 | A man is dating Tressa but after a strange phone call, he runs away from her. |
| An Eye For an Eye | 66 | March 20, 1993 | A magical cougar from the swamp stalks Arcane determined to kill him and all his associates for the construction of a waste producing nuclear reactor and with Swamp Thing incapable of helping, it’s up to Will to try to rescue the evil doctor before the cougar kills him and spreads its evil to others. |
| Yo Ho Ho | 67 | March 27, 1993 | A little boy dreams of being a pirate, so Swamp Thing gives him his wish. |
| Heart of Stone | 68 | April 3, 1993 | The gods make a bet and the swamp is the playground. |
| Romancing Arcane | 69 | April 10, 1993 | Arcane falls in love with a model. But will his counterfeit emeralds scheme doom their romance? |
| Swamp of Dreams | 70 | April 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. |
| Heart of the Mantis | 71 | April 24, 1993 | One of Arcane's mentors, Oliver Duncan, has died, taking his secret research into Cold Fusion with him. Arcane's determined to get at what's left of his research by seducing Oliver's daughter, Louise. But Louise has plans of her own. |
| That's a Wrap | 72 | May 1, 1993 | A film crew comes to the swamp for a TV movie about Arcane. But things quickly go awry when the lead actor is murdered and mysterious script pages appear detailing the truth about Alec's transformation and Arcane's crimes. |
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