Season 1 (1990-1991)
| Title | # | Airdate | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| PART 1 | |||
| The Emerald Heart | 01 | July 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. |
| The Living Image | 02 | September 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. |
| The Death of Dr. Arcane | 03 | September 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. |
| Legend of the Swamp Maiden | 04 | September 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. |
| Spirit of the Swamp | 05 | September 28, 1990 | Veteran actor Roscoe Lee Browne plays a "Ogun" which is a voodoo priest whom Arcane employs to overcome Swamp Thing. |
| Blood Wind | 06 | October 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. |
| Grotesquesy | 07 | October 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 run 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. |
| Natural Enemy | 08 | October 19, 1990 | Swamp Thing is teaching Jim about endangered plants 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 Arcane, lands in the hospital, and the mysterious insect follows and goes after Tressa. |
| Treasure | 09 | October 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. |
| New Acquaintance | 10 | November 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. |
| Falco | 11 | November 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”. |
| From Beyond the Grave | 12 | November 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 who 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. |
| The Shipment | 13 | November 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. Although they are successful in locating and destroying Arcane's lab, they are too late as Jim is already gone from the country, and the sheriff is one step head of their moves. |
| PART 2 | |||
| Birth Marks | 14 | February 1, 1991 | A runaway teenage synthetic human, named Abigail, escapes from Dr. Woodroe's lab and is seen running through the streets from an exploding boat by Will who takes her in and she establishes herself as a new 'friend' with Will who is helping Tressa open her own bait and tackle shop. Meanwhile, a baby is swept away by the waters of the swamp from the same explosion into the arms of the Swamp Thing. |
| The Dark Side of the Mirror | 15 | February 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. |
| Silent Screams | 16 | February 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. |
| Walk a Mile In My Shoots | 17 | February 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. |
| The Watchers | 18 | March 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. |
| The Hunt | 19 | March 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. |
| Touch of Death | 20 | March 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. |
| Tremors of the Heart | 21 | March 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. |
| The Prometheus Parabola | 22 | April 5, 1991 | Tressa and Abigail are taken hostage by a man with a score to settle with Arcane, and who 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. |
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