Actor/stuntman Dick Durock, who played Swamp Thing in both films, reprised his role for the more serious-toned TV series (with Lonnie R. Smith Jr. & Patrick Neil Quinn portraying Alec Holland in flashbacks, etc.).

He wore a modified version of Carl Fullerton and Neal Martz's latex suit created for The Return of Swamp Thing, and he spoke in an electronically altered basso profundo.

[2] Since his profuse sweating caused the lip and eye prosthetics to fall off while shooting the previous films, Durock simply had makeup applied in those areas for his television costume: "In the first feature, it took close to four hours.

Swamp Thing regularly featured guest actors, such as Roscoe Lee Browne as Duchamp (a Voodoo Houngan/Bokor, who refers to Swamp Thing as "Loa of Green Things" or the "Spirit of the Swamp"), Tyne Daly as Arcane's rival Carla Jeffries, Wolfman Jack as a carnival owner, Debby Boone as the estranged daughter of a beloved local woman, Philip Michael Thomas as a ghost trapped for eternity with his bickering wife, Andrew Stevens as a politician, One Life to Live stars Robert S. Woods and John Loprieno as escaped convicts, Summer Phoenix as a local friend of Jim's, and Adam Curry as a rock star.

Also, returning from the 1982 film, actor Ray Wise, who portrayed Alec Holland-pre-metamorphosis, appears in the 3rd season episode, "Never Alone" as a man who thinks that he and Swamp Thing are both aliens.

The series also introduced characters like the Kipp family, as well as a completely new incarnation of Anton Arcane played by Mark Lindsay Chapman.

The series currently airs on Heroes & Icons, along with many other 1990s syndicated live action shows such as Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

[4] The series failed to reach a considerable mainstream approval but has gained a cult following thanks in part to the unintentional camp value of the early episodes.

Adam-Troy Castro of SciFi.com gave a largely unimpressed review of the series' first DVD set, noting that "somehow the action never amounts to very much, because the staging is consistently beyond awful".

Calling it "a marathon of bad clichés, disjointed plot lines, lame acting, and even lamer stories devoid of any ironic pop culture worth at all", he gave the DVD set a 2/10 rating.

Winistorfer also expressed frustration in the episodes being organized by original air dates rather than production order, causing numerous plot inconsistencies.

[6][7] At one point during the show's run, an animated series based on the comic book was broadcast on Fox; this effort was cancelled after only five episodes aired in 1991.

Cast members reunited to film extras for the DVDs, and Durock embarked on a tour of fan conventions to promote the new releases.

Episodes in this DVD were: "Night Of The Dying", "Love Lost", "Mist Demeanor", "A Nightmare On Jackson Street", "Better Angels", "Children Of The Fool", and "A Jury Of His Fears".