Dirty Jobs

Mike introduces his work with the US Army, shares stories and answers viewer mail.

Mike Rowe meets his match when he travels to South Africa to train monkeys to run wild.

Mike Rowe joins a crew of filthy farmers on their job at Taylor Shellfish Farms, gets down and dirty in the tropics as he farms taro and finds out that animals don't like haircuts when he joins a family of alpaca farmers to shear their alpacas.

Mike Rowe joins a crew at a rock quarry and addresses some bovine foot problems.

Mike helps salvage experts tear apart a dormitory and works as a coal miner.

Mike joins forces with the Air Force to clean Stratotanker fuel tanks at McConnell Air Force Base.

Mike finds himself waist deep in mud as he harvests clams in the cold waters of Puget Sound.

Mike Rowe helps keep trains on track, links Boudin sausages and cleans animal skulls and bones.

Mike challenges his executive producers to attempt a dirty job of their own.

Mike teams up with a group of garbage collectors converting trash into electricity.

Mike Rowe faces his fear of parades when he works to dismantle floats from the Rose Parade.

Mike joins forces with a Las Vegas pig farmer with an ingenious way to recycle leftovers.

Mike wages war against millions of termites that have attacked a local church.

Mike reunites with a catfish noodler for some backbreaking plumbing and drills for oil.

Mixing horse manure and soiled straw to make mushrooms, cleaning rat-infested storm drains in Los Angeles, and making shower drains in Erie, PA, it's a Dirty Job!

Mike visits one of the dirtiest places on earth, a sugar mill. Firefighters teach Mike how to light a building on fire, put it out and then he visits a menacing alligator farm.

Mike examines the short lives of turkeys then it's off to a potato farm. Mike also removes sewage from a water treatment plant as well.

Mike lends a helping hand at a Colorado marble quarry and then collects owl vomit.

Mike Rowe learns the tricks of the trade at the Chimney Sweeping Safety Institute.

Mike Rowe works at a Hawaiian pharmaceutical plant that specializes in growing green algae.

Mike Rowe recovers grease and learns to convert cooking oil into a gasoline alternative.

Mike Rowe climbs aboard a shrimp boat and teams up with a man who catches crawfish for a living.

Mike Rowe works as a zookeeper, learns how to make cheese and mixes volcanic-ash mud baths.

Join Mike Rowe as he rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty on a Hawaiian coffee bean plantation; as he learns how to nurse an injured sea lion pup back to health; and as he works as an ostrich farmer in the California desert.