Dirty Jobs

Dirty Jobs

PRIMETIME EMMYS® 2X nominee in 2010
Host Mike Rowe offers an unflinching look at American men and women who make their living doing the most unthinkable, but vital, jobs.
IMDb 7.7200924 episodesTV-PG
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Episodes

  1. S3 E1 - Steel Mill Worker

    January 14, 2008
    42min
    16+
    Mike Rowe gets dirty in St. Louis as he works with a river barge demolition team and then melts down the scrap steel into molten metal.
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  2. S3 E2 - Cave Biologist

    November 6, 2003
    44min
    TV-PG
    Mike Rowe teams up with a cave biologist that takes him underground into a labyrinth of Kentucky caves. Then he braves the high seas in search of slime eels.
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  3. S3 E3 - Buoy Cleaner

    November 20, 2003
    44min
    TV-PG
    Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty with an Oregon family that has mastered the art of making wood shingles. Then he jumps on a Coast Guard ship to clean buoys off the coast of San Francisco.
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  4. S3 E4 - Cranberry Farmer

    November 13, 2003
    42min
    TV-PG
    Mike Rowe gets dirty at a North Carolina brick company that specializes in making handmade bricks. Then he masters the art of cranberry farming in Oregon.
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  5. S3 E5 - Mud Mineral Excavator

    February 11, 2008
    44min
    TV-PG
    Mike Rowe gets dirty at a California mineral mine where everything seems to go wrong. Then he heads to a South Carolina rice plantation where he masters the art of milling rice.
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  6. S3 E6 - Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple

    April 13, 2008
    44min
    TV-PG
    Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty with some of the dirtiest jobs in the big apple. First Mike climbs to the top of a giant building to build a water tower, and then he masters the art of elevator repair.
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  7. S3 E7 - Floating Fish Factory

    April 20, 2008
    44min
    TV-PG
    In this special Dirty Jobs episode, Mike travels to the great state of Alaska for an epic adventure aboard a fish processing ship. He gains a new appreciation for the men and women who get dirty to put fresh fish on our dinner table.
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  8. S3 E8 - Dairy Cow Midwife

    April 27, 2008
    44min
    TV-14
    Inside an Indiana dairy farm, Mike learns how to milk a cow and use a blow torch to clean her udders. Then, Mike gets the inside scoop on how to inseminate a cow, and he gets an up-close look at fatherhood as he helps deliver baby calves.
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  9. S3 E9 - Aerial Tram Greaser

    May 4, 2008
    44min
    TV-PG
    Mike heads to the site of a future California neighborhood where he learns that there's more to erosion control than one might think. Then Mike gets a bird's eye view of Palm Springs, CA, as he helps maintain and repair the tram 8,500 feet above the city.
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  10. S3 E10 - Turkey Inseminator

    May 11, 2008
    44min
    TV-14
    Mike Rowe crawls through rat drops, falling insulation and debris to make a house more energy efficient. Then, he visits a turkey farm where the birds are inseminated and feels the power of destruction at a salvage yard where cars are crushed into cubes.
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  11. S3 E11 - Ice Salvage Crew

    May 18, 2008
    44min
    16+
    Mike Rowe gets dirty in Alaska as he helps protect the environment by cleaning up an oil spill and then travels to Minnesota, where he works to pull a car out of a lake that has fallen through the ice.
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  12. S3 E12 - Wind Farm Technician

    June 1, 2008
    44min
    16+
    Mike Rowe heads to an Oklahoma wind farm and learns that going green sometimes means you've got to get brown first. Then he heads to Kentucky to clean out a sink hole that some have unfortunately turned into a garbage dump.
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  13. S3 E13 - Tar Rigger

    October 6, 2008
    44min
    TV-PG
    Mike heads to San Diego to get dirty with the tar rigging crew of the Star of India, the oldest active merchant ship in the world. Then, Mike takes a look back at some of the dirty tools he's used that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
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  14. S3 E14 - Dirty Chip Maker

    October 13, 2008
    44min
    16+
    Mike heads to the Dirty Potato Chips factory and learns how potato chips are made and what it takes to keep the machines used to make them clean and in working order. Then it's off to Rifle, CO, where Mike attempts to clean a "monster" hidden underground.
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  15. S3 E15 - Sheep Castrator

    October 20, 2008
    42min
    TV-14
    Mike works at an auto dealership where the job is sawing down a giant concrete wall to make room for a new wash bay, then heads to a sheep farm where he tries his hand at sheep shearing and castrating before getting treated to Rocky Mountain Oysters.
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  16. S3 E16 - Leech Trapper

    October 27, 2008
    42min
    TV-PG
    Mike teams up with the boys from Bartos Bait and Fish to catch leeches that will later be sold for fish bait. Then it's off to the Green Tripe factory in Hollister, CA, where Mike helps make BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) for dogs.
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  17. S3 E17 - Mannequin Factory

    November 10, 2008
    44min
    TV-PG
    Mike finds himself at the Windsorland Mobile Home Park where homes are being broken down to make room for a new shopping center. Then, he heads off to Patina-V where he learns that making mannequins is not only a dirty job, but a form of art as well.
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  18. S3 E18 - Animal Barber

    June 8, 2008
    42min
    TV-14
    Mike and the crew travel to the Spring Brook Ranch in Kalispell, Montana, to join forces with a yak and bison rancher who puts him to work on his 150th Dirty Job. It's a celebration of dirt as Mike and the crew go to work.
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  19. S3 E19 - Egg Farm

    November 17, 2008
    42min
    TV-PG
    Mike visits a chicken farm to see how eggs make it to the store. There, he finds out that 1.4 million chickens equal a lot of poo, which he gets the chance to clean. Later, Mike learns how dirty dirt becomes clean dirt as he sterilizes soil in Oklahoma.
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  20. S3 E20 - Vellum Maker

    November 24, 2008
    44min
    TV-14
    Mike travels to Yakama, Washington, to harvest hops, the main ingredient in beer. From there Mike goes to the Hudson Valley where he turns animal hides into paper.
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  21. S3 E21 - Maggot Farmer

    December 1, 2008
    44min
    TV-PG
    Mike travels to Congress, Arizona, to try his hand at moving a giant cactus before a storm comes in. Then Mike heads to Idaho, where he visits a special kind of farm, one that raises maggots.
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  22. S3 E22 - Gourd Maker

    December 8, 2008
    44min
    7+
    Mike travels to the middle of Connecticut to clean out a lake, then drops by a gourd farm in Pennsylvania and transforms gourds into a variety of products.
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  23. S3 E23 - Bologna Maker

    January 5, 2009
    44min
    TV-PG
    Mike heads to Pennsylvania to try his hand at making bologna and then goes to Alaska to repair a very special toilet.
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  24. S3 E24 - Abandoned Mine Plugger

    January 12, 2009
    44min
    TV-PG
    Mike travels to Ohio to check on the common tern population at a wildlife refuge. He then heads to Northern California to plug an abandoned mineshaft.
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