Dirty Jobs

Mike gets dirty at a famous barbecue joint, joins forces with a large-animal veterinarian, and finds himself deep in New Jersey sludge.

Mike Rowe takes on some more dirty jobs as he gets busy melting down scrap steel into molten metal; he then joins a river barge demolition team in St Louis.

Mike Rowe samples some more of the dirtier jobs as he works with a cave biologist and then braves the ocean to search for slime eels.

Mike Rowe travels to Oregon to make shingles and then rides on a Coast Guard ship to clean dirty buoys.

Join host Mike Rowe as he gets down and dirty making handmade bricks in South Carolina; he later masters the art of cranberry farming in Oregon.

Everything goes wrong for Mike at a California mineral mine; then it's off to South Carolina to master rice milling.

Join Mike Rowe as he takes on some of the dirtiest jobs in New York City; he scales a skyscraper to build a water tower on the roof before trying his hand at lift repair.

Mike goes on an epic adventure aboard a fish processing ship in the great state of Alaska, gaining a new appreciation for the people who work tirelessly to catch, freeze and gut fish to put fresh food on our dinner table.

Mike milks a cow in Indiana and uses a blowtorch to clean her udder; he also partakes in inseminating a cow and delivering calves.

Mike learns there's more to erosion control than one might think; Mike helps maintain and repair a tram that's 8,500 feet above Palm Springs, Calif.

Mike works to make a house more energy efficient as he crawls through dead rats, falling fiberglass insulation and debris; he then travels to a turkey farm to try his hand at turkey inseminating.

Mike travels to Alaska where he cleans up an oil spill and then travels to Minnesota to pull a car out of a lake.

At an Oklahoma wind farm, Mike finds that being green is dirtier work than he had imagined; in Kentucky he cleans out a sinkhole which has been used as a rubbish dump.

Mike and the crew take on their 150th dirty job as they travel to the Spring Brook Ranch in Kalispell, Montana, and help out a yak and bison rancher.

Mike travels to San Diego and works with the tar-rigging crew on the oldest active merchant ship in the world, the Star of India.

Mike heads to the Dirty Potato Chips company in Oxnard, California where much of the work being done by machine. Despite this Mike finds a way to lend a hand.

Mike works at an automobile dealership, sawing down a giant concrete wall for a new car-wash bay, then heads to a farm to try his hand at sheep-shearing and castrating.

Mike Rowe helps the boys from Bartos Bait and Fish catch leeches; later on he heads to the Green Tripe Factory where he makes biologically appropriate raw food for dogs.

Mike demolishes the Windsorland Mobile Home Park in order to make way for a brand new shopping center; after that it's off to Patina-V mannequin factory.

Mike Rowe learns about the life of an egg - from the chicken to the frying pan; unfortunately for him he then has to clean up the waste generated by 1.4 million chickens.

Mike finds him harvesting hops in Yakima, Wash. then converting animal hides into paper in New York's Hudson Valley.

Mike tries to move a giant cactus in Arizona and then travels to a maggot farm in Idaho to learn their purpose.

Mike cleans out a Connecticut lake, then travels to Pennsylvania to a gourd farm to make artwork out of the gourds for Halloween time.