Dirty Jobs

Season 1

Follows the exploits of Mike Rowe as he performs various dirty and dangerous jobs around the USA.

13 Episodes

  • Chinatown Garbage Collector
    E1
    Chinatown Garbage CollectorGarbage collector/recycling separator, shark catcher/tagger, car recycling
  • Sewer Inspector
    E2
    Sewer InspectorMike Rowe steps into the shoes of a sewer inspector in San Francisco, and enlists a disaster clean up crew after a Brooklyn toilet explodes from a sewer backup. He then joins up with a demolition company where he works as part of a deconstruction crew.
  • Pig Farmer
    E3
    Pig FarmerMike Rowe steps into the shoes of an Iowa pig farmer where he faces the challenges of feeding and cleaning up after hundreds of dirty pigs. Then Mike learns how to care for a new litter of piglets, and artificially inseminates a female pig.
  • Chick Sexer
    E4
    Chick SexerMike Rowe gets dirty as an Iowa chick sexer. Every Friday there are over 80,000 chicks born at the Murray McMurray Hatchery and it's Mike's job to sort the boys from the girls by the end of the day when they're shipped out to farms around the country.
  • Vexcon
    E5
    VexconMike catches crabs, processes them then eats them which wasn't easy after seeing them processed. Next he goes into the horse shoe business and shoes a horse while it does it's business. Finally he visits a house that is more home to rats, roaches and snakes than people.
  • Sludge Cleaner
    E6
    Sludge CleanerMike Rowe gets dirty as he works with surfboard shaper Matt Barker. Mike masters the art of shaping a surfboard from Styrofoam. And Mike goes underground into a greasy pit of sludge as he joins an environmental company that recycles the gunky grime.
  • Hot Tar Roofer
    E7
    Hot Tar RooferMike first heads off to Pasadena, California and discovers the difficult step by step process in patching up a roof. Then Mike goes to New Jersey and helps move a 60 ton, 225 year old house.
  • Ostrich Farmer
    E8
    Ostrich FarmerMike visits a coffee plantation in Hawaii and learns about the long process in how to make coffee, from picking the beans to roasting them. Mike then goes to Sausalito, CA to be a marine mammal rescuer and help rehabilitate some injured seals.Finally, Mike learns about ostrich farming, from their daily upkeep to collecting their eggs.
  • Cheese Maker
    E9
    Cheese MakerMike Rowe gets a taste of what it's like to work as a Zookeeper at the San Francisco Zoo. He then teams up with Vermont cheese makers to learn how to turn four thousand gallons of milk into world famous cheese, and mixes volcanic ash mud baths.
  • Shrimper
    E10
    ShrimperMike goes to South Carolina and learns about shrimping. He also helps study the shrimp population in order to find out when it's time to open the shrimping season. Mike then goes to the swamps of Louisiana to catch some crawfish. Finally, Mike goes to Washington to clean up an illegal tire dump and recycle some tires.
  • Bio-Diesel Man
    E11
    Bio-Diesel ManMike goes to Washington and helps build a house out of cob, which is basically a combination of sand, clay, and straw.Mike then heads to California and works alongside Dave the bee man to get rid of some bee's infesting a church.Finally, Mike goes back to Washington and helps clean out the old oil from a deep fryer at a Mexican restaurant and then recycle the oil into fuel or bio-diesel.
  • Micro-Algae Man
    E12
    Micro-Algae ManMike begins by traveling to Palo Alto, CA to learn how to be a pet groomer, from cutting hair to giving baths. Mike then goes to Hawaii to turn happy green algae into unhappy red algae to be used as antioxidant gelcaps for human consumption. Finally, Mike goes to Missouri to learn how to be a charcoal factory worker. Mike ends the day with a barbeque and introduces us to the crew that help make the show.
  • Chimney Sweeper
    E13
    Chimney SweeperMike first goes to the Chimney Safety Institute of America in Plainfield, IN and learns how to be a certified chimney sweeper. Mike then goes to Ontario, Canada to salvage underwater logs, which are then used to make furniture. Finally, Mike visits a scrap metal recycler in St. Louis, MO and learns how to separate different metals and operate some big machines.

Cast of Season 1

  • Mike RoweHimself - Host
  • Kenitra FordProducer
  • Mary E. DonahueProducer
  • Scott PopjesProducer
  • Eddie RohwedderProducer
  • Leigh PurintonProducer
  • Dave BarskyProducer
  • Heath BanksProducer

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