Host and everyman Mike Rowe gets the grimy scoop on downright nasty occupations.
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- Seasons
- 11
- Episodes aired
- 162
- Latest aired
- S11E08
- Total runtime
- 6d 10h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 July 2005 – November 2005 13 episodes
- Season 2 January 2006 – December 2006 20 episodes
- Season 3 January 2007 – December 2007 19 episodes
- Season 4 January 2008 – December 2008 26 episodes
- Season 5 January 2009 – December 2009 23 episodes
- Season 6 January 2010 – January 2011 22 episodes
- Season 7 January 2011 – March 2011 10 episodes
- Season 8 December 2011 – February 2012 11 episodes
- Season 9 August 2012 – September 2012 4 episodes
- the show was away for 9 years and 3 months
- Season 10 January 2022 – February 2022 6 episodes
- Season 11 December 2022 – February 2023 8 episodes
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S01E01 Chinatown Garbage Collector
July 26 · 60min find the promo
Show synopsis
Garbage collector/recycling separator, shark catcher/tagger, car recycling
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S01E02 Sewer Inspector
August 2 · 60min find the promo
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Sewer inspector, disaster cleanup crew member (basement sewer), demolition worker (office building interior)
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S01E03 Pig Farmer
August 9 · 60min find the promo
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Pig farmer, removing chewing gum from sidewalks (New York City), pigeon droppings removal (New York City)
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S01E04 Chick Sexer
August 16 · 60min find the promo
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Baby chicken sexer, beer brewer, oyster harvester
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S01E05 Vexcon
August 23 · 60min find the promo
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Exterminator, crab fisherman, blacksmith/farrier
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S01E06 Sludge Cleaner
August 30 · 60min find the promo
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Mike 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.
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S01E07 Hot Tar Roofer
September 27 · 60min find the promo
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Mike 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.
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S01E08 Ostrich Farmer
October 4 · 60min find the promo
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Mike 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.
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S01E09 Cheese Maker
October 11 · 60min find the promo
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Mike visits the San Francisco Zoo and learns what it's like to be a zookeeper, essentially feeding the animals and collecting their poo.Mike then goes to Vermont to a haunted cheese making factory and learns not only how to make cheese, but the art of patience.Finally, Mike learns how to be a volcano ash mud bath mixer (spa technician) in Calistoga, CA and takes a mud bath after a very dirty day. That's not all - Mike also journeys to a live volcano in Hawaii and gets up close and personal with some very hot lava.
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S01E10 Shrimper
October 18 · 60min find the promo
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Mike 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.
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S01E11 Bio-Diesel Man
October 25 · 60min find the promo
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Mike 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.
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S01E12 Micro-Algae Man
November 1 · 60min find the promo
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Mike 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.
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S01E13 Chimney Sweeper
November 8 · 60min find the promo
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Mike 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.