Dirty Jobs

Host and everyman Mike Rowe gets the grimy scoop on downright nasty occupations.

Seasons

11

Episodes aired

162

Latest aired

S11E08

Total runtime

6d 10h

Timeline when each season aired

1. Season 1 July 2005 – November 2005 13 episodes
2. Season 2 January 2006 – December 2006 20 episodes
3. Season 3 January 2007 – December 2007 19 episodes
4. Season 4 January 2008 – December 2008 26 episodes
5. Season 5 January 2009 – December 2009 23 episodes
6. Season 6 January 2010 – January 2011 22 episodes
7. Season 7 January 2011 – March 2011 10 episodes
8. Season 8 December 2011 – February 2012 11 episodes
9. Season 9 August 2012 – September 2012 4 episodes
10. the show was away for 9 years and 3 months
11. Season 10 January 2022 – February 2022 6 episodes
12. Season 11 December 2022 – February 2023 8 episodes

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  S11E01 Pool Fixer / Hotel Soap Recycler

  December 11 · 60min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Mike gets to clean the dirtiest pool in America as well as learning how to recycle dirty hotel soap.

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  S11E02 Feral Cat Fixer / Reaper Keeper

  December 18 · 60min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Mike Rowe helps the cat ladies of northern Texas and learns to processes peppers.

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  S11E03 Pile Jacketer / Concrete Cleaner

  January 1 · 60min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Mike Rowe submerges in a murky Florida river to pour concrete jackets around crumbling bridge pilings. While in North Carolina, Mike sucks out a concrete washout pit and sprays sediment as he turns toxic sludge into potable water.

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  S11E04 Caviar Harvester / Spice Maker

  January 8 find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Mike returns to his hometown Baltimore to rectify an OLD mistake and learns the recipe for Maryland's most popular crab seasoning.

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  S11E05 Baghouse Cleaner / Biochar Maker

  January 15 · 60min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Mike Rowe attends a dusty baghouse party to clean the filtration system at a North Carolina asphalt plant; in Colorado, Mike gets his dirtiest yet, pyrolyzing waste lumber into the planet's most efficient fertilizer: biochar.

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  S11E06 Deer Urine Farmer / Necropsy

  January 22 · 60min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Mike Rowe travels to Anna, Ill., and wades knee-deep in diarrhea to collect deer urine for America's buck-hunters; Mike strands Maryland's shore to perform a necropsy on an ocean sentinel to determine its cause of death

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  S11E07 Manhole Rehab / Clock Caretaker

  January 29 · 60min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Mike Rowe descends into the depths of an aging manhole, coating it with a polyurea liner to extend its warranty in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Mike joins an horologist and a priest to set the time right as he restores a historic clocktower.

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  S11E08 Beaver Relocator / Slime Master

  February 5 · 60min find the promo

  Show synopsis

  Mike Rowe goes to the mountains in Utah and gives a dam to a couple nuisance beavers causing havoc for municipalities; Mike gets a little sticky while working with a special effects artist at a glue factory in LA.