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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S03E01 Bug Breeder
January 9 · 60min find the promo
Show synopsis
First Mike helps remove trees and tree stumps in California. Mike then gets himself dirty with some fainting goats in Tennessee. Then he vists a place that breeds exotic insects in New Orleans.
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S03E02 Poo Pot Maker
January 16 · 60min find the promo
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Mike first goes to northern California to count dead salmon. Mike opens up the mail bag and answers a viewer's question about the snake researcher segment. Just when Mike thought he had seen it all, he visits a cow farm in Connecticut that specializes in making gardening pots out of cow manure.
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S03E03 Mule Logger
January 23 · 60min find the promo
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Mike joins forces with a master-cooper, or in laymen's terms, a barrel maker. Mike also teams up with some mule loggers.
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S03E04 Well Digger
January 30 · 60min find the promo
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Mike joins the Bowie BaySox team at Prince Georges Stadium in Maryland acting as a groundskeeper. Next he fixes boat moorings with a former Navy SEAL. He then joins Watson Water company dig deep through mud, rock, gravel, sand and water as they drill for heating and water in Tennessee. Also, Mike takes a dive into the mail bag.
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S03E05 Cave Digger
February 20 · 60min find the promo
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Mike helps dig tunnels that are used as underground wine caverns. Later he works behind the scenes with Southwest Airlines as a baggage handler. He also gets to work with the airport incinerator.
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S03E06 Salt Miner
February 27 · 60min find the promo
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Mike goes underground in Hutchinson, Kansas to learn about mining rock salt. This episode also focuses on the behind the scenes action in filming the show.
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S03E07 Wine Maker
March 6 · 60min find the promo
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Mike first heads off to Napa Valley to learn how to make wine. Mike then gets dirty at a Kansas Cattle Ranch learning about the cattle business.
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S03E08 Steam Ship Cleaner
March 13 · 60min find the promo
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Mike heads off to San Diego to learn the dirty job of hydroseeding. He then reads a viewer's letter and shows us never before seen footage from a previous episode. Finally Mike gets dirty cleaning up a 100 year old steam yacht.
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S03E09 Billboard Installer
June 26 · 60min find the promo
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Mike heads off to Texas to work with an outdoor advertising company.
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S03E11 Leather Tanner
July 17 · 60min find the promo
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Mike goes to Georgia to learn how to make artistic jugs. He then joins Richard Meyer and his sons in upstate New York to learn the ancient trade of tanning leather.
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S03E12 Bridge Painter
August 7 · 60min find the promo
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Mike Rowe and the Dirty Jobs crew travels to Michigan to work with the Mackinac Bridge Authority on one of the world's largest suspension bridges. Mike goes to great lengths, and heights, braving 50 mile per hour winds while helping paint the bridge.
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S03E13 Vomit Island Workers
August 14 · 60min find the promo
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Mike Rowe gets dirty as he braves the untamed world of Vomit Island, a place where few have ever been and even fewer would ever want to go. Mike's mission is to help band and count newly hatched herons on the poo covered island.
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S03E14 Alligator Egg Collector
August 21 · 60min find the promo
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Mike Rowe gets dirty as he forages the swamps of Louisiana in search of alligator eggs 90,000 of them to be exact. It's a very dirty job that's helping to preserve the population of the American alligator.
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S03E15 Special Effects Artist
October 30 · 60min find the promo
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Mike exposes the fascinating secrets behind the dirty world of special effects. He explores this very strange world as he is transformed into a real life zombie by special effects artist, Toby Sells. Also, Mike gets dirty harvesting kelp.
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S03E16 Reef Ball Maker
November 6 · 60min find the promo
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Mike rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty in order to help create an artificial underwater reef. It's a dirty job that is helping to revitalize fish and coral populations in areas that have been devastated by pollution.
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S03E17 Exotic Animal Keeper
November 13 · 60min find the promo
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Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty at a recycling center in San Francisco that requires their dump truck drivers to clean out the back of their dirty trucks after each shift. It's a dirty job that even Mike has a hard time completing.
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S03E18 Spray Insulation Technician
November 27 · 60min find the promo
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Mike Rowe gets dirty with a team of airport runway painters, examines dirty diapers for bad smells and then teams up with a group of spray insulation technicians that get dirty to keep our houses warm.
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S03E19 Dirty Innovators
December 4 · 60min find the promo