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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S04E01 Big Animal Vet
January 8 · 60min find the promo
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Mike Rowe gets dirty at a famous barbeque joint, joins forces with a big animal veterinarian and finds himself deep in a New Jersey sludge.
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S04E02 Steel Mill Worker
January 15 · 42min find the promo
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Mike Rowe gets dirty in St. Louis as he works with a river barge demolition team and then melts down the scrap steel into molten metal.
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S04E03 Cave Biologist
January 22 · 42min find the promo
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Mike Rowe works with a cave biologist and then braves the high seas in search of slime eels.
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S04E04 Buoy Cleaner
January 29 · 42min find the promo
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Mike Rowe gets dirty in Oregon making shingles and then jumps on a Coast Guard ship to clean dirty buoys.
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S04E05 Cranberry Farmer
February 5 · 42min find the promo
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Mike Rowe gets dirty making handmade bricks in South Carolina. He then masters the art of cranberry farming in Oregon.
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S04E06 Mud Mineral Excavator
February 12 · 42min find the promo
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Mike Rowe gets dirty in Death Valley, CA preparing for a gem and mineral show. He then helps save injured birds from a nearby salt lake. Finally, he gets dirty working at a rice plantation in South Carolina.
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S04E07 Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple
April 14 · 42min find the promo
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Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty with some of the dirtiest jobs in New York City. First Mike climbs to the top of a giant building to build a water tower and then he masters the art of elevator repair.
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S04E08 Floating Fish Factory
April 21 · 42min find the promo
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Mike travels to Alaska for an adventure aboard a fish processing ship.
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S04E09 Dairy Cow Midwife
April 28 · 42min find the promo
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Inside an Indiana dairy farm, Mike learns how to milk a cow and use a blow torch to clean her udders. Then, Mike gets the inside scoop on how to inseminate a cow. Finally, he gets an up-close look at fatherhood as he helps deliver baby calves.
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S04E10 Aerial Tram Greaser
May 5 · 42min find the promo
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Mike heads to the site of a future California neighborhood where he learns that there's more to erosion control than one might think. Then Mike gets a bird's eye view of Palm Springs as he helps maintain and repair the tram 8,500 feet above the city.
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S04E11 Turkey Inseminator
May 12 · 42min find the promo
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Making a home energy efficient by improving insulation, turkey artificial insemination, viewer mail, car crusher
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S04E12 Ice Salvage Crew
May 19 · 42min find the promo
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Mike gets dirty in Alaska as he helps protect the environment by cleaning up an oil spill. He then travels to Minnesota where he works to pull a car out of a lake that has fallen through the ice.
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S04E13 Wind Farm Technician
June 2 · 42min find the promo
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Mike heads to an Oklahoma wind farm and learns that going green sometimes means you've got to get brown first. Then he heads to Kentucky to clean out a sinkhole that some have unfortunately turned into a garbage dump.
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S04E14 Animal Barber
June 9 · 42min find the promo
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Mike first visits Terressentials where natural organic hair care products are made out of mud. He then returns to Montana to do some more work with big animal vet Charlene Esch. Finally, Mike joins forces with the yak and bison rancher who put him to work in his 150th Dirty Job.
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S04E15 Brown Before Green
June 16 · 60min find the promo
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Mike looks back on several of the Dirty Jobs that help to clean up the environment. From geothermal drilling, to wood and tire salvage, to building cobb homes, one thing seemed constant: in order to be green, you usually have to get brown first.
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S04E16 Tar Rigger
October 7 · 42min find the promo
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Mike hooks up with the tar rigging crew on the oldest active merchant ship in the world, the Star of India in San Diego. Then, Mike looks back at some of the dirtiest tools he's used, all which make life simpler for the rest of us.
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S04E17 Dirty Chip Maker
October 14 · 42min find the promo
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Mike heads to the Dirty Potato Chips factory and learns how potato chips are made and what it takes to keep the machines used to make them clean and in working order. Then it?s off to Rifle, CO where Mike attempts to clean a "monster" hidden underground.
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S04E18 Sheep Castrator
October 21 · 42min find the promo
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Mike helps saw down a giant concrete wall at an auto dealership in order to make way for a new wash bay. Then he heads to a sheep farm where he tries shearing and castrating a sheep and is treated to a pate of Rocky Mountain Oysters.
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S04E19 Leech Trapper
October 28 · 42min find the promo
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Mike teams up with the boys from Bartos Bait & Fish to catch leeches that will later be sold for fish bait. Then it's off to the Green Tripe factory in Hollister, CA where Mike helps make BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) for dogs.
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S04E20 Dirty Presidents
November 4 · 60min find the promo
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Mike takes a look at what dirty jobs past presidents once performed. This Dirty Jobs Extravaganza will leave us all looking at the country in a new way.
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S04E21 Mannequin Factory
November 11 · 42min find the promo
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Mike helps break down some homes at the Windsorland Mobile Home Park to make room for a new shopping center. Next, he heads to Patina-V where he learns the art involved in creating a mannequin.
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S04E22 Egg Farm
November 18 · 42min find the promo
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Mike visits a Chicken Farm to see how eggs make it to the store. There, he finds out that 1.4 million chickens equal a lot of poo, which he gets the chance to clean. Later, Mike learns how dirty dirt becomes clean dirt as he sterilizes soil in Oklahoma.
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S04E23 Vellum Maker
November 25 · 42min find the promo
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Mike travels to Yakama, Washington to harvest hops, the main ingredient in beer. From there Mike goes to the Hudson Valley where he turns animal hides in to paper.
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S04E24 Maggot Farmer
December 2 · 42min find the promo
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Mike moves a giant cactus in Arizona and then helps raise maggots on a farm in Idaho.
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S04E25 Gourd Maker
December 9 · 42min find the promo
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Mike Rowe cleans out a Connecticut lake and then turns gourds into artwork in Pennsylvania.
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S04E26 Brown Before Green 2
December 16 · 60min find the promo
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Mike takes a look back at some of his former coworkers who should be role models for the green movement.