• Air date: 01 Jan '22 6 episodes
      Dirty Jobs is a program on the Discovery Channel, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television, in which host Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the typical employees. The show premiered with two pilot episodes in November 2003. It returned as a series on July 26, 2005, running for 8 seasons until September 12, 2012. The show's setting was refocused in Australia for the eighth season, advertised as Dirty Jobs Down Under. There is also a European edition of the show, hosted by Danish former goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel. On November 21, 2012, Mike Rowe announced that Discovery Channel had cancelled Dirty Jobs.
  • List of Episodes (6)
    • 1. Rodbuster / Galvanizer

      02 Jan '22
      Mike installs rebar with a team of rodbusters, then he galvanizes steel.
    • 2. Jellyballer / Epoxy Installer

      09 Jan '22
      Mike Rowe joins a fourth-generation fisherman's crew in Georgia as they harvest cannonball Jellyfish for food, a trade known as Jellyballing. Then Mike helps a father-son team install epoxy flooring at a restaurant in time for the dinner rush.
    • 3. Tugboat Fitter / Water Tower

      16 Jan '22
      Mike visits a ship-building community in Coden, Ala., to learn the ins-and-outs of building a tugboat; he makes a long climb to the top of a dirty water tower in Magee, Miss., to clean inside the tank.
    • 4. Rock Sucker / Mountain Carver

      23 Jan '22
      Mike sucks rocks off an industrial roof with a massive vacuum. He then travels to the Black Hills to carve the largest monument in the world: Crazy Horse. Both stories involve several generations working together to pass on their life's ambitions.
    • 5. Escalator Maintainer / Scorpion Sweeper

      30 Jan '22
      Mike Rowe crams into a hockey arena's escalator where he scrapes and cleans a special kind of shmutz from the bottom. Then, he and a zoo keeper venture into the hot, treacherous Arizona desert at night to round up neurotoxic stinging scorpions.
    • 6. Combat Surgeon / Iguana Hunter

      06 Feb '22
      Mike Rowe trains as a trauma surgeon using hyper-realistic scenarios and specialized equipment to learn under simulated battlefield conditions. He then controls an invasive mess of iguanas which are posing health risks to humans on the Florida coast.