• Air date: 22 Dec '10 10 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 (10)
    • 1. Asphalt Paver

      22 Dec '10
      In Nebraska, Mike Rowe takes a shot at paving roads. Then, in reply to a mailbag question about his favorite animal, he recalls the time he crossed paths with a tiger crossbreed in Texas.
    • 2. Rum Distiller

      11 Jan '11
      Mike visits a distillery, where he turns molasses into rum, hauls hoses, scours copper and works with scalding liquid.
    • 3. Hair Fairy

      18 Jan '11
      Mike installs a metal power pole in Wyoming and later learns about how to remove lice from hair in San Francisco.
    • 4. Dirty Infrastructure

      25 Jan '11
      Mike takes a look at America's report card on its infrastructure and also salutes the workers who help preserve it.
    • 5. Scrapple Maker

      01 Feb '11
      Mike learns how to make a pig delicacy known as scrapple and later becomes a shoe doctor's assistant.
    • 6. Blueberry Connoisseur

      08 Feb '11
      Mike visits the Jelly Belly Candy Company to concoct a dirty boot flavored jelly bean based on his own sweaty, grimy, filthy pair of work boots. Then he travels to Maine to harvest blueberries and joins the "Pie Ladies" in a pie bakeoff.
    • 7. Sponge Diver

      15 Feb '11
      Mike heads to Tarpon Springs, Florida to help collect sponges off the sea floor. Then he answers viewer mail and recounts his struggle with a metal fence post at an abandoned mine.
    • 8. Cedar Log Peeler

      22 Feb '11
      Mike works on a fish processing boat in the Bering Sea and cleans out the fish grinder. Then he heads to the Rapid River Rustic Mill to lend a hand with debarking, peeling and processing wood for a cedar log cabin.
    • 9. Termite Researcher

      01 Mar '11
      Mike visits with long-time fans Marilyn and Carolyn Maedel to look at never-before-seen footage at a crawfish factory in Louisiana. Then, he experiences the many hands-on duties that come with being a termite researcher on Sapolo Island in Georgia.
    • 10. Dirty DNA

      08 Mar '11
      Revisit of jobs related to family with Mike visiting his parents: crab fisherman ("Vexcon"), maggot farmer ("Maggot Farmer"), leech trapping ("Leech Trapper"), candy maker ("Fuel Tank Cleaner"), coffee plantation ("Ostrich Farmer"), worm grunter ("Worm Grunter"), mealworm farm ("Cricket Farmer"), walnut harvester ("Goose Down Plucker"), bell maker ("Bell Maker"), raw meat dog food maker ("Leech Trapper"), goat milk soap maker ("Reef Ball Maker"), sponge diver ("Sponge Diver"), mobile butcher