Dirty Jobs

Mike and his crew jump in an RV and set off on a road trip. Along the way they reminisce about working classic American infrastructure jobs.

Driving out to an ostrich farm in search of eggs, Mike Rowe and his crew reminisce about classic animal-related jobs they worked in the past.

Mike Rowe and his crew take a drive in search of a cold beer and reminisce about classic jobs from their past featuring innovators and problem solvers.

Mike heads to an exotic animal ranch in Texas, where he must tranquilise and transport two endangered deer for a breeding programme - how tough can it be?

At the exotic animal range in Texas, Mike is bitten by lemurs and walloped by a wallaby. Will he fare better when he tries to trim a bearcat's claws?

Mike is on the run from a pack of bloodhounds in training - will they track him down? Plus, in the Florida Everglades, he learns how to combat non-native species.

Mike maintains a tenpin bowling lane. Plus, when a fan requests to see more of cameraman Doug, Mike obliges with some footage of him wading through shark poo.

Mike is in for some hair-raising adventures, waxing his old friend Barsky at a Michigan day spa, and learning how to spin yarn old school style in Ohio.

Mike is in Mississippi to install a lightning rod system on the roof of a house, but as temperatures hit 120 degrees, will he be able to keep his cool?

Mike's making meat gel at the Mandalay Bay Casino - but will they let him feed the fish? Plus, find out how the sea lamprey population is controlled.

Mike joins university students examining pig carcasses for maggots and other bugs to establish time of death. But will he be able to stomach their studies?

Mike is examining racehorses' fresh dung samples at the Kentucky Equine Research Facility - how do the pH levels affect their speed on the track?

Mike is in San Francisco to find out why hawks are employed at the dump to keep seagulls at bay, and to join mobile butchers on their rounds.

Mike Rowe climbs date palms with the pollinators guaranteeing a good crop of fruit, cuts granite, and tries his luck at the gun range.

Mike is in Nebraska paving roads and is amazed by the complexities of laying asphalt. Plus, it's time to dip into the mailbag and answer more viewer enquiries.

Mike lugs molasses, scours copper and hauls hoses as he learns to brew rum at the Newport Distillery. Will he have time to enjoy a taste test too?

Mike Rowe is working at 9300ft to replace electricity pylons in Wyoming.

In Delaware, Mike Rowe makes scrapple, a local pig liver delicacy. Plus, find out the snappy secrets of a very special shoeshine.

Mike is in Maine to harvest blueberries and join in the ultimate pie bake-off. Plus, is it possible to create a jelly bean that tastes like his work boots?

Mike joins a father and son team to harvest sponges at sea; before heading off to an abandoned mine where he battles with a metal fence post - has he met his match?

Mike cleans the fish grinder on a processing boat in the Bering Sea. Plus, at the Rapid River Mill, Mike has to peel wood - but are the saws making him nervous?

In Louisiana Mike Rowe discovers he can't keep up with the crawfish pickers. Plus, how do termite researchers find and remove the destructive creepy crawlies?

Mike reflects on the jobs that had him wriggling into tight spaces. And, he checks in with hard-working people who work these jobs every day.

Mike Rowe joins fishermen in Georgia as they harvest jellyfish for food. Then he helps install epoxy flooring at a restaurant in time for dinner.

Mike learns how to build a tugboat in Alabama. Then he climbs to the top of a dirty water tower in Mississippi, to clean inside the tank.

Mike vacuums rocks off an industrial roof. He then travels to the Black Hills to carve the largest monument in the world: Crazy Horse.

Mike trains as a trauma surgeon learning under simulated battlefield conditions. He then helps to control iguanas on the Florida coast.

Mike works his hardest construction job yet. He helps a team of rodbusters, who carry 2 tons of reinforced steel each for overpass construction.

Mike cleans grime off an escalator. Then, he and a zookeeper venture into the Arizona desert at night to round up neurotoxic stinging scorpions.

Mike joins a pool fixer in West Palm Beach, Florida, to clean the dirtiest pool in America. In Orlando, he recycles dirty hotel soap.

Mike Rowe preserves infrastructure as he submerges in a murky Florida river to pour concrete jackets around crumbling bridge pilings.

Mike Rowe shows us where our food comes from, harvesting caviar from the muddy Mississippi River. Later, Mike brings his parents to work.

Mike cleans an asphalt filtration system in North Carolina. In Colorado, he gets his dirtiest yet, as he pyrolyzes wood into fertiliser.

Mike Rowe descends into the depths of an aging manhole in Tennessee. Then, Mike joins an horologist and a priest as he restores a historic clocktower.

Mike helps fix a clowder of feral cats at a neuter facility. Plus, he feels the burn when he meets the inventor of the hottest pepper in the world.

Mike wades knee-deep in diarrhoea as he farms deer urine for hunters. On Maryland's shoreline, he performs a necropsy for science.

Mike Rowe gives a dam to nuisance beavers causing havoc for municipalities. Mike gets sticky in the process of fulfilling a lifelong dream.