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Season 1 – Dirty Jobs

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Mike Rowe apprentices himself to people who perform dangerous or disgusting jobs, ranging from rattlesnake catcher and zoo cleaner to road-kill collector. Mike performs difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the job's current employees. In each episode, a worker or team of workers take on Rowe as a fully involved assistant for a typical work day, working hard to complete every task as best he can despite discomfort, hazards, or repulsive situations. Nearly every job is even more difficult than he expects.

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Pam Gelman Common Sense Media 01/24/2020
3/5
Young kids may enjoy watching Rowe dive for golf balls in alligator-infested waters, but with its adult humor, Dirty Jobs is better for older tweens and up. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Mike Rowe

Host

Craig Piligian

Executive Producer

Edward Barbini

Executive Producer

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Nov 7, 2003 Bat Cave Scavenger Visiting a cave where bat guano is gathered for fertilizer; woman collects fruit bats in her back room; pro baseball's dirty little secret. Details Episode 2 Aired Nov 14, 2003 Worm Dung Farmer Mike takes a crack at catfish noodling; cleaning septic tanks; going farming for worm-manure as a fertilizer. Details Episode 3 Aired Nov 21, 2003 Roadkill Cleaners Diving into alligator-infested waters to look for lost golf balls; keeping highways free of roadkill. Host: Mike Rowe. Details Episode 4 Aired Jul 26, 2005 Chinatown Garbage Collector Mike plays the role of garbage collector on the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown, going up and down steep staircases with tons of garbage. Details Episode 5 Aired Aug 2, 2005 Sewer Inspector San Francisco sewer inspector; Brooklyn toilet explodes from a sewer backup; demolition work with a deconstruction crew. Details Episode 6 Aired Aug 9, 2005 Pig Farmer Mike gets the whole pig farming experience after feeding, cleaning and artificially inseminating pigs; helping the Gum Busters clean gum off NYC sidewalks; cleaning up after pigeons. Details Episode 7 Aired Aug 16, 2005 Chick Sexer Mike Rowe learns the importance of separating the male and female baby chicks at the Murray McMurray Hatchery. Details Episode 8 Aired Aug 23, 2005 Vexcon Enter Billy the Exterminator as Mike joins exterminators in their war against rats and bugs; shelling crabs after crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay; making horseshoes out of raw steel and trying his hand at shoeing a horse. Details Episode 9 Aired Aug 30, 2005 Sludge Cleaner Mike shapes surfboards with master shaper Matt Barker; goes underground to learn how to recycle gunky grime, diving into a greasy pit of sludge with an environmental company. Details Episode 10 Aired Sep 27, 2005 Hot Tar Roofer Mike learns how to melt down chunks of black tar for the purpose of fixing a church rooftop; learning how to move a house by tunneling under a 60-ton house, before lifting it up and placing it on large wheels. Details Episode 11 Aired Oct 4, 2005 Ostrich Farmer Working on a Hawaiian coffee plantation; nursing an injured sea-lion pup; ostrich farming in the California desert. Details Episode 12 Aired Oct 11, 2005 Cheese Maker Vermont cheese-makers show how they make their world-famous products; Zoo keeping at the San Francisco Zoo; volcanic ash mud baths. Details Episode 13 Aired Oct 18, 2005 Shrimper Climbing aboard a shrimp boat to determine the shrimping season; America's largest swamp for crawfish catching; tire recycling. Details Episode 14 Aired Oct 25, 2005 Bio-Diesel-Man Mike does the work of a cobb home builder, evicts a swarm of angry bees hidden inside a church, greases it up at a Mexican restaurant and converts cooking oil into bio-fuel. Details Episode 15 Aired Nov 1, 2005 Micro Algae Man Mike prepares special outfits with a pet groomer; Hawaiian pharmaceutical plant grows green algae; getting dirty at charcoal factory. Details Episode 16 Aired Nov 8, 2005 Chimney Sweeper Getting schooled at the Chimney Sweeping Safety Institute.;diving into freezing water for sunken logs in Canada for high-end furniture; scrap metal recycling. Details

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Season Info

Executive Producer
Craig Piligian, Edward Barbini
Network
Discovery Channel
Rating
TV-14
Genre
Reality
Original Language
English
Release Date
Nov 7, 2003