1. Big Animal Vet
Air date: 2008-01-08 · 60 min
Mike helps out at a BBQ restaurant and gets to help clean out the smoker. After that a trip to the farm to help out a big animal vet. For his last job Mike gets to help dig a tank out of the ground
Open episode 1 ↗2. Steel Mill Worker
Air date: 2008-01-15 · 60 min
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.
Open episode 2 ↗3. Cave Digger
Air date: 2008-01-22 · 60 min
Mike Rowe works with a cave biologist and then braves the high seas in search of slime eels.
Open episode 3 ↗4. Buoy Cleaner
Air date: 2008-01-29 · 60 min
Mike Rowe gets dirty in Oregon making shingles and then jumps on a Coast Guard ship to clean dirty buoys.
Open episode 4 ↗5. Cranberry Farmer
Air date: 2008-02-05 · 60 min
Mike Rowe gets dirty making handmade bricks in South Carolina. He then masters the art of cranberry farming in Oregon.
Open episode 5 ↗6. Mud Mineral Excavator
Air date: 2008-02-12 · 60 min
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.
Open episode 6 ↗7. Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple
Air date: 2008-04-14 · 60 min
Join Mike Rowe as he takes on some of the dirtiest jobs in New York City; he scales a skyscraper to build a water tower on the roof before trying his hand at lift repair.
Open episode 7 ↗8. Floating Fish Factory
Air date: 2008-04-21 · 60 min
Mike travels to Alaska for an adventure aboard a fish processing ship.
Open episode 8 ↗9. Dairy Cow Midwife
Air date: 2008-04-28 · 60 min
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.
Open episode 9 ↗10. Aerial Tram Greaser
Air date: 2008-05-05 · 60 min
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.
Open episode 10 ↗11. Turkey Inseminator
Air date: 2008-05-12 · 60 min
Making a home energy efficient by improving insulation, turkey artificial insemination, viewer mail, car crusher
Open episode 11 ↗12. Ice Salvage Crew
Air date: 2008-05-19 · 60 min
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.
Open episode 12 ↗13. Wind Farm Technician
Air date: 2008-06-02 · 60 min
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.
Open episode 13 ↗14. Animal Barber
Air date: 2008-06-09 · 60 min
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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