Dirty Jobs

Mike Rowe tackles dirt, grime and some other not-so-nice substances. He visits a cave where bat guano is collected for fertilizer, discovers the dirty secret behind major league baseball and takes a close look at seafood at a fish factory.

Host and everyman Mike Rowe scours the bottom of a creek to find the granddaddy of all catfish. He braves the underground and under-appreciated world of septic tank cleaners and checks out a farm that specializes in worm droppings.

Mike Rowe dives into gator-infested waters to score some lost golf balls. Then he assists in the creation of some top-racing horses and works with the professionals who keep the roads free of roadkill.

Mike Rowe assumes the responsibilities of a garbage collector in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Mike Rowe steps into the shoes of a sewer inspector and works in a deconstruction crew.

Mike Rowe feeds and cleans up after hundreds of pigs, then cleans gum off the streets of New York.

Mike Rowe sorts boy chicks from girl chicks at the Murray McMurray Hatchery.

Mike Rowe joins exterminators in their war against rats and bugs, and learns how to shell crabs.

Mike Rowe goes into a pit of sludge with an environmental company that recycles the gunky grime.

Mike Rowe mops hot tar on a church rooftop and learns how to move a house down the street.

Join Mike Rowe as he rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty on a Hawaiian coffee bean plantation; as he learns how to nurse an injured sea lion pup back to health; and as he works as an ostrich farmer in the California desert.

Mike Rowe works as a zookeeper, learns how to make cheese and mixes volcanic-ash mud baths.

Mike Rowe climbs aboard a shrimp boat and teams up with a man who catches crawfish for a living.

Mike Rowe recovers grease and learns to convert cooking oil into a gasoline alternative.

Mike Rowe works at a Hawaiian pharmaceutical plant that specializes in growing green algae.

Mike Rowe learns the tricks of the trade at the Chimney Sweeping Safety Institute.

Mike lends a helping hand at a Colorado marble quarry and then collects owl vomit.

Mike examines the short lives of turkeys then it's off to a potato farm. Mike also removes sewage from a water treatment plant as well.

Mike visits one of the dirtiest places on earth, a sugar mill. Firefighters teach Mike how to light a building on fire, put it out and then he visits a menacing alligator farm.

Mixing horse manure and soiled straw to make mushrooms, cleaning rat-infested storm drains in Los Angeles, and making shower drains in Erie, PA, it's a Dirty Job!

Mike reunites with a catfish noodler for some backbreaking plumbing and drills for oil.

Mike wages war against millions of termites that have attacked a local church.

Mike joins forces with a Las Vegas pig farmer with an ingenious way to recycle leftovers.

Mike Rowe faces his fear of parades when he works to dismantle floats from the Rose Parade.