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Stuck in a dead-end job? Daydreaming about a new career? Combed through the classifieds lately looking for your next calling?
If so, take a look at what Discovery Channel is offering:Road Kill Collector: Must be able to work long hours braving oncoming traffic while picking up all manner of smelly dead creatures. Benefits include working outdoors.Zoo Cage Cleaner: Performs necessary health-giving service for animals inhabiting the city zoo. Requires ability to tolerate large volumes of animal excrement while avoiding the occasional grumpy gorilla.
This summer, Discovery Channel goes to work with the unsung American laborers who make their living doing the most unthinkable, yet vital vocations in DIRTY JOBS. This world premiere original series begins Tuesday, July 26, 2005 at 9 p.m. (ET/PT).
Each week, our brave host and apprentice Mike Rowe introduces viewers to a hardworking group of men and women who overcome fear, danger and sometimes stench to accomplish their daily tasks. With his hands-on approach, Rowe assumes the duties of the jobs in question working alongside rattlesnake catchers, fish processors, bee removers and other professionals performing the vital yet outlandish occupations that simply must get done. A tremendously good sport, Rowe knows that whether it’s serving greasy slop to pigs in Iowa, or picking up five-day-old road kill and transporting it to a crematorium, it’s all part of an honest day’s work.
At the end of each enlightening, horrifying and hilarious episode, viewers are left with an appreciation for hardworking people, and they’ll know it takes to tackle tough jobs.
DIRTY JOBS is produced by Pilgrim Film & Television; Craig Piligian is the executive producer. For the Discovery Channel, Gena McCarthy is the executive producer.
Discovery Channel is the United States’ largest cable television network, serving 90.2 million households across the nation with the finest in informative entertainment. Discovery Networks, U.S., a unit of Discovery Communications, Inc., operates and manages Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery HD Theater, Discovery Kids Channel, Discovery Times Channel, The Science Channel, Discovery Home Channel, Military Channel, Discovery en Espa

An old-fashioned stone ground corn mill; Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic Pere David's deer.

An old-fashioned stone ground corn mill; Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic Pere David's deer.

An old-fashioned stone ground corn mill; Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic Pere David's deer.

An old-fashioned stone ground corn mill; Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic Pere David's deer.

An old-fashioned stone ground corn mill; Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic Pere David's deer.

An old-fashioned stone ground corn mill; Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic Pere David's deer.

An old-fashioned stone ground corn mill; Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic Pere David's deer.

An old-fashioned stone ground corn mill; Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic Pere David's deer.

An old-fashioned stone ground corn mill; Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic Pere David's deer.

Mike tries paint bulking in San Francisco and makes maple syrup the old-fashioned way in Pennsylvania.

Mike visits Florida, where he harvests clams at the Alligator Harbor Aquatic Preserve and tries out worm-grunting in the Apalachicola National Forest.

Mike learns what it takes to be a specialty fireworks technician in Addison, Pa. Also: a cow with a hole in its stomach is examined at Arkansas State University.

Mike Rowe makes "dirt shirts" in Hawaii and marbles in Reno, Ohio.

Mike recalls hazardous jobs and makes a case for safety and personal responsibility.

Mike researches dung beetles in Jonesboro, Ark., and he tries to make glass art in Williamstown, W. Va.

Mike Rowe heads to a unique dairy farm in Ramona, Calif., where he learns how to milk, care for and breed dromedary camels.

Mike catches, measures, and weighs alligator snapping turtles in Dota Creek, AR, then travels to San Francisco, CA to remove and crush toilets.

Mike cleans high-rise windows in Honolulu.

Mike counts common terns in Ohio, and seals off an abandoned mine shaft in northern California.

Mike first gets dirty at a famous barbeque joint in Georgia.
He then joins forces with a big animal veterinarian in Montana.
Finally, he finds himself deep in New Jersey sludge.

First Mike gets dirty harvesting kelp to feed abalone.
Then he is transformed into a real life zombie by special effects artist, Toby Sells.

After working at some of the dirtiest jobs in America, Mike decided it was time for him and his crew to be pampered as they look back on some of their favorite dirty jobs on board one of the Royal Carribean's most luxuri...

Mike Rowe goes on a wild goose chase - literally! After traveling to the tundra, Mike joins forces with a team of workers that round up a flock of wild geese with airplanes.

Mike Rowe gets dirty as he forages the swamps of Louisiana in search of alligator eggs - 90,000 of them to be exact. It's a very dirty job that's helping to preserve the population of the American alligator.

First Mike goes to the Mohave Desert in California to visit a fish hatchery.
He then gets dirty as he braves the untamed world of Vomit Island in the middle of Lake Erie. Mike's mission is to help band and count n...

Mike Rowe and the Dirty Jobs crew travel to Michigan to work with the Mackinac Bridge Authority on one of the world's largest suspension bridges.
Later, he goes to Florida where he gets to work on the space shuttl...

Mike goes to Georgia to learn how to make artistic jugs.
He then joins Richard Meyer and his sons in upstate New York to learn the ancient trade of tanning leather.

Mike goes to Texas and works at a snake farm learning how to raise some of the biggest and most dangerous snakes in the world.

Mike heads off to Texas to work with an outdoor advertising company.

Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty making giant bells at the McShane Bell Foundry.
He also gets down and dirty with the US Army Corps of Engineers as they conduct yearly maintenance on a hurricane barri...

Even though Mike has worked with concrete before in Dallas, he visits concrete workers in California today to learn the art of concrete stamping.
Then he goes to New Orleans to care for penguins.
Finally, M...

Mike celebrates his 100th dirty job as an Army mechanic and takes a look back at some of his past jobs. Also, Mike answers more viewer questions, shows even more bloopers and airs even more unaired footage.

Mike Rowe meets his match when he travels to South Africa to take care of monkeys that are being trained to go back into the wild.

Mike once again joins up with the guys of Taylor Shellfish Farms to help them harvest mussels.
Next he goes to Hawaii to learn about harvesting taro.
Finally, Mike joins a family of alpaca farmers and learn...

Mike Rowe first joins a crew at a rock quarry in the state of Washington and learns what it takes to make gravel from loading rocks to blowing up a side of a mountain.
Next, Mike gets hip deep in mud and muck work...

Mike helps a family in New Jersey demolish and recycle parts from 100 year old buildings on a college campus.
Then Mike enters the dangerous world of a coal miner in upstate Pennsylvania.

Mike concludes Shark Week with another hour of dirty jobs with the men and women who work with sharks. He starts off in Florida working alongside a taxidermist that makes replicas out of real sharks. He then heads to the...

Mike heads to Pennsylvania to work at Wertz Candies, a 75 year old candy store.
He then goes to California and works as a tire retreader.
Finally, Mike goes to McConnell AFB in Kansas to help repair the fue...

Mike first heads off to California to help tear down a dam so trout on the endangered species list can spawn.
He then goes to Pennsylvania to restore a church's pipe organ, a process that takes a total of eight ye...

Mike first goes to Sacramento, CA to help repair railroad tracks.
He then heads to Louisiana to learn how to make "boudin" (Cajun sausage). Mike then cuts and fries pig skins to make "cracklin" (pork rinds).
...

Mike first heads off to Las Vegas to work at an old fashioned printing press making lithographs of himself for the official Dirty Jobs poster.
He then goes to Lincoln, CA and helps make large scale terra cotta bui...

Mike first goes to a Pennsylvania coal processing plant and learns how to make coke, a carbonized coal used to make iron which in turn is used to make steel. He then goes to Washington state to an oyster shucking plant a...

It's a glitzy Las Vegas premiere as Mike visits the Lance Burton Theater to clean up the pens for Lance's show doves and geese.
Mike then gets really dirty by visiting a pig farmer and helping him process and tran...

Mike goes to Texas to help build a road by stepping into the shoes of a concrete spreader.
He then heads off to Louisiana and reunites with the Vexcon exterminators to rid a local church of termites.
Finall...

Mike begins the show by heading off to Oklahoma to track down his old catfish noodling friend for some plumbing lessons.
He then goes to Louisiana and works at a mud factory where they blend custom made mud used f...

Mike first heads off to California and finds out just how dirty mushroom farming can be by first making compost, then planting and picking mushrooms.
He then goes to Los Angeles to clean out storm drains filled wi...

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Mike heads off to Louisiana to be a sugar cane farmer and learns the difficult process in making sugar.
He then trains as a firefighter in Fremont, CA by burning down an abandoned home.
Finally, Mike return...

Mike first heads off to Texas and learns what it takes to be a turkey farmer.
He then goes to the Colorado Rockies and works as a potato farmer.
Finally, Mike gets neck deep in poo as he goes to San Francis...

Mike first travels to Colorado to help out at a marble quarry. He then goes to California to collect owl vomit which is sold to school children for research projects. Finally, Mike travels to Texas to palpate cows, a pro...

Mike Rowe revisits some of the absolute worst dirty jobs ever from the comfort of his San Francisco apartment. Mike talks about some of the behind the scenes from when he was a disaster cleanup worker, a septic tank tech...

Mike Rowe takes a look at some of the tools and machines which make doing dirty jobs a little easier. Mike talks about some of the behind the scenes machine action from when he was a house mover, a tire recycler, a demol...

Mike first goes to the Chimney Safety Institute of America in Plainfield, IN and learns how to be a certified chimney sweeper.
He then goes to Ontario, Canada to salvage underwater logs, which are then used to mak...

Mike begins by traveling to Palo Alto, CA to learn how to be a pet groomer.
He then goes to Hawaii to turn happy green algae into unhappy red algae to be used as antioxidant gelcaps for human consumption.
F...

Mike goes to Washington state and helps build a house out of cob, which is basically a combination of sand, clay, and straw.

He then heads to California and works alongside Dave the bee man to get rid of s...

Mike goes to South Carolina and learns about shrimping. He also helps study the shrimp population in order to find out when it's time to open the shrimping season. He then goes to the swamps of Louisiana to catch some cr...

Mike visits the San Francisco Zoo and learns what it's like to be a zookeeper. He then goes to a haunted cheese factory in Vermont and learns the art of patience. Finally, Mike learns how to be a volcano ash mud bath mix...

Mike visits a coffee plantation in Hawaii and learns about the long process in how to make coffee from picking the beans to roasting them. He then goes to Sausalito, CA to be a marine mammal rescuer and help rehabilitate...

Mike first heads off to Pasadena, California and discovers the difficult step by step process in patching up a roof. Then he goes to New Jersey and helps move a 60 ton, 225 year old house.

Mike first goes to California and learns the art and lifestyle of making surfboards.
He then goes to Oregon to harvest honey with a couple of bee keepers.
Finally, Mike goes to New York and works with a slu...

Mike first heads to Maryland to catch crabs using chicken necks and then learns how to process crab for the supermarket shelves.

Mike first heads off to Iowa and discovers the dirty process behind sexing male and female baby chicks.

Mike learns more about pig farming than he ever wanted to know as he feeds and cleans up after hundreds of pigs, plays with piglets, and artificially inseminates a sow.

Mike steps into the shoes of a sewer inspector in San Francisco and heads beneath the streets to examine the sewers. He then works with a disaster clean-up crew for a day and helps sanitize a basement after a sewer backs...

Mike assumes the responsibilities of a garbage collector as he takes to the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown at night, hauling away several tons of garbage. After carrying several tons of garbage down the narrow corr...

Mike goes to Florida and works with some divers who recover lost golf balls from water hazards to recycle them for resale. Mike then heads to Ohio to clean up roadkill off the highway which is then turned into compost. F...

First Mike goes catfish noodling in Oklahoma, which is basically catching catfish by sticking your hands in an underwater hole and grabbing whatever bites you. Mike then goes to Wisconsin and learns what it takes to be a...

Mike enters a bat cave in Texas in search of guano (bat excrement) to collect with a bat biologist. Later he helps to rehabilitate bats at a "bat hospital." Mike then goes in search of mud used to give grip to baseballs ...