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First Aired: July 26th, 2005
Status: Continuing
Genre: Reality
Network: Discovery
Summary: Host and everyman Mike Rowe gets the grimy scoop on downright nasty occupations.
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# of Episodes: 219
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Season 3
Episode 1: Bug Breeder
Air Date: January 9th, 2007
Summary: First Mike helps remove trees and tree stumps in California. Mike then gets himself dirty with some fainting goats in Tennessee. Then he vists a place that breeds exotic insects in New Orleans.
Episode 2: Poo Pot Maker
Air Date: January 16th, 2007
Summary: Mike first goes to northern California to count dead salmon. Mike opens up the mail bag and answers a viewer's question about the snake researcher segment. Just when Mike thought he had seen it all, he visits a cow farm in Connecticut that specializes in making gardening pots out of cow manure.
Episode 3: Mule Logger
Air Date: January 23rd, 2007
Summary: Mike joins forces with a master-cooper, or in laymen's terms, a barrel maker. Mike also teams up with some mule loggers.
Episode 4: Well Digger
Air Date: January 30th, 2007
Summary: Mike joins the Bowie BaySox team at Prince Georges Stadium in Maryland acting as a groundskeeper. Next he fixes boat moorings with a former Navy SEAL. He then joins Watson Water company dig deep through mud, rock, gravel, sand and water as they drill for heating and water in Tennessee. Also, Mike takes a dive into the mail bag.
Episode 5: Cave Digger
Air Date: February 20th, 2007
Summary: Mike helps dig tunnels that are used as underground wine caverns. Later he works behind the scenes with Southwest Airlines as a baggage handler. He also gets to work with the airport incinerator.
Episode 6: Salt Miner
Air Date: February 27th, 2007
Summary: Mike goes underground in Hutchinson, Kansas to learn about mining rock salt. This episode also focuses on the behind the scenes action in filming the show.
Episode 7: Wine Maker
Air Date: March 6th, 2007
Summary: Mike first heads off to Napa Valley to learn how to make wine. Mike then gets dirty at a Kansas Cattle Ranch learning about the cattle business.
Episode 8: Steam Ship Cleaner
Air Date: March 13rd, 2007
Summary: Mike heads off to San Diego to learn the dirty job of hydroseeding. He then reads a viewer's letter and shows us never before seen footage from a previous episode. Finally Mike gets dirty cleaning up a 100 year old steam yacht.
Episode 9: Billboard Installer
Air Date: June 26th, 2007
Summary: Mike heads off to Texas to work with an outdoor advertising company.
Episode 10: Snake Wrangler
Air Date: July 10th, 2007
Summary: Reptile handler
Episode 11: Leather Tanner
Air Date: July 17th, 2007
Summary: 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.
Episode 12: Bridge Painter
Air Date: August 7th, 2007
Summary: Mike Rowe and the Dirty Jobs crew travels to Michigan to work with the Mackinac Bridge Authority on one of the world's largest suspension bridges. Mike goes to great lengths, and heights, braving 50 mile per hour winds while helping paint the bridge.
Episode 13: Vomit Island Workers
Air Date: August 14th, 2007
Summary: Mike Rowe gets dirty as he braves the untamed world of Vomit Island, a place where few have ever been and even fewer would ever want to go. Mike's mission is to help band and count newly hatched herons on the poo covered island.
Episode 14: Alligator Egg Collector
Air Date: August 21st, 2007
Summary: 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.
Episode 15: Special Effects Artist
Air Date: October 30th, 2007
Summary: Mike exposes the fascinating secrets behind the dirty world of special effects. He explores this very strange world as he is transformed into a real life zombie by special effects artist, Toby Sells. Also, Mike gets dirty harvesting kelp.
Episode 16: Reef Ball Maker
Air Date: November 6th, 2007
Summary: Mike rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty in order to help create an artificial underwater reef. It's a dirty job that is helping to revitalize fish and coral populations in areas that have been devastated by pollution.
Episode 17: Exotic Animal Keeper
Air Date: November 13rd, 2007
Summary: Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty at a recycling center in San Francisco that requires their dump truck drivers to clean out the back of their dirty trucks after each shift. It's a dirty job that even Mike has a hard time completing.
Episode 18: Spray Insulation Technician
Air Date: November 27th, 2007
Summary: Mike Rowe gets dirty with a team of airport runway painters, examines dirty diapers for bad smells and then teams up with a group of spray insulation technicians that get dirty to keep our houses warm.
Episode 19: Dirty Innovators
Air Date: December 4th, 2007
Episode 20: Buoy Cleaner
Air Date: January 29th, 2008
Summary: Mike Rowe gets dirty in Oregon making shingles and then jumps on a Coast Guard ship to clean dirty buoys.
Episode 21: Cranberry Farmer
Air Date: February 5th, 2008
Summary: Mike Rowe gets dirty making handmade bricks in South Carolina. He then masters the art of cranberry farming in Oregon.
Episode 22: Mud Mineral Excavator
Air Date: February 12nd, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 23: Tight Spaces
Air Date: February 19th, 2008
Summary: Mike Rowe looks back at jobs involving tight spaces - stripping and painting inside of Mackinac Bridge tower ("Bridge Painter"), replacing pipe underneath house ("Plumber"), KC-135R Stratotanker fuel tank cleaner and boom operator ("Fuel Tank Cleaner"), Stamford hurricane barrier zinc anode changer ("Bell Maker"), storm drain cleaner ("Mushroom Farmer"), cleaning the inside of the boilers of the steam yacht Medea ("Steam Ship Cleaner")
Episode 24: Brown Plate Special
Air Date: February 26th, 2008
Summary: Mike Rowe Revisits jobs involving food - Coffee plantation ("Ostrich Farmer"); fish farmer ("Vomit Island Workers"); potato farmer ("Turkey Farmer"); oyster shucker ("Rose Parade Float Dismantler"); boudin sausage maker ("Skull Cleaner"); viewer mail asking about top 10 memorable tastes - ground crab shells ("Vexcon"), geoduck stomach ("Geoduck Farmer"), fish mash (marine mammal rescuer, "Ostrich Farmer"), termite insecticide ("Termite Controller"), tortilla chip from dirty kitchen ("Bio-Diesel Man"), mealworms ("Bat Cave Scavenger"), crawfish ("Shrimper"), cob ("Bio-Diesel Man"), mussels ("Alpaca Shearer"), animal bodily fluids ("Big Animal Vet"); candy maker ("Fuel Tank Cleaner")
Episode 25: Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple
Air Date: April 14th, 2008
Summary: Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty with some of the dirtiest jobs in New York City. First Mike climbs to the top of a giant building to build a water tower and then he masters the art of elevator repair.
Episode 26: Floating Fish Factory
Air Date: April 21st, 2008
Summary: Mike travels to Alaska for an adventure aboard a fish processing ship.
Episode 27: Dairy Cow Midwife
Air Date: April 28th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 28: Aerial Tram Greaser
Air Date: May 5th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 29: Turkey Inseminator
Air Date: May 12nd, 2008
Summary: Making a home energy efficient by improving insulation, turkey artificial insemination, viewer mail, car crusher
Episode 30: Ice Salvage Crew
Air Date: May 19th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 31: Wind Farm Technician
Air Date: June 2nd, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 32: Animal Barber
Air Date: June 9th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 33: Brown Before Green
Air Date: June 16th, 2008
Summary: Mike looks back on several of the Dirty Jobs that help to clean up the environment. From geothermal drilling, to wood and tire salvage, to building cobb homes, one thing seemed constant - in order to be green, you usually have to get brown first.
Episode 34: Greenland Shark Quest
Air Date: July 29th, 2008
Summary: In this special episode of Dirty Jobs Mike heads to the edge of the Arctic Circle, on the northeast side of Canada's Baffin Island in search of one of the most mysterious sharks known to man - the Greenland shark.
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