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8 Episodes 2005 - 2005
Episode 1
It's time to get low down and dirty Stateside as the filth-focused series meets the unsung heroes of the Big Apple who keep the streets clean, the restaurants healthy and the five boroughs free of rats and roaches.
Episode 2
The Bronx breeds tough rats - can health inspector Robert Champion live up to his name? Food inspector Gifty closes a curry house, crime-scene cleaner Ron has gruesome messes to deal with and sanitation officer Gayle fines litterbugs.
Episode 3
When a woman's flat resembles a giant litter box, animal warden Mike Pastore has to take her cats away. But can he catch them? Plus the hunt in stinking rubbish for a chequebook.
Episode 4
Master of disaster Ron Alford must clean an apartment for a blind singer before her husband gets home from hospital. In Harlem, rat-catcher George is more afraid of the rats than they are of him. And in Brooklyn, Gail fearlessly pursues anyone who litters the sidewalk. Arthur Smith narrates.
Episode 5
It's time once again to get low down and dirty Stateside as the filth-focused series meets the unsung heroes of the Big Apple who keep the streets clean, the restaurants healthy and the five boroughs free of rats and roaches.
Episode 6
Cleaning up after a murder and a suicide is a tough job for crime scene expert Ron Godspodowski, especially in 100-degree heat. Rat-catchers George and Charlotte wage war on vermin, and in the Bronx Mike Pastore has to deal with some very scary dogs.
Episode 7
Rat droppings discovered beneath the sushi bar could spell closure for a fashionable restaurant in Manhattan's financial district. Meanwhile, a garbage dumpster comes under investigation as the Big Apple's toxic cops search for radioactive waste.
Episode 8
With no family or money to pay for his burial, the body of a man has been held in the morgue for over a month. The corpse is rescued from fridge purgatory by a kind-hearted funeral director, but then confusion over the burial leads to a delay in the searing heat of July.