Dirty Jobs
Part reunion, part road-trip, part look-back-special, and part “where-are-they-now,” this series highlights everything that made Dirty Jobs an “essential” franchise in the first place. The original Dirty Jobs crew travel together in a mini-RV and reminisce about all things dirty.
- 2005-2023
- 10 seasons
- Discovery Channel
- Reality
- TV-14
Part reunion, part road-trip, part look-back-special, and part “where-are-they-now,” this series highlights everything that made Dirty Jobs an “essential” franchise in the first place. The original Dirty Jobs crew travel together in a mini-RV and reminisce about all things dirty.
Season 10 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2022 - 2023
Episode 1
Pool Fixer/Hotel Soap Recycler
Sun, Dec 11, 2022
Mike heads to West Palm Beach, Florida to join a family business while they replace the vinyl liner in a swimming pool that has not been cleaned in 15 years. Then, Mike drives inland to Orlando, Florida, where he helps Clean The World recycle secondhand hotel soap that is distributed to people in need.
Episode 2
Feral Cat Fixer/Reaper Keeper
Sun, Dec 18, 2022
Mike Rowe helps cat ladies of northern Texas to fix a clowder of feral cats at a spay/neuter facility. Mike feels the burn as he processes peppers with the mad scientist inventor of the Carolina Reaper, the hottest pepper in the world.
Episode 3
Pile Jacketer/Concrete Cleaner
Sun, Jan 1, 2023
In a week full of broken promises, Mike performs two jobs he has sworn off forever: diving and concrete. For his first gig, Mike finds a dilapidated bridge near Pensacola, Florida. Meeting a group of divers who find solutions to such problems, he hops waist-deep into the mucky river with them to reinforce the crumbling infrastructure. The day's work should add another 40 years onto the bridge's life. On his second job, Mike meets a crew of concrete fanatics in Charlotte, North Carolina. These guys willingly jump into a pit full of concrete washout. Their work - separating the solids and revitalizing the water.
Episode 4
Caviar Harvester/Spice Maker
Sun, Jan 8, 2023
Mike goes for the waterways of America. First he heads to Clarksville, Missouri where he lends a hand onboard the Hillbilly Deluxe at catching shovelhead sturgeon to harvest Show-Me caviar. Part two of the episode has Mike at J.O. Spice Co. in Mike's hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Here Mike rectifies an OLD mistake as he blends Maryland's most popular crab seasoning.
Episode 5
Baghouse Cleaner/Biochar Maker
Sun, Jan 15, 2023
Mike finds himself in Charlotte, North Carolina, where there is a unique job at an asphalt plant. Mike joins the plant's crew for a Baghouse Party: cleaning out the the massive filtration system (baghouse) keeping employees and the environment safe. Mike then helps an entrepreneur in Berthoud, Colorado turn useless, beetle-eaten timber into a resource with an intensely high carbon count and many beneficial uses.
Episode 6
Deer Urine Farmer/Necropsy
Sun, Jan 22, 2023
In Anna, Illinois, Mike discovers feces from a new species as he collects and bottles the freshest farm-raised deer urine on the market sold to hunters looking to bag a buck. Near his hometown of Baltimore, in Oxford, Maryland, Mike dives elbow-deep into a recently deceased bottlenose dolphin as he assists in performing a necropsy to determine the cause of the creature's misfortune.
Episode 7
Manhole Rehab/Clock Caretaker
Sun, Jan 29, 2023
Traveling below Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Mike descends into an aging manhole, stops the sewage, and sprays a life extending coating on the walls. Then, just down the street from The Capitol in Washington DC, Mike repairs one of the oldest working clocks in the country at a prep school.
Episode 8
Beaver Relocator/Slime Master
Sun, Feb 5, 2023
Mike saves municipal infrastructure and positively affects the local ecosystems as he traps, treats and relocates urban nuisance beavers back into the mountains of Utah. In Santa Fey Springs, California, Mike meets the folks behind the slime, yes THAT slime, and gets gooey with glue as he enters the world behind Hollywood's special effects.
