Maine Cabin Masters

Mike Rowe braves shark-infested waters as he lends a hand to a shark biologist. Then he assumes the responsibilities of a garbage collector in San Francisco's Chinatown and takes on the role of an auto mechanic and engine stripper in New York.

Mike Rowe steps into the shoes of a sewer inspector in San Francisco and enlists a disaster clean-up crew after a Brooklyn toilet explodes from a sewer backup. He then joins up with a demolition company where he works as part of a deconstruction crew.

Mike Rowe steps into the shoes of a pig farmer where he faces the challenges of feeding and cleaning up after hundreds of dirty pigs. Then he helps clean up the streets of New York, one piece of gum at a time and removes pigeon poop from a hospital.

Mike Rowe sorts boy chicks from girl chicks at the Murray McMurray Hatchery. Then he joins forces with a Vermont brewing company to learn the art of making great-tasting beer and discovers how dirty catching and shucking oysters really is.

Mike Rowe joins exterminators in their war against rats and bugs. After crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay, Mike learns the fascinating art of shelling crabs. As a blacksmith farrier, Mike makes horseshoes out of raw steel and attempts to shoe a horse.

Mike Rowe works with surfboard-shaper Matt Barker and masters shaping a surfboard from Styrofoam. Then he steps into the shoes of a honey-bee farmer and goes into a greasy pit of sludge with an environmental company that recycles the gunky grime.

Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets filthy dirty as he tackles the profession of hot tar roofing a church rooftop that needs to be replaced. Then, Mike learns how to move a sixty-ton house down the street.

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

Mike Rowe gets a taste of what it's like to work as a zookeeper at the San Francisco Zoo. He then teams up with Vermont cheesemakers to learn how to turn four-thousand gallons of milk into world-famous cheese and mixes volcanic-ash mud baths.

Mike Rowe climbs aboard a shrimp boat to help determine this year's shrimping season. Then he goes to America's largest swamp to team up with a man who catches crawfish for a living, and finally, he sorts and organizes thousands of tires.

Mike Rowe steps into the shoes of a cob-home builder and teams up with the Bee man to evict a swarm of angry bees hidden inside a church building. He then recovers grease at a Mexican restaurant and learns to convert cooking oil into gasoline alternative.

Mike Rowe teams up with a pet groomer and is responsible for preparing special outfits prior to their departure. Then he works at a Hawaiian pharmaceutical plant that specializes in growing green algae and gets dirty at a charcoal factory.

Mike Rowe learns the tricks of the trade at the Chimney Sweeping Safety Institute. Then he travels to Canada to dive into the frigid water for logs that will be made into expensive furniture and is hired by a scrap metal recycling plant to sort cans.

Mike travels the country, lending a helping hand at the Colorado marble quarry. Then he collects owl vomit for science teachers around the world before wrangling cows and learning how to palpitate one to check for pregnancy.

Mike Rowe examines the short lives of turkeys as they make their way from farm to sandwich. Then, Mike heads to a farm to dig in the dirt for colorful taters that will revolutionize fries and works at a sewage treatment plant.

Mike visits one of the dirtiest places on Earth, a sugar mill. Then the firefighters teach Mike how to light a building on fire, put it out and then do the real dirty work -- overhauling, and Mike visits a menacing alligator farm.

Mike Rowe mixes horse manure and soiled straw to make mushrooms, cleans rat-infested storm drains in Los Angeles and makes shower drains in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Mike reunites with a catfish noodler for some backbreaking plumbing. Then he blends specialty drilling-mud at a synthetic mud company and rolls his sleeves for more oil drilling with roughnecks.

Mike steps into the shoes of a concrete spreader for some curbside and sidewalk foundation. Then he reunites with an exterminator crew to wage war against millions of termites that have attacked a local church and chips concrete out of giant mixers.

Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty in Las Vegas as he goes behind the scenes of the world famous Lance Burton Magic Show. Then he joins forces with a Las Vegas pig farmer that has found an ingenious way to recycle leftovers.

Mike Rowe masters the art of turning coal into coke. Then he joins forces with a professional oyster shucker before facing his fear of parades when he is hired on at a company that is responsible for dismantling floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade.

Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty operating an antique printing press. Then, he joins forces with the largest terracotta manufacturer in the US and teams up with a group of garbage collectors converting trash into electricity.

Mike Rowe challenges his bosses to see if they have what it takes to get dirty. The two executive producers responsible for sending Mike out to the dirtiest jobs around the country are going to roll up their sleeves and attempt a dirty job of their own.

Mike Rowe helps keep trains on track, then links Boudin sausage, a southern delicacy that's no treat to make. Finally, he rolls up his sleeves to clean animal skulls and bones before they are put on display.

Mike finds himself waist deep in mud as he harvests clams in the cold waters of Puget Sound. Then he gets dirty to preserve the environment in the Santa Monica Mountains and helps restore a Philadelphia church's antique pipe organ.

Mike Rowe joins forces with the Air Force as he travels to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas, to clean the Stratotanker fuel tanks. He also learns to makes some messy candy and retread tires.

Mike Rowe gets dirty as he helps a group of New Jersey salvage experts tear apart a dormitory at an abandoned college. Then Rowe rolls up his sleeve and goes to work as a coal miner.

Mike Rowe joins a crew at a rock quarry, gets hip deep in mud and muck working with the hippo keepers at the Adventure Aquarium and addresses some bovine foot problems.

Mike Rowe joins a crew of filthy farmers on their job at Taylor Shellfish Farms, gets down and dirty in the tropics as he farms taro and finds out that animals don't like haircuts when he joins a family of alpaca farmers to shear their alpacas.

Mike Rowe meets his match when he travels to South Africa to train monkeys to run wild. These monkeys were once house pets, but are now outcasts, often abused and in need of helping hands to train them in the ways of the jungle.

Mike Rowe introduces his work with the United States Army. Mike shares stories from behind the scenes and answer viewer mail as he unites the US with the dirtiest jobs and funniest moments of the show.