Brass Monkeys is an Australian television sitcom that was first broadcast in 1984 on the Seven Network.

Brass Monkeys is the story of a pretty female doctor who joins a group of men confined to the lonely isolation of an Australian Antarctic expedition station.

[1] The series was based on a television pilot titled Twelve Below, written by Reilly and Sattler.

[1][2] The pilot starred Ferrier as OIC, Robert Hughes as Noddy, Cornelia Frances as Dr Sally Newman, Colin McEwan as Nick and Jeff Ashby as Rex, aka, "the Ferret".

[4] Owing to exhaustion at having to write the scripts for this series, coupled with those of their previous series, writer Tony Sattler left RS Productions, the company operated by him and writing partner Gary Reilly, leaving Reilly to form his own company, Gary Reilly Productions, in 1984.