A talking dog, a ghost mom, and a mechanic daughter who'd rather fix cars than find a husband—British TV at its weirdest finest.
Season 2 • Episode 10
LatestMo and Rita clash over her close relationship with Trevor, Dave has a new and bizarre future for the garage, and Marley Bob has devious plans to wreak havoc.
Grease Monkeys is a BBC comedy-drama created by Harwant Bains, broadcast for two 10-episode series from 2003 to 2004. Grand Trunk Garage is owned by patriarch Mo, who spends most of his time worrying about daughter Rita, an ace mechanic more obsessed with auto than fashion, makeup or finding a nice boy to settle down with. Mo's son Dave—a sexually irrepressible, irresponsible minor criminal—runs the sales side of the business... mostly into the ground. Mo also has to contend with the ghost of his dead wife and a talking dog. And this is only the family — wait til you meet the friends!
Acting
Archie Panjabi before her Emmy win—Rita's dry wit is everything.
Writing
Harwant Bains' specific voice: authentic, messy, hilarious.
Creator
Harwant Bains
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of few early 2000s British series centering British South Asian working-class life without poverty tourism—Grease Monkeys treated Grand Trunk Garage as simply a place where people lived.
The show vanished almost completely after airing—no official DVD release, barely any streaming presence, making it a genuine lost gem of BBC Three's experimental era.
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