Editing Prunella Scales (section)

===1990s and onwards===
For 10 years,<ref>{{cite web|title=Ad hoc: Tesco thinks again as Dotty takes her leave|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2891065/Ad-hoc-Tesco-thinks-again-as-Dotty-takes-her-leave.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2891065/Ad-hoc-Tesco-thinks-again-as-Dotty-takes-her-leave.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=9 January 2021|website=The Telegraph|date=27 July 2004 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> Scales appeared as "Dotty" Turnbull, together with [[Jane Horrocks]] as her character's daughter, Kate Neall, in advertisements for UK supermarket chain [[Tesco]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Tesco to resurrect 'Dotty' concept in major Christmas TV ad campaign|url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/tesco-resurrect-dotty-concept-major-christmas-tv-ad-campaign/1367487|access-date=9 January 2021|website=www.campaignlive.co.uk}}</ref> She played [[Queen Elizabeth II]] in [[Alan Bennett]]'s ''[[A Question of Attribution]]'' (1991).<ref name="bbcamerica.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows//blog/2012/06/happy-80th-birthday-prunella-scales |title=Happy 80th Birthday, Prunella Scales! – Anglophenia – BBC America |work=BBC America}}</ref>In 1996, Scales starred in the television film ''Lord of Misrule'', alongside [[Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]], [[Emily Mortimer]] and [[Stephen Moyer]]. The film was directed by Guy Jenkins and filming took place in [[Fowey]] in [[Cornwall]]. The same year, she appeared as [[Miss Bates]] in ''[[Emma (1996 TV film)|Emma]]'', a TV-movie adaptation of [[Jane Austen]]'s [[Emma (novel)|novel of the same name]]. In 1997, Scales starred in Chris Barfoot's [[science-fiction]] film [[Short film|short]] ''Phoenix'' which was first aired in 1999 by [[NBCUniversal]]'s [[Sci-Fi Channel]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spike.com/video-clips/kph5ki/phoenix |title=Phoenix |work=SPIKE |year=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref> Scales played The Client, an evil government minister funding inter-genetic time travel experiments. The same year, she played Minny Stinkler in the comedy film ''Mad Cows'', directed by [[Sara Sugarman]]. In 1993, Scales voiced Mrs Tiggy-Winkle in ''[[The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends]]''.

In 2000, Scales appeared in the film ''The Ghost of Greville Lodge'' as Sarah. The same year, she appeared as Eleanor Bunsall in ''[[Midsomer Murders]]''{{'}} "Beyond the Grave". In 2001, she appeared in two episodes of ''[[Silent Witness]]''{{'}} "Faith" as Mrs Parker. In 2003, she appeared as Hilda, "she who must be obeyed", wife of [[Rumpole of the Bailey|Horace Rumpole]], in four BBC Radio 4 plays, with Timothy West playing her fictional husband. Scales and West toured Australia at the same time in different productions. Scales appeared in a one-woman show called ''An Evening with [[Queen Victoria]]'', which also featured the tenor [[Ian Partridge]] singing songs written by [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]]. Scales has performed ''An Evening with Queen Victoria'' more than 400 times, in theatres around the world, over the course of 30 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ianpartridge.co.uk/victoria.html|title=An Evening with Queen Victoria|website=www.ianpartridge.co.uk}}</ref>

Scales voiced the speaking ("cawing") role of Magpie, the eponymous thief in a 2003 recording of [[Gioachino Rossini]]'s opera ''[[La gazza ladra]]'' (''The Thieving Magpie'').

In 2006, Scales appeared alongside [[Academy Award]] winners [[Vanessa Redgrave]] and [[Maximilian Schell]] in the mini-series ''[[The Shell Seekers (2006 film)|The Shell Seekers]]''.