In her capacity as a popular British actress and sex symbol in the 1970s and 1980s, she also had guest appearances in episodes of The Sweeney, The Professionals, Hammer House of Horror and Return of the Saint. Her TV career started in the early 1970s with the Granada Television series Shabby Tiger. In films, Prunella has appeared with Sidney Poiter, Michael Caine and Patrick Allen in The Wilby Conspiracy, with Sean Connery in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again and with Tommy Lee Jones, Sting and Sean Bean in Stormy Monday.