Career: Collins' film debut came in 1951's Lady Godiva Rides Again. Later in the decade she moved to Hollywood to make more movies and US TV series, including Star Trek, The Man From UNCLE and Batman. She also starred in low-budget horrors such as Fear in the Night, and Tales That Witness Madness, and a series of famous adverts alongside Leonard Rossiter. The Stud and The Bitch - movie versions of her sister's novels - turned her into a sex symbol. She became an international star in 1981 thanks to glossy soap Dynasty. Since then she's starred in various TV movies and mini-series appeared on stage and turned to writing. She was awarded an OBE in 2007 for her lifetime contribution to the arts and her charity work and was made a Dame in the New Year's honours list.

Career: Bowles spent his early years in theatre before making his TV debut in 1959's Last Chronicle of Barsett. He had roles in such classic series as The Avengers, Danger Man and The Prisoner throughout the 1960s. He continued to work steadily in such shows as I, Claudius and Rumpole of the Bailey, but didn't become a star until appearing concurrently in two sitcoms in 1979: the BBC's To the Manor Born and ITV's Only When I Laugh. Since then he's appeared in The Bounder, Lytton's Diary (a series he created), Executive Stress and Perfect Scoundrels. His movies include Blowup and For the Love of Benji. In 2007 he returned along co-star Penelope Keith in a Christmas special of To the Manor Born. He also starred with Keith in 2010 at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in The Rivals. In 2011, he had a supporting role in the big-screen romantic comedy Love's Kitchen.