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Her career break came with the early 1960s sitcom Marriage Lines starring opposite Richard Briers.

In addition to Fawlty Towers, she has had roles in BBC Radio 4 sitcoms, notably After Henry, Smelling of Roses and Ladies of Letters ; on television she starred in the London Weekend Television / Channel 4 series Mapp & Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson.

She played Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution.

In 1973, Scales teamed with Ronnie Barker in the ( original ) one-off Meat, which aired as One Man's Meat as part of a series called Seven of One, also for the BBC.

Her film appearances also include The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne ( 1987 ), Stiff Upper Lips ( 1997 ), Howards End ( 1992 ), and BBC Theatre Night in Joe Orton's farce What the Butler Saw ( 1987 ) playing Mrs Prentice, where the cast included husband Timothy West with Dinsdale Landen and Tessa Peake-Jones, as well as a cameo in The Boys From Brazil ( 1978 ).