Overview

• The 80-year-old actor details the long-hidden tensions in a new interview with The Telegraph that outlets republished this week.
• Shaw says the trouble began on The New Avengers in 1977, alleging Collins behaved arrogantly and boasted about his physical prowess.
• He recalls warning the casting director he could not work with Collins, who then told him to “f*** off” on the first day of The Professionals, setting up four strained years.
• Shaw describes the experience of working together as “truly, truly horrible,” before the pair later repaired their relationship about a decade after the show ended.
• Collins died of cancer in 2013 at age 67, and Shaw is currently starring as Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons in London.