The Persuaders!, a 1970s TV series starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis
Although credited as the composer of theme tunes such as Rising Damp, as a composer of library music, his pieces usually appear uncredited in films and TV programmes, for example The Full Monty, The Persuaders!, The Box.
After having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and enjoyed an appearance in the William Douglas-Home comedy "The Reluctant Peer" at the Duchess Theatre in 1964, she appeared in British TV adventure series of the 1960s such as The Saint, The Avengers, The Persuaders!.
Furst was regularly featured in UK television drama series of the 1960s and early 1970s with appearances in The Saint, The Champions, Doomwatch, The Persuaders!, and as the mad (and well remembered) Professor Zaroff in the Doctor Who story The Underwater Menace.
Other cult television appearances included roles in The Persuaders!, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), the Doctor Who story The Android Invasion, The Young Ones and Kinvig.
Later roles included Anna Sergeyevna in a 1971 adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, and appearances in shows like The Persuaders! and General Hospital, and had her own folk music programme on TV but Nicols was soon to give up acting; she married writer, Frederic Mullally and moved to Malta to concentrate on writing.
Like The Persuaders!, a similar series also produced by ITC that aired around the same time, The Protectors was shot on location at numerous "exotic" locations throughout Europe, such as Salzburg, Rome, Malta and Paris, giving the series a sixties "jet set" feel (it was also the first Anderson production to have such a luxury).