Reference: Aberdeen Evening Express, 12 February 1975

In the article below, Chris Douglas, who played Yan, the young man who sacrificed his life to save Arthur in "The Wood People", is quoted as claiming that his role involved swimming naked across a river.

Perhaps the "Herbs ... moss and fungus" in the concoction that Yan threw on the fire included some psychedelic ingredients! Or maybe the camera crew decided to have a joke at Mr Douglas' expense! In any case, if there was any footage of him swimming naked across a river, it must have ended up on the cutting room floor. The unkindest cut of all?

Chris faces stark reality for the second time
By ALBERT WATSON

THE 19-year-old actor Christopher Douglas, who plays Martin Bell, barman at the Crossroads Motel, will appear naked on television on Thursday-for the second time.

He’ll be appearing in the altogether in front of a blazing fire in “Penda’s Fen,” Thursday’s “Play for Today.”

This should be more comfortable than his TV debut, which called for him to swim starkers across an icy river in the serial “Arthur of the Britons.”

“This could never happen in ‘Crossroads,’” says modest Chris, “though my fanmail seems to indicate that viewers would no object if it did.”