Harlan Ellison has created a deep background for the alien race known as the Kyben, as seen in "Demon With A Glass Hand". But all we know of them is limited to just that episode of 'The Outer Limits'.
So, looking at it only from the TV point of view, without the graphic novels and short stories, I'd like to provide a little more for the Toobworld background.....
As established in "The Chase", an episode of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation', the Preservers seeded many planets with the building blocks to create humanoid races throughout the universe. They didn't all look human, but they did share the same basic structure. This would include Vulcans/Romulans, Klingons, Cardassians, Minbari, perhaps the Centaurans, and Orkans.
And to this list we can include the Kyben of Kyba.
The Kyben may have developed along an evolutionary path with primate origins, as Darwin suggested in regards to the human race. But on Kyba, that path may have originated with a different species, perhaps something similar to our own lemurs.
And since we never got to see any proof otherwise, it could be the Kyben still had some vestigial remnant of their own ancestors' striped tail.Just a suggestion, Mr. Ellison. Please don't sue me......
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Now, the time that passed between those two periods would approximately be about the same time span that Robert Culp himself went through from his days as a 'Columbo' murderer to the time leading up to his death just last week. And that passage of Time left its mark on him as it does on all men:
And yet, in these two TV specials, John Freeborn didn't age at all. In fact, when he should have been in his 70s, Freeborn was serving on board a British navy vessel; pressed into service after his own ship had been seized at sea.
The name "John Freeborn" could be looked upon as an alias, to cover his real identity from centuries, even a millennium, earlier. It's true we don't see him with a sword, but that could have been hidden among his supplies on his pack animals. And he might have lost it when he was captured by the English in March of 1812. Eventually he would have gained a new one, but it was just something we never got to see happen.
A little further up the Toobworld timeline, I'd like to add Lyle Pettijohn of 'Roots: The Next Generation' to the list of possible new identities for John Freeborn. The fact that he would have incorporated his old name into his new identity makes it especially appealing. As he wasn't the focus in the story (O'Bviously), I don't remember there being much personal background given to his character. (Also, he could have fathered Pvt. "Littlejohn", Dick Peabody's character on 'Combat!' The characters' timelines overlapped to the point that this would be unlikely for anybody else, but Freeborn was around a long time earlier to make it possible.)
The Wizard of Oz was a tremendous critical success, though its high budget and promotions costs of an estimated $4 million coupled with the lower revenue generated by children's tickets, meant that the film did not make a profit until it was rereleased in the 1940s.
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Quickly assaying the situation, Frank Martin presents himself as Franklin Pynge Salter, which is a play on his old con man nickname of "Frankie Pinch O' Salt" (because you had to take a grain of salt with everything he'd tell you). And without his son's knowledge until it's too late, he inserts himself into the campaign as an advisor. And the hokum he spins for the reporters, worthy of Bilko with a dash of Professor Irwin Corey, gives his son the edge in the election. (And it turns out that people listening to him on the radio thought they would be voting for him the next day.) 
And that's basically what happens in the first episode, "Prodigal Dad".
The other players in that pilot episode survived to the actual series - Robert Lowery as Francis Milbrook and Carole Matthews as daughter-in-law Claire Milbrook. Both were dull as dishwater in this, which is somewhat appropriate since the sponsor was Duz. But then I guess the point was they'd make Frank Morgan shine even more.
Frank's ex-wife Eleanor and her cantankerous sourpuss of a second husband Oliver Milbrook didn't show up until the third episode but they were mentioned a lot in the pilot. (They were played by Lee Patrick and Will Wright. Ms. Patrick was just getting warmed up for her later 'Topper' role.) Best of all, character actor Clinton Sundberg proved to be a great foil as Winston Tattersall, the campaign manager who was going to be Francis Milbrook's chief of staff down in Washington. (We never do learn what district Milbrook is supposedly representing.) 
There are two running routines throughout all three episodes: one is that Frank always calls Winston Tattersall "Winnie" which causes no end of frustration for Clinton Sundberg. The other is that no matter when a picture is taken in which "Franklin Pynge Salter" should show up, somehow he's never caught off-guard and always finds a way to hide his identity from the camera. (The funny thing was that it reminded me of last week's episode of 'How I Met Your Mother' in which no matter what situation, there was no way to take a bad picture of Barney Stimson. It also reminded me of how 'Bret Maverick' did everything he could to avoid getting his picture taken, at least in the sequel.)
The production quality on the surviving recordings is not all that could be hoped for, but at least 
In the new timeline, McInernay didn't go into politics, but instead kept to his seafaring background by becoming the second in command to Captain Shark - as seen in "The Shark Affair", an episode of 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' Although McInernay begged his captain to remain behind with him when their plans were foiled by U.N.C.L.E., Captain Shark forced his first mate to abandon ship as it sank.
This way, two one-shot characters played by James Doohan can connect two classic sci-fi TV series, albeit in alternate dimensions.
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Allen Leighton became a scientist who joined with others in a plan to band Humanity together in a common cause by making them believe that the Earth was threatened by a potential alien invasion. Allen volunteered to undergo the painful injections and surgeries necessary to transform him into a believable alien being. 
Meanwhile, Arthur also was convinced that the world would soon destroy itself in a nuclear holocaust, so he turned to piracy as Captain Shark. His intentions were noble - he planned to gather the people and supplies needed to repopulate the Earth after Armegeddon. U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin were able to stop him and rescue his captives, but Captain Shark chose death over capture and went down with his ship.
She contributed characters to the population of Toobworld in 'The Paper Chase', 'McMillan & Wife', 'Burke's Law', and 'The Outer Limits', as well as in many of the anthology series of the 1950's. She also appeared in two episodes of 'Murder, She Wrote', but the one to check out is "The Grand Old Lady". (This could be a reference either to the luxury liner on which it takes place or to Ms. Havoc's character, 1940's mystery author Lady Abigail Austin who was somewhat pattered after Agatha Christie.
