still trying to find out if there really was a "P B" -- but my wife has researched the era and says that many groups and syndicates and political parties and factions are pretty much accurately portrayed. Each season seems to have the PB's facing off yet another even-more-criminal (even the official governmental types are even-more devious, scary, and, yes, evil) -- and at the outset Tommy S somehow outwits/out-maneuvers them.