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Don't ever remember seeing this episode as a kid in the UK back in the 70s - which is hardly surprising as I have since learned this was originally never broadcast as it banned because of its content!

This episode very obviously displays American sympathies for the IRA which led to its broadcast ban over here.

It's simplistic portrayal of the IRA and their "struggles for freedom" are so one dimensional it's ridiculous. Steve Austin obviously gets over mourning the loss of his childhood sweetheart, the newly made bionic woman, as he quickly falls in love with a gun toting IRA - sorry IBA (which disconcertainty sounds like a stomach condition!) - cell leader and wants to whisk off to America to show her the sights. She declines because she wants to stay and fight the good fight.

Considering the USA's intervention in other states affairs this episode is incredibly trite, and, frankly, insulting!

So the wife of a villain has become bored and wants to get rid of said husband but not lose the lifestyle to which she has become accustomed - but what can she do?

She becomes Reagan's informant with a bit of nookie on the side in the hope that Jack and Co can call her dodgy spouse and put in behind bars while she can continue enjoying the luxuries of his villainous ways.

It all comes to nothing because the only witness witness is a little old lady, who is viciously beaten by the gang leader and then identifies him in a line-up (since when did villains line up in a hospital ward?) subsequently pops her clogs. The fact that the poor old dear was in hospital due to the injuries received after the vicious clout by the villain is deemed of no consequence to her subsequent demise?