Bad Lads Army

Lads' Army (later renamed Bad Lads' Army in series 2) is a British reality TV programme, specifically of the kind that constitutes a historically derived social experiment - other examples being The 1900 House and The Frontier House. Shown on ITV, Bad Lads Army is based on the premise of subjecting today's delinquent individuals to the conditions of conscripts to British Army National Service of the 1950s in order to see if this could rehabilitate them. The programme was derived from an earlier one called simply Lads Army (a play on Dad's Army) in which a number of volunteers underwent four weeks of basic training for 1950s National Service. Unlike the three sequel series (the ones whose titles began with "Bad"), the original...