Step Lively Productions, Inc., was founded in 1984, by Diane Gurwitz, a protégé of pioneering Jamaican filmmaker, Perry Henzell, (The Harder They Come). As video editor on Henzell's second film, No Place Like Home, tasked with updating its musical soundtrack, the young New Yorker spent three years immersed in reggae music and culture, and returned home to produce the television series, Reggae Strong, with Jamaican playwright/actor Stafford (Ashani) Harrison, in 1985. In the early 80's, an unprecedented number of Jamaican and international reggae artists were touring the world with little mainstream radio or television promotion. Reggae Strong was designed to bridge that gap, as a 30-minute weekly series, produced out of New York City, an essential stop on every touring artist's itinerary. Conceived by Ashani as a 'cultural video magazine', the Step Lively crew began shooting material for Reggae Strong, 'any time we could get our hands on a camera.' Directed by Ashani, and produced and edited by Gurwitz (later dubbed 'Strong'), Reggae Strong was the first reggae television series to be broadcast internationally, via satellite and cable, in 1987. The Reggae Strong series and the Step Lively archive document this exciting era in the music's development through original interview, concert , news, and cultural vignettes. Shot on location throughout the tri-state area, as well as in Jamaica and England, the series is hosted by artists such as Black Uhuru, Third World, Lucky Dube, Alpha Blondy, Ziggy Marley, Maxi Priest, Burning Spear, Majek Fashek, Jimmy Cliff, and Sly and Robbie. The original News and Reviews sections by veteran radio personality, the Night Nurse, (Amy Wachtel,) shot on locationa at various Brooklyn and Manhattan venues, are included in the remastered programs offered here, as they captured a unique time capsule into a vibrant time and place in reggae musical history.