An except from the BBC's "Video Jukebox" presentation (one night in 1986, BBC2 played pop videos all night long - and things were never the same again) but of course to balance out all that unconstrained hip-swinging, time also for some serious documentary technique as our hosts John Peel and John Waters take a look behind the scenes at the American TV station that started it all barely five years earlier - MTV. Remember, these are the days before the UK had cable or satellite to any significant degree, so to British homes only just getting used to the dizzy heights of having FOUR television channels, the idea of a TV station that played only music videos must have seemed like as unusual then as perhaps, with hindsight, it does today.

Haphazardly edited to reduce the length of the Dire Straits and Buggles music videos, which would doubtless otherwise upset YouTube, but you'll never see the join... As long as you don't look too closely. Enjoy.

Contributions from, and interviews with Martha Quinn, John Landis, Thomas Dolby, Bob Pittman, Dave Marsh (Rock Critic), Midge Ure, Madness, some MTV Viewers, and Malcolm McLaren.

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