Caddyshack and TNT Friday Night Nitro: The Heroic Trio and The Executioners
Craig’s notes
The handwritten label said Space Jam, Daniel O'Donnell and Rock + Roll 2006. Play gave me Caddyshack on ABC Family instead. I love Caddyshack, but the idea of a TV edit had me wondering how much of it could possibly survive. Then an ad for Karate Dog came on, with Chevy Chase as a talking dog who knows karate. That was the part I didn't expect to leave with.
After that the tape jumped back to TNT's Friday Night Nitro, with Michelle Yeoh introducing The Heroic Trio and then The Executioners. The breaks kept offering other movies, a local used-car spot in Beavercreek, and one odd product pitch after another. I didn't finish The Executioners, and I still haven't found the three programs written on the label in what I watched. This tape is doing a much better job advertising movies I wasn't looking for than telling me what its own label means.
Content inventory
Shows and segments (playback order)
- Caddyshack on ABC Family: TV airing identified in playback as May 16, 2006; only part was viewed.
- The Heroic Trio on TNT Friday Night Nitro: Michelle Yeoh introductions; March 1999 block.
- The Executioners on TNT Friday Night Nitro: Michelle Yeoh introductions; playback stopped during this movie.
Commercial inventory
The Heroic Trio / TNT
- Hidy’s Used Cars, Beavercreek
- Eye Mart / Good Doctors (name as logged)
- Sports Illustrated Michael Jordan subscription offer
- AC Delco spark plugs
- Pontiac Montana minivan, train robbery
- Winnie the Pooh talking plush
- Pillsbury cookies in 15 minutes
- Toys “R” Us spring catalog with Nintendo 64 sing-along
- ValueVision / MediaOne Channel 32
- Fitness Made Simple video offer
- 10-10-220 long-distance offer
- Philips Halogen light bulb
- Sears spring sale
- Pizza Hut Big New Yorker
- Blue’s Clues sing-along plush
- Arm & Hammer whitening gum
- Nestlé Flipz
- Kool-Aid smile
- Clorox Clean-Up spray
- Birds Eye Chicken Voila
- Fitness Made Simple (repeat)
- Key Chrysler in Xenia
The Executioners / TNT
- Charmin Ultra with Humpty Dumpty
- H&R Block tax season
- Nabisco Air Crisps
- Allegra
- QVC
- The Pill (as logged; brand unclear)
- Toro self-propelled mowers
- Certs Cool Drops
- Denny’s
- Wall Street Journal
Station and show promos
Caddyshack / ABC Family
- Karate Dog ABC Family premiere with Chevy Chase
- Falcon Beach series premiere
The Heroic Trio / TNT
- Movie Lounge
- Fire-safety animated spot with Gilbert Gottfried (classification uncertain; retained as promotional spot)
- Nothing in Common on TNT
- TNT Happy Birthday Bruce Willis bumper
- Space Jam on TNT
- The Deliberate Stranger on Monstervision
- WrestleMania pay-per-view, March 28, 1999
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Executioners / TNT
- Monica Lewinsky on CNN
Tape details
- Archive ID: VHS-2026-436
- Format: VHS; mixed off-air recording.
- Viewing: 2026-04-23. Partially viewed; stopped during The Executioners.
- Label: Handwritten: Space Jam / Daniel O'Donnell / Rock + Roll 2006
- Separate observed blocks: TNT material dated March 1999; ABC Family Caddyshack airing identified as May 16, 2006.
