This is VHS-2025-005, recorded July 1990 off TNT/TBS Turner networks and WGN-TV Chicago.
Lost Media
The Turner network bumpers from 1990 are gone. The “All Night Festival of the Stars” bumper on this tape turns up zero results anywhere online. The Barbara Stanwyck TNT promo is gone. The Greed (1923) “National TV Premiere” promo — gone. These were internal Turner promotional materials. Nobody archived them. The Goodwill Games broadcasts themselves have some footage floating around, but the surrounding programming material from this specific period is not findable.
About This Tape
Mark of the Vampire (1935) aired on TNT during this stretch, which is the kind of programming choice Turner made in those years. Classic horror on a cable network that also ran wrestling and Cold War athletics. That’s the early Turner era in a nutshell.
The Goodwill Games ran from 1986 to 2001 before getting cancelled for low ratings. By the time most people remember them existing at all, they were already winding down. This tape is from when they were still the whole point.
Streamed December 30, 2025 on Twitch.
