Abstract: A caption display apparatus for a video cassette recorder (VCR), comprising a caption signal detection circuit for detecting a caption signal from a video signal, a caption display signal generation circuit for generating a caption character signal in response to the detected caption signal from the caption signal detection circuit and then outputting a caption display signal as a result of determination of a display size and a display window position of the generated caption character signal, a caption control device for storing the caption display signals from the caption display signal generation circuit and selectively outputting the stored caption display signals in a normal play mode or one of modes other than the normal play mode under selection of the user to perform the caption display for a predetermined time period in the mode selected by the user, and a video/character signal combination circuit for combining the selected caption display signals from the caption control device with the video signa