An apparatus for quick starting of tape forwarding-and-rewinding operation for video cassette recorders, wherein fast-forwarding or rewinding operation of a video tape can be quickly started, because loading plates, which are locked in loading holes as during the recording or reproducing operation, keep the tape being loaded on a head drum, while the tape can be wound by only the driving force to rotate one of the reel discs, because two guide grooves in different shapes are provided on upper and lower surfaces of a cam gear and so a tension pole and a pinch roller come off the tape and the tape gets out of touch with various fixed posts in its travelling route, before the fast-forwarding or rewinding operation is started.