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Oh, this is an easy one: Sesame Street.
My grandparents’ live out in the countryside. They used an antenna on their old TV to get a few basic channel back in the day and probably still do.
Depending on what age I was and where we lived, my parents either didn’t have a TV at all or did the same thing as far as not paying for cable goes for most of my childhood. We generally didn’t get to see much current stuff unless they were on PBS or other public channels. It was a lot of news, Jeopardy, and reruns of older movies or shows instead.
Luckily, Sesame Street was available when I was in the right age groups to watch it.
(The Internet was not even something on our radars back then, and what did exist of it back in those days was nothing at all like what we have today).
I have fond memories of the songs and skits they included on that show. See also: “Sunny days, chasing the clouds away.”
My favourite scenes were the ones that showed other children running around and playing outside on playgrounds or other fun places. I also enjoyed how grumpy Oscar the Grouch was and wished I could climb into his trash can and find out why he liked it so much.