I remember in the Communist-era in Poland, they would deliberately show Kojak on Sundays to discourage church attendance.
I know a woman who grew up during China's cultural revolution. They would show East German and Polish propaganda films, showing peasants pelting evil capitalist politicians with eggs and rotten fruit.
She said - it made us jealous. We hadn't seen an egg or a tomato in 6 months, and here they are throwing them at people.