The best kitchen set I had was a Sony KV-9000 9" Trinitron, until it began to arc and lose focus. At the time - 1990s, I was no longer into working on TV.
I also had a parts set -but let both go at a swap meet cause I was plain tired of Sony H-stat focus pot issues at the time. The CRT's were tired but still made decent color.
So I just grabbed another one of my TV rescues, a 1983 RCA 13" (EGA-330) color with one-knob tuner, which a friend of mine got and still has - it always looked good. I recall unboxing and setting these RCA's up for the old folks our store catered to. A few of the early ones, like sold in 1978-80 came back for a warranty flyback job and HOT, but other than that it was just that 800 mf cap, first on the power supply.
More recently friend of mine had a
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-80s...sAAOSw~y9c~a3U 9" Zenith color - horizontal keyboard tuner from '87 or so. I repaired a solder joint that affected the afc on cable, then she passed away and I never saw it again. I recall it being a SWEET little piece, I have seen them in colors.
The Emerson combo mini that Sandy mentions was pretty popular, must have been sold everywhere, and it was a decent receiver too.