The Best TV Shows on ERT1

Every ERT1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

ERT1 has over 20 shows broadcast from as early as 1956 and as recent as 2026. Some of the best tv shows from ERT1 include Eurovision Song Contest and Monday's Theater, airing in 1956 and 1972 respectively. As of May 2026, we’ve curated over 20 of ERT1’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure.

  • Mother and Son
    Mother and Son (2002)10.0

    Pericles lives with his controlling mother Ioulia, who is starting to show signs of dementia.

  • Mama's Cake
    Mama's Cake (2020)9.6

    "Mom's Cake", the main axis is mom's family tables, where guests are of different ages, moods and beliefs, gather to come closer, to meet, to remember, to smile, but also to quarrel and to disagree.

  • Μηχανή του Χρόνου
    Μηχανή του Χρόνου (2005)9.5

  • Remember When
    Remember When (2020)8.4

    The youngest of the Antonopoulou family, the eight-year-old Angelos and storyteller, will travel with us in the late 60's, when television was slowly entering the family living rooms, in "Our Best Years".

  • Act Like You're Asleep
    Act Like You're Asleep (2022)8.4

    Nikolas, a charismatic high school teacher sees his life fall apart violently and unexpectedly. During an intense crisis in his marriage, Nicholas becomes romantically involved, for one night, with the mother of one of his students who exhibits behavioral problems. A few days later, his wife is murdered during an armed robbery in their own home and his daughter is transferred to the intensive care unit in critical condition.

  • O Hristos xanastavronetai
    O Hristos xanastavronetai (1975)8.0

  • Karyotakis
    Karyotakis (2009)8.0

    The series describes the life of the poet Kostas Karyotakis. It follows his life from his teenage years and sheds light on unknown aspects of his artistic and professional life. A special place is occupied by the part about his relationship with the poet Maria Polydouri. Through the lives of the two protagonists, the politically and socially turbulent period of the 1910s and 1920s is projected.

  • Cartes Postales from Greece
    Cartes Postales from Greece (2021)8.0

    Based on the books of famous author Victoria Hislop, the series transports us to Crete and London, through 12 riveting, independent stories, starring Andreas Κonstantinou. Joseph, an introverted, Greek-born English archaeologist, is planning to propose to his girlfriend and has arranged a trip to his birthplace, Crete. When she doesn't show up at the airport, he sets out on a solitary walkabout of the island. He starts sending postcards to his ex-girlfriend's house in London, with stories he hears or experiences. He doesn't know, however, that the postcards are received by the house's new occupant, Eli, who develops feelings for this mysterious man.

  • The Numbers
    The Numbers (2022)8.0

    The new 24-episode musical comedy is a hybrid of comical situations, heaps of satire and musical spectacle, based on Foivos Delivorias and Spyros Krimpalis' original idea and directed by Grigoris Karantinakis. An original fiction series, in which reality will be defeated by surrealism.

  • Electra
    Electra (2023)8.0

    The bright sunlight shines on the small island of Arsinoe. Some secrets, betrayals, and crimes are revealed. The mirror has somehow turned upside down. Sotiris, who was let down by those closest to him, will go from being a victim to becoming a perpetrator.

  • To Paidi
    To Paidi (2025)8.0

    Artemis, a former taekwondo champion, is forced to become the guardian of Dimitris, a child on the autism spectrum and the son of a Russian tycoon, after his family is violently attacked. With his parents abducted and the police unwilling to intervene, she takes him and seeks refuge in her father’s remote village. But there, another mystery awaits: the unexplained disappearance of the mayor and the wary, secretive locals.

  • The Great Chimera
    The Great Chimera (2026)8.0

    In the early 20th century, a brilliant Italian Woman, entranced by classical Greek culture, falls in love with a ship owner and moves to a thriving Greek island, throwing herself into a vortex of passion, emancipation and self-destruction.

  • Η Παραλία
    Η Παραλία (2023)7.7

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.2

    The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

  • Monday's Theater
    Monday's Theater (1972)7.2

    Greek television series

  • And Yet I'm Still Here
    And Yet I'm Still Here (2022)7.0

    Katerina, who was always afraid of death, when she finds out that she has only six months to live, immediately overcomes her inhibitions and self-limitations and finally begins to enjoy life.

  • Kala Tha Paei Ki Afto
    Kala Tha Paei Ki Afto (2025)7.0

    Paris and Michaela grew up together, in a seaside town that smelled of salt, memories, innocence, but also lies, repressed emotion and repression. The two of them, tied by that thread that had no name. It was neither friendship, nor love, nor blood. It was all together. Until it was nothing. You don't kill love with a knife. You kill it with a word that shouldn't have been said. One sentence from Paris destroyed everything. She, who listened to him without being supposed to, left.

  • Haireta mou ton Platano
    Haireta mou ton Platano (2020)5.8

    The small Greek village of Platanos (Plane Tree) buries the elderly recluse Vangelas and notifies the deceased's estranged children and grandchildren about his death. Vangela's will leaves 3 million euros to his family, but requires them to move to the village and obey certain terms in order to inherit.

  • Se xena kheria
    Se xena kheria (2021)4.5

  • To Mikro Spiti Sto Pagkrati
    To Mikro Spiti Sto Pagkrati (1998)N/A

    Eleni, Kyriakos and their four children live in a small house in Pagrati. Kyriakos works in the Municipality of Athens as a gardener. Eleni works as a cashier in a supermarket. She loves her husband and her children and faces daily difficulties with humor. When, however, she learns that Kyriakos is not only taking care of the plants, but also the body of a rich and fancy widow, Eleni turns from a sheep into a bull and decides to take revenge. And he takes it in various ways, moral and immoral, legitimate and unjust, comic and tragic.