The Best TV Shows on ERT1

Every ERT1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Dive into our updated selection of ERT1’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of October 2026. Premiering in 1956 and 1965, Eurovision Song Contest and Jeux Sans Frontières are among ERT1’s most celebrated shows. ERT1’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 1956 to 2026.

  • 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

  • Jeux Sans Frontières
    Jeux Sans Frontières (1965)8.7

    Jeux sans frontières ("Games Without Borders" in French) was a Europe-wide television game show, based on the French programme Intervilles which was first broadcast in 1962. In its original conception, it was broadcast from 1965 to 1999 under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which owned the format. In non French-speaking countries, the show had alternative titles. It is also widely known as "It's a Knockout", the title of the BBC's domestic version and national selection for the programme.

  • At the Campsite
    At the Campsite (1989)8.5

    The series evolves during a laid-back summer at a camping in Peloponesse, Greece. Takis is an entrepreneur who sets up and manages a campsite on a picturesque coast of the Peloponesse. He staffs the campsite with locals, including his cousin Mitsos who is a horse breeder and works as the riding instructor of the campsite. The series details the short-lived relations and interactions between campsite staff and guests, and especially the summer love of Mitsos with Samantha–an English tourist.

  • To Paidi
    To Paidi (2025)8.5

    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.

  • 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.

  • Froutopia
    Froutopia (1985)8.2

    Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.

  • 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)7.4

    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.

  • Electra
    Electra (2023)7.3

    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.

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

    Greek television series

  • The Net
    The Net (2024)7.2

    A crime drama with six independent stories. A selected group of General Police officers undertakes the resolution of important cases of special interest, addressing problems that concern today's Greek society. The main characters often move in between “black" and "white" and fall prey to their passions, in a complex situation where victims and perpetrators face circumstances above their limits.

  • Tommorow
    Tommorow (2026)6.5

  • 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

  • Sing for Greece: Greece's Eurovision National Selection
    Sing for Greece: Greece's Eurovision National Selection (2025)N/A

    Sing for Greece is the national selection used by Greece to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

  • TV Land
    TV Land (2026)N/A

  • Κουτσουπιές
    Κουτσουπιές (2026)N/A