The Best TV Shows on ORF III
Every ORF III Show Ranked From Best To Worst
With its programming history stretching from 1991 to 2023, ORF III offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. Premiering in 1991 and 1994, The Strauss Dynasty and Phettbergs nette Leit Show are among ORF III’s most celebrated shows. Check out the most acclaimed shows on ORF III, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for September 2025.
Phettbergs nette Leit Show (1994)10.0
Austria from Above: Jewels of the Country (2016)4.0Georg Riha is and will remain the master of aerial shots. In this series, Riha uses aerial shots only. In shootings that took several years he flew over almost all of Austria and shows the country's most beautiful places from the aerial perspective during the course of a year.
The Strauss Dynasty (1991)N/AA dramatization of two generations of the Viennese Strauss family, whose dance music and operettas dominated much of Europe and beyond for most of the 19th century.
- Der Spritzen-Karli (1995)N/A
- Erlesen (2010)N/A
- Berggespräche (2010)N/A
Hollywood in Vienna (2011)N/AHollywood in Vienna is an annual film music gala hosted in the Vienna Concert Hall where the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award is presented.
- Aus dem Rahmen (2011)N/A
Aus dem Archiv (2012)N/A- Science Talk (2012)N/A
DENK mit KULTUR (2014)N/A- Kabarett im Turm (2016)N/A
- Baumeister der Republik (2016)N/A
- Die Tafelrunde (2018)N/A
- 3 x 3 – Quiz mit Klasse (2019)N/A
Soundtrack Österreich (2019)N/A
Dinner für Zwei (2020)N/A- Wir waren jung und brauchten das Geld (2022)N/A
Österreich – Die ganze Geschichte (2023)N/A
Russlands Kriege (2023)N/A