The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of April 2026, our compilation of RTP1’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. From 1956 through to 2022, RTP1 has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. Icons of RTP1, Eurovision Song Contest and Passerelle made their debut in 1956 and 1988, setting industry standards.

  • Cinzas
    Cinzas (1992)10.0

  • Desencontros
    Desencontros (1995)10.0

  • A Senhora das Águas
    A Senhora das Águas (2001)10.0

  • Nico d'Obra
    Nico d'Obra (1993)9.0

  • A Banqueira do Povo
    A Banqueira do Povo (1993)9.0

  • Vidas de Sal
    Vidas de Sal (1996)9.0

  • Roseira Brava
    Roseira Brava (1996)9.0

  • Filhos do Vento
    Filhos do Vento (1997)9.0

  • Terra Mãe
    Terra Mãe (1998)9.0

  • Ajuste de Contas
    Ajuste de Contas (2000)9.0

  • Tell Me How It Happened
    Tell Me How It Happened (2007)8.7

    Television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.

  • Passerelle
    Passerelle (1988)8.0

    The soap opera tells the story of two families: Cardoso and Guimarães whose bosses are, one of them, bank manager and the other owner of a textile factory, linked to the world of fashion.

  • Verão Quente
    Verão Quente (1993)8.0

  • Primeiro Amor
    Primeiro Amor (1996)8.0

  • A Lenda da Garça
    A Lenda da Garça (1999)8.0

  • 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.

  • Na Paz dos Anjos
    Na Paz dos Anjos (1994)7.0

  • Welcome to Beirais
    Welcome to Beirais (2013)7.0

    Diogo Almada is a successful account manager at a telecommunications company who is struggling with serious stress and anxiety issues due to the constant state of pressure he lives in. His situation becomes worse when he suffers a stroke which puts him in hospital. There, doctors tell him that if he doesn't slow down things could become much worse for him in the future. He also meets the owner of a vegetables and herbs greenery in Beirais, a small village in the midlands, who is looking to sell it. Diogo then decides to buy him out and risk it as a farmer himself. He wants his girlfriend Teresa to come along with him, but she refuses to leave Lisbon due to her career and also because she doesn't want to give up her city comforts. But Diogo decides to move to Beirais anyway, where he is faced with an entirely different reality from what he’s used to.

  • Silent Cargo
    Silent Cargo (2022)6.3

    November 2019. A semi-submersible loaded with three tons of cocaine is seized off the Galician coast after having crossed the Atlantic. The captain, Nando, a promising young amateur boxer, travels accompanied by a Brazilian mechanic and a Colombian hitman. Three strangers locked up for almost a month in a claustrophobic handmade boat.

  • 21st Avenue
    21st Avenue (2008)6.0

    Raul Vasconcelos and Helena Brito founded a partnership over 20 years ago and has over a hundred lawyers in its service. Raul has an ego as big as the world and it was that self-assuredness that made him notorious in the courtroom. Besides being an astute lawyer, he’s a hopeless playboy who with age developed the tendency to say and do whatever he feels like. His trouble is that he’s constantly abusing that privilege. Helena is a confident woman, albeit more discreet and concerned about the firm's public perception, constantly considering how her actions might negatively affect the partnership and its bottom line. Her personality led her to take over managing the firm, taking care of all bureaucratic affairs. Other lawyers stand out in the firm, as is the case of Pedro Pimentel, who just made senior partner. He’s impeccably put together and has a smile that wins over most women, but behind this agreeable façade of his there’s a person with a lust for power and fame.