The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Discover the best of RTP1 with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for October 2026. Premiering in 1956 and 1989, Eurovision Song Contest and Rua Sésamo are among RTP1’s most celebrated shows. A broadcaster of distinction, RTP1 has aired more than 20 shows between 1956 and 2022.

  • Desencontros
    Desencontros (1995)10.0

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

  • 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

  • A Grande Aposta
    A Grande Aposta (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.

  • Verão Quente
    Verão Quente (1993)8.0

  • Primeiro Amor
    Primeiro Amor (1996)8.0

  • Os Lobos
    Os Lobos (1998)8.0

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

  • 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.

  • Rua Sésamo
    Rua Sésamo (1989)7.0

  • 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)6.4

    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.

  • Programa Cautelar
    Programa Cautelar (2021)N/A

    A combination of humor and analysis, which tries to explain reality in a simple, fun and factual way.