The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from August 2026 that includes over 20 unique series. From 1956 through to 2024, RTP1 has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. Leading the pack on RTP1 are Eurovision Song Contest and Festival da Canção, with their initial broadcasts in 1956 and 1964.

  • Salto de Fé
    Salto de Fé (2024)10.0

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

  • Vidas de Sal
    Vidas de Sal (1996)9.0

  • Filhos do Vento
    Filhos do Vento (1997)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.

  • Herman Enciclopédia
    Herman Enciclopédia (1997)8.2

    Herman encyclopedia is a sketch comedic show with every episode centered on a theme, The host (Herman) and other actors play many characters spoofing Portuguese TV shows, famous Portuguese people and other Portuguese related stuff.

  • Verão Quente
    Verão Quente (1993)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.

  • Vila Faia
    Vila Faia (1982)7.0

  • Rua Sésamo
    Rua Sésamo (1989)7.0

  • Matilha
    Matilha (2024)6.8

  • Mysteries of Lisbon
    Mysteries of Lisbon (2011)6.5

    The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)

  • Madre Paula
    Madre Paula (2017)4.5

    The story of the forbidden romance between Paula, a nun of the Convent of Odivelas, and King D. João V. A love without limits, which takes place in the eighteenth century, and made the King ignore common sense and take the nun as a lover, a confidant, and a counselor. Based on the historical novel by Patrícia Muller.

  • Festival da Canção
    Festival da Canção (1964)N/A

    Festival da Canção or Festival RTP da Canção is the name given to the national festival, produced and broadcast by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal to choose the Portuguese entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

  • Paixões Proibidas
    Paixões Proibidas (2006)N/A

  • Father by Chance
    Father by Chance (2009)N/A

    An unlikely love with a happy ending... At age 40, Miguel is at the top of his career as a plastic surgeon, having reached the fame and fortune he worked so hard for. He’s a hopeless bachelor, never committing to any real relationship. This is not just by choice, his situation is a result of never having met his parents and being raised in a children’s home. But, overnight, a simple phone call will change his life entirely, making him recall a point in his life that he’d rather forget. His best friend from the institution was just killed in a car crash along with his wife, but left written instructions behind stating that, if something should happen to him, Miguel should be given custody of his three children, 12-year-old Simão, 8-year-old Jaime and 6-year-old Beatriz. Initially, Miguel will try to dismiss himself from any responsibility but, after meeting the kids, he realizes that he has no choice but to bring them home.

  • Soldado Milhões
    Soldado Milhões (2018)N/A

    Aníbal Augusto Milhais The most important desire to live in peace was persecuted by the name of Portugal. The story comes from the memories of war, those stirred up during a hunt. In this quest, Millions carrying out their struggle for survival 20 years before in World War I free. At dawn on April 9, 1918, dozens of German divisions burst through the sector defended by the second division of the Portuguese Expedited Corps (CEP). In a few hours, in what would be known as the Battle of La Lys, more than 7,500 men were lost. Milhais refuses the orders of Captain and is alone, before a regiment of German soldiers, to save its affiliations. Milhais faces his biggest challenge. He is the only one of his friends.

  • 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.