The Best TV Shows on TVP1

Every TVP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

With its programming history stretching from 1956 to 2024, TVP1 offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. Eurovision Song Contest and Four Tank-Men and a Dog represent the pinnacle of TVP1’s programming, launching in 1956 and 1966. Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from January 2026 that includes over 20 unique series.

  • Dekalog
    Dekalog (1989)8.5

    Dekalog (pronounced [dɛˈkalɔk]) is a 1989 Polish drama television miniseries directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner. It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. Each installment explores characters facing one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they reside in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human.

  • More Than Life At Stake
    More Than Life At Stake (1968)8.1

    A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.

  • Four Tank-Men and a Dog
    Four Tank-Men and a Dog (1966)7.8

    Czterej pancerni i pies was a Polish black and white TV series based on the book by Janusz Przymanowski. Made between 1966 and 1970, the series is composed of 21 episodes of 55 minutes each, divided into three seasons. It is set in 1944 and 1945, during World War II, and follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army. Although both the book and the TV series contain elements of pro-Soviet propaganda, they have achieved and retain a cult series status in Poland, Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. The T-34 tank Rudy with the identifying number "102", a German Shepherd dog from Siberia Szarik and to a lesser extent the crew Jan Kos, Gustaw Jeleń, Grigorij Saakaszwili, Tomasz Czereśniak, and their commander and mentor Olgierd Jarosz, as well as other heroes of the series, have become icons in Polish popular culture.

  • Polowanie na ćmy
    Polowanie na ćmy (2023)7.5

  • Blood for Blood
    Blood for Blood (2012)7.4

    *Blood for Blood (2012)* follows Job, a methodical Dutch undercover cop whose life shatters when his wife is murdered. Consumed by grief and disillusioned with official justice, he goes rogue. Using his expert skills, he infiltrates Amsterdam's brutal drug underworld alone, not to enforce the law, but to hunt his wife's killers. As he descends, the line between cop and criminal vanishes in this tense thriller about the corrosive, transformative power of vengeance.

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.3

    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.

  • The Moomins
    The Moomins (1978)7.2

    A stop motion animated children's television series based on Tove Jansson's book series.

  • Leśniczówka
    Leśniczówka (2018)7.0

  • Ranczo
    Ranczo (2006)6.9

    Ranczo ["Ranch"] is a Polish television comedy series, directed by Wojciech Adamczyk, that has aired since March 2006 on TVP1. It follows the story of Lucy Wilska, a Polish-American who has inherited her grandmother's country home in the fictional small town of Wilkowyje. She arrives in Wilkowyje intent on selling the cottage but, after seeing the charm of the village, decides to stay.

  • The Crown of the Kings
    The Crown of the Kings (2018)6.8

    Piasts' reign is coming to end on Casimir the Great, who have no sons. Polish throne comes to Anjous. Thanks to the marriage of Saint Jadwiga of Poland with Lithuanian Grand Duke Jogaila, an alliance is made and a new dynasty - Jagiellons, who rule Poland for next two hundred years

  • House Under the Two Eagles
    House Under the Two Eagles (2023)6.5

    The story begins in the summer of 1997, just before the arrival of the famous 12-meter flood wave flooding Wroclaw. - The residents of the "Home under Two Eagles" are grandma Zofia Szablewska, a woman full of energy, warmth and humor, her daughter Helena, a cool perfectionist, and Marianna, Zofia's beloved granddaughter, returning with her fiancé from a scholarship in the USA. The family drama begins when a flood wave floods the house, and at the same time grandma Zofia ends up in the hospital due to a stroke. An unfortunate coincidence leads Marianna to discover post-German traces in a house destroyed by the element, thanks to which she finds the diary of the first owner of "Home under Two Eagles", Lisa Weber. Marianna's learning of the history written on the cards takes the action of the series to 1918. In subsequent episodes, viewers will learn about the life of the then inhabitants of the tenement house and their neighbors.

  • Na sygnale
    Na sygnale (2014)6.0

  • Our Century
    Our Century (2019)6.0

    The saga of the Winny family through 100 years. The action begins on the eve of World War I in 1914 and ends in modern times.

  • Profilerka
    Profilerka (2024)5.8

  • The Londoners
    The Londoners (2008)5.4

    Londyńczycy is a Polish TV drama series about Polish immigrants in London, aired on TVP 1 since late 2008. It is currently aired on Community Channel. The title music for the series is the Robbie Williams song "Supreme".

  • Ojciec Mateusz
    Ojciec Mateusz (2008)5.3

  • Komisarz Alex
    Komisarz Alex (2012)5.3

  • Klan
    Klan (1997)4.7

    Family is the most important thing, and the children of Władysław and Maria Lubicz from Warsaw can always count on each other, no matter what surprises life offers.

  • Lokatorzy
    Lokatorzy (2000)N/A

  • Piąty stadion
    Piąty stadion (2012)N/A