The Best TV Shows on ČT1

Every ČT1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Peruse our comprehensive roster of ČT1’s top shows, encompassing over 20 distinct series as of August 2025. Across the timeline from 1995 to 2021, ČT1 has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows. Highlighting ČT1’s quality programming, GENUS and Český slavík stand out, premiering in 1995 and 1996.

  • Případy 1. oddělení
    Případy 1. oddělení (2014)8.7

  • The Czech Century
    The Czech Century (2013)8.2

    Czech Century brings the key moments of the history of the Czech nation from 1918 to 1989.

  • Kluci v akci
    Kluci v akci (2005)8.0

  • The Invisibles
    The Invisibles (2014)7.5

    A businessman discovers he has a hidden gene that enables him to breathe water, threatening the existence of the secret Aquarian race, in this charming, comedic fantasy drama from the Czech Republic.

  • Jak si nepodělat život
    Jak si nepodělat život (2019)7.5

    A primary school teacher with an inferiority complex about her weight, a bank clerk who suddenly develops a strange rash around her eyes, an aging owner of a 24-hour deli in an unhappy marriage, a lonely man living in the woods and strangers' cottages. They can continue to survive with their problems, hide them, and not deal with them. Or they can fight it and, at the cost of scars and wounds, improve their lives.

  • Všechnopárty
    Všechnopárty (2005)7.3

  • Vyprávěj
    Vyprávěj (2009)7.3

    Set in Czechoslovakia, the drama follows the lives of its characters against the backdrop of real historical events that shape their personal stories. To evoke period atmosphere, the series intersperses authentic clips from vintage Czechoslovak film newsreels, using their original commentaries or newly recorded historical voice-overs by Vladimír Fišer. A narrator, initially voiced by Vojtěch Kotek and later by Matěj Hádek, provides continuity and reflection, guiding viewers through changing times. Under the guidance of screenwriter Rudolf Merkner, each episode’s script weaves family and individual dramas into key moments of Czech and Slovak history: political shifts, cultural trends, and social transformations from the 1960s onward.

  • StarDance
    StarDance (2006)7.0

  • Labyrinth
    Labyrinth (2015)6.8

    Finding the body of the regional politician Karas, killed in the spirit of medieval torture and carefully arranged in a strange scene, unleash police hunt for a sadistic perpetrator. He puts investigation team in the way of a complex series of murders that shake the local region and criminologists themselves.

  • Rapl
    Rapl (2016)6.7

    Detective Kunes has a problem once again: he's lambasted the boyfriend of his ex-wife, and is threatened with dismissal from the police service. His high-ranking (female) boss has a solution for him: "removing" him on an internships in a back-of-beyond borderland region. But there's a fly in the ointment. His real mission is to unravel the two-year old case of the murder of policewoman Wágnerová, the investigation of which has reached an impasse. But the crime rate in the borderlands is one of the highest in the whole country - involving smuggling, drug production, poaching, prostitution and murders. Kunes has to deal with one difficult case after another, and it takes quite some time before he can start doing what he's sent to do, and then he does it in fact by coincidence.

  • Methanol
    Methanol (2018)6.5

    One shot – you get blind. Two shots – you die. It waits for you in tobacconist, in gift bag from your friend, at wedding… Do you know, what are you drinking? Case that connected police, courts, journalists and politicians. Real story, that can repeat anytime again. In the end of summer 2012, Czech republic was shocked by incidents, that public, detectives or attorneys don't remember. Alcohol made of mix of ethanol and deadly toxic methanol killed at least 38 people and harmed at least 80 in few weeks.

  • The Prague Mysteries
    The Prague Mysteries (2021)6.3

    The Inspector Hynek Budik as been assigned chief of police in the area on the outskirts of Prague, With detectives Martin Novacek an inexperienced rookie and the inspector Havlik will seek to solve difficult cases of murder.

  • Vraždy v kruhu
    Vraždy v kruhu (2015)5.7

  • Hlava Medúzy
    Hlava Medúzy (2021)5.6

  • Horákovi
    Horákovi (2006)5.0

  • GENUS
    GENUS (1995)N/A

  • Český slavík
    Český slavík (1996)N/A

  • Polopatě
    Polopatě (2013)N/A

  • Herbář
    Herbář (2013)N/A

  • Co naše babičky uměly a na co my jsme zapomněli
    Co naše babičky uměly a na co my jsme zapomněli (2018)N/A