The Best TV Shows on BBC One Wales

Every BBC One Wales Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of April 2026, we’ve curated over 20 of BBC One Wales’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure. Oliver's Travels and Hidden Houses of Wales represent the pinnacle of BBC One Wales’s programming, launching in 1995 and 2010. BBC One Wales’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 1995 to 2026.

  • Wild Wales
    Wild Wales (2010)10.0

    Iolo Williams shares his passion for Welsh wildlife. Filmed over a year, the series features stunning aerial and wildlife photography.

  • The Golden Cobra
    The Golden Cobra (2024)8.0

    This animated comedy follows delivery driver Nick and the Abassi family, proprietors of the worst catering establishment in Ebbw Vale, The Golden Cobra Indian takeaway.

  • Wales: Land of the Wild
    Wales: Land of the Wild (2019)7.0

    Wales: Land of the Wild tells the story of the country's wildlife across twelve dramatic months. The series follows some of Wales's most iconic and charismatic animals from ked kites to grey seals across the year, and in doing so we ll come to know and understand the dynamic forces that influence wildlife in this beautiful country. Each episode captures the moments most associated with that time of year: birth and regeneration in the spring months, growing up and forging a new life across the summer, preparing for the change in autumn and then surviving the winter.

  • Wales' Home of the Year
    Wales' Home of the Year (2022)7.0

    Three experts scour the nation to find the country’s most amazing home. Interior designer Mandy Watkins and architect Glen Thomas will be judging on functionality, distinctiveness and clever design. Joining them is Owain Wyn Evans who has a passion for property and will be looking for a home which reveals the owner’s personality and individual style.

  • Oliver's Travels
    Oliver's Travels (1995)5.0

    Oliver's Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan Bates, Sinéad Cusack, Bill Paterson, and Miles Anderson. It first aired in the UK in 1995. Bates plays the titular Oliver, a keen word-game enthusiast and lecturer in comparative religion. After his teaching post is made redundant, he resolves to make use of his new wealth of free time by going to visit his favourite crossword compiler, 'Aristotle', with whom he has corresponded but whom he has never met. When he arrives, however, he finds Aristotle's house has been ransacked and its occupant has departed for parts unknown, and he sets out to discover why.

  • The Story of Wales
    The Story of Wales (2012)4.5

    Huw Edwards presents a major television history of Wales, showing the country in ways it has never been seen before.

  • Age of Outrage
    Age of Outrage (2021)4.0

    Age of Outrage is a new comedy that takes a quizzical, sceptical and humorous look at modern life. With a variety of sketches the programme pokes fun at the frustrations of life in the digital age.

  • Hidden Houses of Wales
    Hidden Houses of Wales (2010)N/A

    Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen visits some of the finest houses in Wales, stepping back in time to uncover their hidden stories.

  • BBC Wales Investigates
    BBC Wales Investigates (2017)N/A

    Investigative series examining a wide variety of subjects affecting the lives of people in Wales

  • The Crash Detectives
    The Crash Detectives (2018)N/A

    Series going inside the cordon with Gwent Police's dedicated forensic collision investigators, as they deal with serious incidents on the roads.

  • Six Nations Sin Bin
    Six Nations Sin Bin (2019)N/A

    Getting everyone ready for a Six Nations weekend. Gabby Logan and Gareth Thomas are joined by stars and famous fans to look ahead with previews, predictions and a packed crowd.

  • Dark Land: Hunting the Killers
    Dark Land: Hunting the Killers (2020)N/A

    Wales is a beautiful country, but it is also a dark land, where unsolved murders still cast sinister shadows. Former Welsh police officers join forces with an elite team of criminologists and forensic psychologists to re-examine old clues – and uncover new ones – as they attempt to put to rest the unsolved mysteries that darken Wales’ rolling hills.

  • Iolo: The Last Wilderness Of Wales
    Iolo: The Last Wilderness Of Wales (2020)N/A

    Iolo Williams tracks wildlife in one of Wales' extraordinary landscapes - the Cambrian Mountains.

  • Reunion Hotel
    Reunion Hotel (2023)N/A

    If you could reunite with one person from your past, who would it be? Alex Jones and her team give people a unique chance to make that happen at a one-of-a-kind hotel.

  • Saving Lives in Cardiff
    Saving Lives in Cardiff (2024)N/A

    Life-saving operations, difficult dilemmas. Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make before tackling the day job of changing people’s lives.

  • Christmas Top 5
    Christmas Top 5 (2025)N/A

    Mammoth's Mike Bubbins and celebrity friends are making a list (and checking it twice) of Christmas crackers. What are their all time festive favourites from TV, film and music?

  • Flaming Feasts
    Flaming Feasts (2025)N/A

    Set your appetite ablaze as Chris ‘Flamebaster’ Roberts cooks his way across Wales. From top restaurants to local takeaways, it's all about fire, food and fusion.

  • Cannabis Cove: Operation Seal Bay
    Cannabis Cove: Operation Seal Bay (2025)N/A

    A Welsh fishing village find itself at the center of a massive drug smuggling ring.

  • Iolo's River Valleys
    Iolo's River Valleys (2025)N/A

    Iolo Williams explores four of Wales’s most stunning river valleys from sea to source, uncovering their hidden wonders and remarkable wildlife.

  • Bear Grylls - Wild Reckoning
    Bear Grylls - Wild Reckoning (2026)N/A

    Stripping things back to what really matters. Bear helps people resolve deep personal rifts in the Welsh wilderness, combating conflict with the raw, revealing power of nature.