The Best TV Shows on BBC One Wales

Every BBC One Wales Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of September 2026, our compilation of BBC One Wales’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Highlighting BBC One Wales’s quality programming, Oliver's Travels and Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein stand out, premiering in 1995 and 1997. A broadcaster of distinction, BBC One Wales has aired more than 20 shows between 1995 and N/A.

  • 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.

  • Wales: Land of the Wild
    Wales: Land of the Wild (2019)8.5

    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.

  • 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' 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)6.0

    Oliver is a middle-aged lecturer in Comparative Religion, with a passion for trivia, crosswords, and anagrams, and a very strange sense of humour. Having been fired from the University of the Rhondda Valley, and with no family ties, he decides to set off on a quest to find 'Aristotle', a setter of crosswords. He teams up with WPC Diane Priest, who has just been suspended for asking too many questions about a local murder that seems to implicate the Chief Constable. Pursued by 'The Man with No Name', the unlikely duo visit Shrewsbury, North Yorkshire, Durham, Hadrian's Wall, and Kirkleven in the Scottish highlands on their journey to find 'Aristotle' in the Orkney Isles.

  • The Story of Wales
    The Story of Wales (2012)5.3

    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.

  • Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein
    Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein (1997)N/A

    A documentary series examining the history of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein, during the Northern Ireland Troubles.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Better Later
    Better Later (N/A)N/A

    Better Later (6x30’), is centred on the relationship between two people who meet at a knee trauma clinic; retired teacher Clive (Speirs) is 60 and widowed and environmental health officer Shelley Anne (Jones) is 55 and going through a bitter divorce.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • Deuawdau Rhys Meirion
    Deuawdau Rhys Meirion (N/A)N/A

    Rhys Meirion sings new arrangements of popular duets with Welsh singers.