The Best TV Shows on DR1

Every DR1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from July 2026 that includes over 20 unique series. Highlighting DR1’s quality programming, Eurovision Song Contest and Dansk Melodi Grand Prix stand out, premiering in 1956 and 1978. Boasting a rich catalog, DR1 features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 1956 to 2025.

  • Mandemænd
    Mandemænd (2025)10.0

  • Hammerslag
    Hammerslag (2007)9.3

    Realestate agents competite against each other, guessing 3 recently sold house prices per show.

  • Spise med Price
    Spise med Price (2008)8.5

    The artistically streaked brothers James and Adam Price learned early on to LOVE food and both are right at home in the kitchen. In this series they alternate between working together and competing against each other as they take on each episode's theme of food. Some dishes are done the old fashioned way, some get a twist but all is done in a humorous atmosphere of good-natured bantering, teasing and story telling.

  • Borgen
    Borgen (2010)8.1

    40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible.

  • Kontant
    Kontant (2005)8.0

    Kontant is the consumer magazine, which every week addresses important issues that affect Danes and their wallets. The editors focus on the consumers' agenda, follow their complaints, come up with good advice, investigate and provide an overview.

  • The Killing
    The Killing (2007)8.0

    The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.

  • Pagten
    Pagten (2009)8.0

    Pagten is a Danish television series.

  • The Kingdom
    The Kingdom (1994)7.6

    The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.

  • Sommer
    Sommer (2008)7.6

    Sommer is a Danish TV-drama aired on DR1 in 2008. The series was created by Jesper W. Nielsen and Karina Dam

  • The Legacy
    The Legacy (2014)7.5

    The death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family inheritance.

  • Taxa
    Taxa (1997)7.4

    TAXA is a Danish television drama made by Danmarks Radio with 56 episodes, written by Stig Thorsboe and produced by Rumble Hammerich. The series revolves around a small taxi central, CrownTaxi, in Copenhagen. The series was a success from the start, 14 September 1997 on DR1. The series was broadcast during the period 1997-1999 for a total of five series. CrownTaxi has its ups and downs and in the course of the series, following the various drivers, radio opertor Lizzie and boss Verner Boye-Larsen. They have all their problems both with clients and family life and constantly threaten the show's villain Hermann from the competing taxi firm, City Car, which wants to take over the CrownTaxi. TAXA was also screened in Sweden on SVT1.

  • Unit One
    Unit One (2000)7.3

    Rejseholdet is a Danish television crime series starring Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Brygmann. Produced by Danmarks Radio, the program aired 32 episodes spanning four seasons from 2000 to 2004. Each episode revolved around an elite mobile police task force called "Unit One" that travels around Denmark helping local police solve crimes. Cases portrayed in the show were loosely based upon actual incidents of sensational crimes such as murders, kidnappings, cross-border sex traffic and child pornography. Rejseholdet won the 2002 International Emmy Award for best drama series.

  • 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.

  • Time travels
    Time travels (2014)7.1

    A teenage girl wish for her parents to get back together, when suddenly she meets a time traveling guy from the future. Together they try to change both the past and the feature - with small bumps on their way.

  • Carmen Curlers
    Carmen Curlers (2022)6.9

    In 1963, a business adventure begins in a basement in a small Danish town. Within a few years, the company has 3500 employees, many of them women who are experiencing for the first time the joys and challenges of earning their own money.

  • Follow the Money
    Follow the Money (2016)6.8

    'Follow the Money' is a crime drama that explores what happens to people who are corrupted by greed and ambition. The series shows viewers the complex world of economic crime that takes place in banks, the stock exchange, and in boardrooms.

  • Kender du typen
    Kender du typen (2011)6.5

    Follow lifestyle experts try to guess which famous person is the weeks guest, solely based on their home

  • History of the World
    History of the World (2020)6.5

    It's about human history, how humans shaped the world we live in. A history through cultures and civilizations - from early Mesopotamia to the industrial revolution. Documentary series from various european production company’s like BBC, SVT, NRK, DR, ARTE, Covering serveral topics of war, Persons Like Cleopatra, Hitler, George Washington, etc

  • Better Times
    Better Times (2004)6.3

    The lives of two fictional families during the historical development of Danmarks Radio television network from the 1950s to the 1970s.

  • Dansk Melodi Grand Prix
    Dansk Melodi Grand Prix (1978)N/A

    Dansk Melodi Grand Prix is an annual music competition organised by Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio, which determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. The festival has produced three Eurovision winners and thirteen top-five placings.