The Best TV Shows on ERT1

Every ERT1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Peruse our comprehensive roster of ERT1’s top shows, encompassing over 20 distinct series as of June 2026. Some of the best tv shows from ERT1 include Eurovision Song Contest and Jeux Sans Frontières, airing in 1956 and 1965 respectively. Across the timeline from 1956 to 2026, ERT1 has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • Mama's Cake
    Mama's Cake (2020)9.6

    "Mom's Cake", the main axis is mom's family tables, where guests are of different ages, moods and beliefs, gather to come closer, to meet, to remember, to smile, but also to quarrel and to disagree.

  • Μηχανή του Χρόνου
    Μηχανή του Χρόνου (2005)9.5

  • Jeux Sans Frontières
    Jeux Sans Frontières (1965)8.7

    Jeux sans frontières ("Games Without Borders" in French) was a Europe-wide television game show, based on the French programme Intervilles which was first broadcast in 1962. In its original conception, it was broadcast from 1965 to 1999 under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which owned the format. In non French-speaking countries, the show had alternative titles. It is also widely known as "It's a Knockout", the title of the BBC's domestic version and national selection for the programme.

  • Remember When
    Remember When (2020)8.4

    The youngest of the Antonopoulou family, the eight-year-old Angelos and storyteller, will travel with us in the late 60's, when television was slowly entering the family living rooms, in "Our Best Years".

  • Act Like You're Asleep
    Act Like You're Asleep (2022)8.4

    Nikolas, a charismatic high school teacher sees his life fall apart violently and unexpectedly. During an intense crisis in his marriage, Nicholas becomes romantically involved, for one night, with the mother of one of his students who exhibits behavioral problems. A few days later, his wife is murdered during an armed robbery in their own home and his daughter is transferred to the intensive care unit in critical condition.

  • At the Campsite
    At the Campsite (1989)8.2

    The series evolves during a laid-back summer at a camping in Peloponesse, Greece. Takis is an entrepreneur who sets up and manages a campsite on a picturesque coast of the Peloponesse. He staffs the campsite with locals, including his cousin Mitsos who is a horse breeder and works as the riding instructor of the campsite. The series details the short-lived relations and interactions between campsite staff and guests, and especially the summer love of Mitsos with Samantha–an English tourist.

  • Karyotakis
    Karyotakis (2009)8.0

    The series describes the life of the poet Kostas Karyotakis. It follows his life from his teenage years and sheds light on unknown aspects of his artistic and professional life. A special place is occupied by the part about his relationship with the poet Maria Polydouri. Through the lives of the two protagonists, the politically and socially turbulent period of the 1910s and 1920s is projected.

  • The Numbers
    The Numbers (2022)8.0

    The new 24-episode musical comedy is a hybrid of comical situations, heaps of satire and musical spectacle, based on Foivos Delivorias and Spyros Krimpalis' original idea and directed by Grigoris Karantinakis. An original fiction series, in which reality will be defeated by surrealism.

  • An August Night
    An August Night (2022)8.0

    The new drama series "An August Night", which is a continuation of "The Island" takes us back to the 50s. Spinalonga closes and a feast follows in the village. The healthy meet the newly cured and all together celebrate freedom from fear and disease. But everything freezes with the murder of a woman by her husband, when he learns that his best friend had a lover.

  • Electra
    Electra (2023)8.0

    The bright sunlight shines on the small island of Arsinoe. Some secrets, betrayals, and crimes are revealed. The mirror has somehow turned upside down. Sotiris, who was let down by those closest to him, will go from being a victim to becoming a perpetrator.

  • The Oath II
    The Oath II (2023)8.0

    One night, the renowned surgeon Philippos Razis (Christos Loulis) finds an abandoned 12-year-old Roma girl outside the hospital, writhing in pain. He himself is off duty, but seeing that time is not on her side, he decides to operate on her himself. In the operating room he realizes that the girl's kidney is missing.

  • To Paidi
    To Paidi (2025)8.0

    Artemis, a former taekwondo champion, is forced to become the guardian of Dimitris, a child on the autism spectrum and the son of a Russian tycoon, after his family is violently attacked. With his parents abducted and the police unwilling to intervene, she takes him and seeks refuge in her father’s remote village. But there, another mystery awaits: the unexplained disappearance of the mayor and the wary, secretive locals.

  • The Great Chimera
    The Great Chimera (2026)8.0

    In the early 20th century, a brilliant Italian Woman, entranced by classical Greek culture, falls in love with a ship owner and moves to a thriving Greek island, throwing herself into a vortex of passion, emancipation and self-destruction.

  • Η Παραλία
    Η Παραλία (2023)7.7

  • 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.

  • Monday's Theater
    Monday's Theater (1972)7.2

    Greek television series

  • The Death of Timotheos Konstas
    The Death of Timotheos Konstas (1987)6.5

  • Haireta mou ton Platano
    Haireta mou ton Platano (2020)5.8

    The small Greek village of Platanos (Plane Tree) buries the elderly recluse Vangelas and notifies the deceased's estranged children and grandchildren about his death. Vangela's will leaves 3 million euros to his family, but requires them to move to the village and obey certain terms in order to inherit.

  • Se xena kheria
    Se xena kheria (2021)4.5

  • Αρχελάου 5
    Αρχελάου 5 (2024)N/A