The Best TV Shows on ERT1

Every ERT1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Dive into our updated selection of ERT1’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of July 2026. Eurovision Song Contest and Jeux Sans Frontières represent the pinnacle of ERT1’s programming, launching in 1956 and 1965. Showcasing over 20 shows from 1956 up until 2025, ERT1 stands as a beacon of television excellence.

  • 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

  • Music Box
    Music Box (2020)9.3

    Music show with special guests!

  • To Paidi
    To Paidi (2025)9.0

    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.

  • 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.

  • Froutopia
    Froutopia (1985)8.2

    Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.

  • O Hristos xanastavronetai
    O Hristos xanastavronetai (1975)8.0

  • 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.

  • Tales from the fairytale box
    Tales from the fairytale box (1988)7.7

    A children's series with puppets and actors, produced by the Sofianos family. In it stars a little girl, Paraskevi, and her box of puppets which are named Sevastianos, Fiogkos, Rouchlas and Melia. As soon as night falls and Paraskevi goes to her bedroom to sleep, she opens the box and the puppets recount to her folk tales from all over the world. The fairy tales were collected by Ivi Sofianou from libraries in Munich. The series premiered on Friday, February 5, 1988 and ran for 22 episodes.

  • Η Παραλία
    Η Παραλία (2023)7.7

  • Electra
    Electra (2023)7.3

    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.

  • 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

  • And Yet I'm Still Here
    And Yet I'm Still Here (2022)7.0

    Katerina, who was always afraid of death, when she finds out that she has only six months to live, immediately overcomes her inhibitions and self-limitations and finally begins to enjoy life.

  • Mama Sta Kryfa
    Mama Sta Kryfa (2025)7.0

  • 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

  • Αξιότιμοι κύριοι
    Αξιότιμοι κύριοι (1991)N/A