The Best TV Shows on ERT1

Every ERT1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

With its programming history stretching from 1956 to 2023, ERT1 offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. Among ERT1’s finest offerings are Eurovision Song Contest and Jeux Sans Frontières, which debuted in 1956 and 1965, respectively. As of November 2025, we’ve curated over 20 of ERT1’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure.

  • 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.

  • Jeux Sans Frontières
    Jeux Sans Frontières (1965)9.5

    Jeux Sans Frontières was a Europe-wide television game show. In English-speaking countries, the show is also known as It's a Knockout, the title of the BBC's domestic version. In its original conception, it was broadcast from 1965 to 1999 under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union and featured teams from different European countries in outlandish costumes competing to complete bizarre tasks in funny games. The original series run ended in 1982 but was revived a few years later with a different complexion of nations and hosted by smaller broadcasters. In the United Kingdom, participants came from the heats of It's a Knockout. The original presenter was Mcdonald Hobley, but he stayed for just one season before handing over to Katie Boyle, who in turn was replaced by David Vine and Eddie Waring. It was not until 1971 that the presenter most associated with the role, Stuart Hall, took over presenting the UK heats and also provided the British commentary for the international version along with Waring, who was better known as the BBC's Rugby League commentator. Wales had its own team between 1991 and 1994 and the programme was broadcast on S4C in Welsh by Iestyn Garlick.

  • Μηχανή του Χρόνου
    Μηχανή του Χρόνου (2005)9.5

  • The Minor of Dawn
    The Minor of Dawn (1983)8.5

    Set in the 1930s, Antonis Zagouras is a young misusian who comes to Athens trying to make ends meet.

  • Remember When
    Remember When (2020)8.5

    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.

  • 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.

  • Γιάννης και Μαρία
    Γιάννης και Μαρία (1982)8.0

  • 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.

  • Η Παραλία
    Η Παραλία (2023)7.7

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.3

    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

  • O Hristos xanastavronetai
    O Hristos xanastavronetai (1975)7.0

  • Manto Mavrogenous
    Manto Mavrogenous (1983)7.0

  • Haireta mou ton Platano
    Haireta mou ton Platano (2020)6.1

    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.

  • Loxandra
    Loxandra (1980)6.0

    Loxandra is a Greek mother and wife living the ordinary life of a well to-do Greek family in Constantinoupolis of the late 1800s-early 1900s, a world gone forever. Historical events intrude in the background -revolutions, palace coups, massacres, and the great upheavals of WW1 in which Greeks saw their wildest hopes fulfilled, then dashed: for a brief time Constantinoupolis itself was regained, then lost along with all Asia Minor. Through troubles great and small, Loxandra's simple optimism, belief in her Virgin Mary, and love of life carries her family past every difficulty - be it a sumptuous dinner for Easter or secretly giving away her savings to help persecuted Armenians. A representation of a time and place where all neighbors were friends, where they could cook in each other's kitchens or take shelter in each other's cellars.

  • The Death of Timotheos Konstas
    The Death of Timotheos Konstas (1987)6.0

  • Se xena kheria
    Se xena kheria (2021)4.5

  • Μεθυσμένη πολιτεία
    Μεθυσμένη πολιτεία (1980)N/A