The Best TV Shows on HRT 1

Every HRT 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of June 2025, our compilation of HRT 1’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Boasting a rich catalog, HRT 1 features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 1971 to 2024. Where the Wild Boars Go and Smoggies represent the pinnacle of HRT 1’s programming, launching in 1971 and 1982.

  • Operation Barbarossa
    Operation Barbarossa (1990)10.0

    Operation Barbarossa is a kids TV show, based on the novel The Mysterious Boy by Ivan Kušan. It is a story about a boy who for some time lives in the belief that he is to blame for the death of a friend, a peer, who drowned in the Sava river. In order to cover up his death, the boy takes his name (because he had just come to Zagreb when he disappeared) also goes to another school. Thus, in two shifts (before noon - afternoon), he tries to be a student in two schools and gets into many dramatic situations. The riddle is, of course, solved by Kušan's main character Koko.

  • Stylish in the Guests
    Stylish in the Guests (2008)9.0

    A widower from Split arrives in Zagreb for a medical checkup and disrupts his son’s family everyday.

  • The Diary of the Great Perica
    The Diary of the Great Perica (2021)9.0

    A sequel to One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (1970) set in 1964.

  • Black-and-White World
    Black-and-White World (2015)8.9

    This show is about a time in former Yugoslavia, mostly City of Zagreb at the end of 70' and beginning of 80'. In a dramatic and humorous way it tries to describe a life of this great Yugoslavian era through 3 Generations of people. It's a story of love, family problems with a lot of influence of the Urban Culture and Music scene in Yugoslavia. A time of great music in Yugoslavia such as Rock and New Wave but also somewhat turbulent time right after Tito died.

  • Where the Wild Boars Go
    Where the Wild Boars Go (1971)8.5

    It happens around Zagreb in 1941-1943, during World War II. Two groups of smugglers led by Crni Rok and Veriga, fight for supremacy on the black market. They also have to deal with the Germans, Ustashas, the police and communist illegals.

  • Guardian of the Castle
    Guardian of the Castle (2017)8.0

    Croatia in the 1980-s: in terms of politics, things are happening that will change the map of the Europe by the end of the century. The National Security Service (UDBA) is still one of the most active and most effective intelligent communities in Europe. Boris Biscan, UDBA's old employee, is a witness to all the changes going about - the professionals are replaced by the criminals from UDBA, who are willing to deal with political emigrants, offering them political protection in return for their services. Boris is lost in this new world, and the old one has obviously come to its end.

  • SRAM
    SRAM (2024)7.8

    The Croatian international remake of Norwegian Skam. Following the lives of teenagers that attend high school, Sram explores everyday issues of teenage life, such as their friendships, romantic relationships and mental health.

  • The Silence
    The Silence (2021)7.1

    Dramatic events unfold in Croatia and Ukraine. The first girl drowned, the second one died from a drug overdose. The main suspect in these deaths, however, soon turns out to be innocent - and dead too. While detective Vladimir and reporter Stribor struggle to solve these murders in Croatia, the niece of Olga, an Ukrainian philanthropist, goes missing in Kyiv.

  • The Last Socialist Artefact
    The Last Socialist Artefact (2021)7.1

    A businessman and an engineer arrive in a small town to restore an abandoned factory and manufacture a discontinued turbine for a mysterious client.

  • The Paper
    The Paper (2016)6.8

    The last independent newsroom in the country is taken over by a construction magnate for the reasons that have nothing to do with love or respect for journalism.

  • Mountain
    Mountain (2023)6.0

    Procedural drama television series that follows a mountain rescue team. Episodes feature rescue missions ranging from illegal activities, natural disasters, and reckless conduct - to lighter fares such as eternally unprepared tourists.

  • Smoggies
    Smoggies (1982)4.7

    The adventures of a numerous family Vragec, who live in a suburban settlement "Naselak" in Croatia's capital Zagreb.

  • You're Lying, Melita
    You're Lying, Melita (1983)N/A

    "You're lying, Melita" is a Croatian television miniseries from 1983. about a little girl who thinks there's nothing wrong with choosing not to tell the truth. Based on a short novel by Ivan Kušan.

  • Dora
    Dora (1993)N/A

    Dora is Croatia's national selection for Eurovision.

  • Stormy Silence
    Stormy Silence (1997)N/A

    The series focuses on the Croatian struggle for independence, dating as far back as 1895.

  • Odmori se, zaslužio si
    Odmori se, zaslužio si (2006)N/A

  • Missing
    Missing (2020)N/A

    After a military operation of limited operation, six Croatian soldiers (Prka, Sikira, Nervoza, Gradski, Delon and Pape) remained behind the enemy lines for 10 days before being cut off from the enemy lines. Soldiers have not known each other all their lives and have been brought together by war. People of different profiles meet.

  • NDH
    NDH (2021)N/A

    A 12-episode documentary series about the Independent State of Croatia.

  • Metropolitans
    Metropolitans (2022)N/A

    A year and a half after a strong earthquake and the pandemic starting, tenants from the damaged old city center move to the outskirts of the city. Tensions rise between people irritated by their own differences and by change.

  • The One and Only
    The One and Only (2022)N/A

    An intriguing history of Yugoslav nuclear program that proposed to build an atomic bomb and 16 nuclear facilities on Yugoslav soil. Only one project came to fruition, the nuclear power plant in Krsko, Slovenia.