The Best TV Shows on NPO 1

Every NPO 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Dive into our updated selection of NPO 1’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of July 2025. Highlighting NPO 1’s quality programming, Eurovision Song Contest and Oppassen!!! stand out, premiering in 1956 and 1991. NPO 1 has over 20 shows broadcast from as early as 1956 and as recent as 2023.

  • Dit zijn wij
    Dit zijn wij (2019)10.0

  • Junior Eurovision Song Contest
    Junior Eurovision Song Contest (2003)9.5

    The Junior Eurovision Song Contest, often shortened to JESC, Junior Eurovision or Junior EuroSong, is a song competition which has been organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) annually since 2003 and is open exclusively to broadcasters that are members of the EBU. It is held in a different European city each year, however the same city can host the contest more than once.

  • Dag & Nacht
    Dag & Nacht (2023)9.0

    This series takes place at a cutting-edge city hospital. The first season follows Ella, a skilled obstetrician who leads a team of fellow medical professionals. Together, they must perform under immense pressure. The healthcare providers and their patients represent all walks of life and amidst their many triumphs and struggles, laughter and tears occur in equal measure. The thin line between one's personal life and one's professional life becomes increasingly blurred when working such long hours, making conflict unavoidable. But in the end, there is one thing that unites everyone on this parallel hospital-universe: the universal human experience of new life, fragile yet filled with hope and potential.

  • Even tot Hier
    Even tot Hier (2019)8.8

    Niels van der Laan and Jeroen Woe literally make a performance of the week every week.

  • Oogappels
    Oogappels (2019)8.2

    Four different families in a medium-sized Dutch city are followed. Their children attend the same high school. The parents all have their own way of raising children. But for all of them it is true that they set the bar very high for themselves and their little ones: life must be perfect above all!

  • Wie is de Mol?
    Wie is de Mol? (1999)8.0

    Ten candidates have to complete assignments to earn money. However, one of the group members is the Mole. The Mole's goal is to make the assignments fail and keep the amount of money earned as low as possible. The other candidates do not know who the Mole is and need to unmask them. At the end of every episode, the candidates take a multiple-choice test about the mole's identity. The person who gives the least amount of correct answers is "executed" and must leave. This process continues until only two contestants and the Mole remain. The winner is the person with the most correct answers in the final test and they get all of the money earned in previous stages of the game.

  • Keyzer en de Boer Advocaten
    Keyzer en de Boer Advocaten (2005)8.0

  • Spoorloos verdwenen
    Spoorloos verdwenen (2006)8.0

    A special team searches for missing persons.

  • Penoza
    Penoza (2010)7.7

    Carmen, the daughter of a notorious Amsterdam drug lord, reluctantly takes charge of the family's smuggling business in order to clear her husband's debts.

  • Flikken Rotterdam
    Flikken Rotterdam (2016)7.7

    Flikken Rotterdam takes place in Rotterdam, and is after Flikken Maastricht the second Dutch spin-off of the Flemish show Flikken.

  • Swanenburg
    Swanenburg (2021)7.5

    When patriarch Jack Praal is confronted with his biggest fear and his youngest son Dirk is linked to the death of a woman, the family gets trapped into a web of intrigue and betrayal. During the course of five weeks the series follows the family members who put their own interests aside in order to save everything. But not everyone is playing a fair game, which seems to result in the inevitable downfall of the once so close Praal family.

  • De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach
    De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach (2022)7.4

    Arjen Lubach dives through the issues of the day past inspiring guests to the bottom of the news. Everyone always wants to go from the issues of the day to deepening. Arjen is really looking forward to the issues of the day.

  • 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.

  • Dokter Deen
    Dokter Deen (2012)7.0

  • Oppassen!!!
    Oppassen!!! (1991)6.7

    Sitcom about two grandfathers taking care of their grandchildren, so their children can focus on their careers.

  • Dit Was Het Nieuws
    Dit Was Het Nieuws (1996)6.5

    Dit was het nieuws is a Dutch television program of RTL4, wherein two teams give a satirical account of the previous week's news. The program has the form of a game show in which two teams, each with a team leader and weekly guest, compete against each other. The scoring is not serious; after the first round, for instance, the score is always 4-4.

  • Hunted
    Hunted (2016)4.8

    Can you just disappear nowadays? 12 contestants need to stay out of a hunter team of experts for 21 days. the 'hunters' have experience in police, military and private sector tracking. Leading detective Sander Schaepman hunts the 'fugitives' from his headquarters.

  • NOS Studio Voetbal
    NOS Studio Voetbal (2002)0.5

  • Maestro
    Maestro (2012)N/A

  • Matthijs gaat door
    Matthijs gaat door (2020)N/A

    Matthijs looks back in surprise. With humor, music and other surprises.