The Best TV Shows on ORF III
Every ORF III Show Ranked From Best To Worst
Check out the most acclaimed shows on ORF III, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for October 2025. Highlighting ORF III’s quality programming, The Strauss Dynasty and Phettbergs nette Leit Show stand out, premiering in 1991 and 1994. ORF III has over 20 shows broadcast from as early as 1991 and as recent as 2023.
Phettbergs nette Leit Show (1994)10.0
Austria from Above: Jewels of the Country (2016)4.0Georg Riha is and will remain the master of aerial shots. In this series, Riha uses aerial shots only. In shootings that took several years he flew over almost all of Austria and shows the country's most beautiful places from the aerial perspective during the course of a year.
The Strauss Dynasty (1991)N/AA dramatization of two generations of the Viennese Strauss family, whose dance music and operettas dominated much of Europe and beyond for most of the 19th century.
- Les derniers jours d'une icône (2007)N/A
- Erlesen (2010)N/A
- Berggespräche (2010)N/A
Hollywood in Vienna (2011)N/AHollywood in Vienna is an annual film music gala hosted in the Vienna Concert Hall where the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award is presented.
- Science Talk (2012)N/A
Aus dem Archiv (2012)N/A
DENK mit KULTUR (2014)N/A- MERYNS sprechzimmer (2016)N/A
- Kabarett im Turm (2016)N/A
- Baumeister der Republik (2016)N/A
- Themenmontag: Der Talk (2017)N/A
- Die Tafelrunde (2018)N/A
- 3 x 3 – Quiz mit Klasse (2019)N/A
Soundtrack Österreich (2019)N/A
Dinner für Zwei (2020)N/A- Wir waren jung und brauchten das Geld (2022)N/A
Österreich – Die ganze Geschichte (2023)N/A