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The Best TV Shows on ORF 1

Every ORF 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of January 2025, our compilation of ORF 1’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Icons of ORF 1, Scene of the Crime and Musikantenstadl made their debut in 1970 and 1981, setting industry standards. ORF 1 has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1970 all the way to 2022.

  • Romy Award
    Romy Award (1990)9.0

  • Tom Turbo
    Tom Turbo (1993)8.5

  • Tohuwabohu
    Tohuwabohu (1990)8.3

    Tohuwabohu is an Austrian television series.

  • Science Busters
    Science Busters (2011)8.0

  • Vienna Blood
    Vienna Blood (2019)7.3

    Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around the grand cafes and opera houses of 1900s Vienna.

  • Inspector Rex
    Inspector Rex (1994)7.2

    After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.

  • SOKO Linz
    SOKO Linz (2022)7.0

  • Alpine Rescue
    Alpine Rescue (2009)6.6

    Die Bergwacht is a German mountain rescue television series, broadcast since 26 November, 2009 on ZDF.

  • Scene of the Crime
    Scene of the Crime (1970)6.1

    Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

  • Willkommen Österreich
    Willkommen Österreich (2007)6.0

    Austrian Talk Show with Gags Gags Gags and two fantastic guests.

  • Vienna Crime Squad
    Vienna Crime Squad (2005)4.5

    SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.

  • Schnell ermittelt
    Schnell ermittelt (2009)4.4

    Angelika Schnell is the head of homicide and living proof that chaos is just another form of order. Nevertheless, she is a brilliant investigator - even if her methods are sometimes quite unconventional: In addition to hard facts, she also allows her distinctive inner voice to apply, which often leads to incomprehensible but very important conclusions...

  • SOKO Kitzbühel
    SOKO Kitzbühel (2001)4.2

    SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties.

  • Schlosshotel Orth
    Schlosshotel Orth (1996)1.0

    Schlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series.

  • Musikantenstadl
    Musikantenstadl (1981)N/A

    Musikantenstadl is a live television entertainment program broadcast in the German language throughout Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. It features Austrian, Swiss, and German popular folk music, international pop and folk music as well as interviews and comedy. As a production of Eurovision, is co-produced by the Österreichischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Schweizer Fernsehen. Aside from the live television broadcasts it also tours in Austria and Germany as live concerts. It is currently hosted by Andy Borg and its location of broadcast varies between towns in different regions in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. The show could be compared to being a much larger German version of the UK 1970's entertainment show The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club. However Musikantenstadl consists of a large ski lodge Set construction and not a Social Club.

  • Die Millionenshow
    Die Millionenshow (2000)N/A

    "Die Millionenshow" is the Austrian version of the television quiz “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”. It is produced in Studio 8 of nobeo GmbH in Hürth near Cologne and broadcast by ORF, with the episodes running every Monday on ORF 2. Every two weeks, three episodes are usually recorded on Wednesday and Thursday.

  • Im Zentrum
    Im Zentrum (2007)N/A

  • Die Lottosieger
    Die Lottosieger (2009)N/A

    Die Lottosieger is an Austrian comedy television series. It was produced from 2008 to 2011 and broadcast from 2009 to 2012 on ORF 1. Die Lottosieger is about a family, that, over night, becomes rich, by winning the lottery.

  • Stöckl
    Stöckl (2013)N/A

  • Thema
    Thema (2018)N/A