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The Best TV Shows on ORF 1

Every ORF 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Our curated list, current as of December 2024, showcases over 20 of ORF 1’s highest-rated series. Scene of the Crime and The Onedin Line represent the pinnacle of ORF 1’s programming, launching in 1970 and 1971. With its programming history stretching from 1970 to 2022, ORF 1 offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows.

  • Romy Award
    Romy Award (1990)9.0

  • Universum
    Universum (1987)8.5

  • Suburbia - Women on the Edge
    Suburbia - Women on the Edge (2015)8.2

    Vienna suburb. Better society. Appearance and reality. A golden cage. But is everything that glitters really gold? Actually, the five "suburban women" of the title couldn't be doing any better in their supposedly perfect, affluent world – could they?

  • Der Bulle von Tölz
    Der Bulle von Tölz (1996)7.8

  • Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall
    Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall (2005)7.3

  • 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.

  • Freud
    Freud (2020)7.2

    Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.

  • Woman of the Dead
    Woman of the Dead (2022)7.2

    In a vengeful quest to find out who killed her husband, a woman ends up exposing her small community's deepest and ugliest secrets.

  • Murder by the Lake
    Murder by the Lake (2014)7.1

    Murder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Filmproduktion in cooperation with the German television broadcaster ZDF and the Austrian television broadcaster ORF. The series is filmed and set in the adjacent towns of Bregenz, Austria, and Lindau, Germany, which are both located on the southeastern shore of Lake Constance.

  • The Onedin Line
    The Onedin Line (1971)6.8

    The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.

  • Alpine Rescue
    Alpine Rescue (2009)6.6

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

  • Das Traumhotel
    Das Traumhotel (2004)6.2

  • 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.

  • Stockinger
    Stockinger (1996)5.5

    Stockinger is an Austrian-made police television drama, with fourteen 45-minute episodes first aired from 1996 to 1997. The series is a spin-off from the popular Austrian television drama Inspector Rex, and focuses on Ernst Stockinger, one of the original members of the Homicide division or Mordkommission in German. Stockinger leaves the series to return to Salzburg where his wife has inherited a dental practice from her late father . He is appointed a Bezirksinspektor at the Landes Gendarmerie, sharing an office with District Inspector Antonella Simoni. Unlike the members of the team in 'Rex', who appear to be self-directed and are seldom seen to answer to senior management, Stockinger reports to Dr Brunner, a philosophising burecratic senior police inspector. Stockinger is portrayed as a clumsy, almost Inspector Clouseau-like character, driving a clapped-out 1973 VW Variant, but single-minded when following up clues.

  • SOKO Kitzbühel
    SOKO Kitzbühel (2001)5.0

    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.

  • Schnell ermittelt
    Schnell ermittelt (2009)4.9

    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...

  • Vienna Crime Squad
    Vienna Crime Squad (2005)4.8

    SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series.

  • Schlosshotel Orth
    Schlosshotel Orth (1996)1.0

    Schlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series.

  • Stöckl
    Stöckl (2013)N/A