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The Best TV Shows on ORTF Télévision

Every ORTF Télévision Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Highlighting ORTF Télévision’s quality programming, Cinépanorama and La caméra explore le temps stand out, premiering in 1956 and 1957. ORTF Télévision’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 1956 to 1974. As of March 2025, our compilation of ORTF Télévision’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows.

  • La caméra explore le temps
    La caméra explore le temps (1957)9.0

  • The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
    The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret (1967)8.4

  • Cinépanorama
    Cinépanorama (1956)8.0

  • À bout portant
    À bout portant (1968)8.0

  • Le Grand Échiquier
    Le Grand Échiquier (1972)8.0

  • At Theatre Tonight
    At Theatre Tonight (1966)7.5

    At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.

  • The Aeronauts
    The Aeronauts (1967)7.5

    The Aeronauts was a French children's TV series about two fighter jet pilots and their adventures. It was based on a comic book series by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo. Made by French production company Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française between 1967 and 1970, its original French title was Les chevaliers du ciel. The three seasons were originally filmed in colors but the first season was broadcast on French TV from September 1967 in black and white, as French television was only in black and white at the time. All three seasons, however, were later released in colors when the series appeared in a 6-DVD box in the early 2000s. This 6-DVD set is now sold out and used copies fetch high prices. It was dubbed into English, retitled The Aeronauts and shown on UK children's TV in the early 1970s. In 1972 Rick Jones released a single of the anglicised theme tune. In 1976 a version dubbed into Afrikaans and titled Mirage was shown by the SABC in South Africa.

  • Les Shadoks
    Les Shadoks (1968)7.2

    Les Shadoks is an animated television series created by French cartoonist Jacques Rouxel which caused a sensation in France when it was first broadcast in 1968-1974. The Shadoks were bird-like in appearance, were characterised by ruthlessness and stupidity and inhabited a two dimensional planet. Another set of creatures in the Shadok canon are the Gibis, who are the opposite to the Shadoks in that they are intelligent but vulnerable and also inhabit a two-dimensional planet. Rouxel claims that the term Shadok obtains some derivation from Captain Haddock of Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin and the Gibis are essentially GBs. The Shadoks were a significant literary, cultural and philosophical phenomenon in France. Even today, the French occasionally use satirical comparisons with the Shadoks for policies and attitudes that they consider absurd. The Shadoks were noted for mottos such as: ⁕"Why do it the easy way when you can do it the hard way?" ⁕"When one tries continuously, one ends up succeeding. Thus, the more one fails, the greater the chance that it will work."

  • Thierry la Fronde
    Thierry la Fronde (1963)7.0

    Thierry la Fronde was a French television series that aired in 1963–66 on the television station, ORTF original script by Jean-Claude Deret. Dubbed into English, it was shown internationally in the 1960s, including in Canada, where it was referred to under the original name, and also as The King's Outlaw. It was shown as well in Poland as Thierry Śmiałek. On ABC in Australia, it was called The King's Outlaw. In the Netherlands, 32 of the 52 episodes were shown in 1967 as Thierry de Slingeraar, as a Netherlands Television Service programme.

  • Les Globe-trotters
    Les Globe-trotters (1966)7.0

  • Thibaud ou les Croisades
    Thibaud ou les Croisades (1968)7.0

  • Aglaé et Sidonie
    Aglaé et Sidonie (1969)7.0

  • Barbapapa
    Barbapapa (1974)7.0

    The adventures of Barbapapa and Barbama and their seven children, where they search for their place in the world, while helping humans and animals.

  • Belle et Sébastien
    Belle et Sébastien (1965)6.8

  • L'Homme du Picardie
    L'Homme du Picardie (1968)6.5

  • Midi trente
    Midi trente (1972)6.0

  • Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
    Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958)N/A

    Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series

  • Foncouverte
    Foncouverte (1965)N/A

  • Vive la vie
    Vive la vie (1966)N/A

  • Nans le berger
    Nans le berger (1974)N/A