The Best TV Shows on RTP1
Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst
With its programming history stretching from 1956 to 2015, RTP1 offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. Highlighting RTP1’s quality programming, Eurovision Song Contest and Festival da Canção stand out, premiering in 1956 and 1964. Check out the most acclaimed shows on RTP1, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for July 2025.
Tell Me How It Happened (2007)8.7Television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.
Os Filhos do Rock (2013)7.3A series about the phenomenon of rock and roll in Portugal during the 1980's.
Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.2The 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.
A Minha Sogra é Uma Bruxa (2002)7.0
Donos Disto Tudo (2015)0.8
Festival da Canção (1964)N/AFestival da Canção or Festival RTP da Canção is the name given to the national festival, produced and broadcast by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal to choose the Portuguese entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Vila Faia (1982)N/A
Ricardina e Marta (1989)N/A
Verão Quente (1993)N/A
Nico d'Obra (1993)N/A
Na Paz dos Anjos (1994)N/A
Desencontros (1995)N/A
Primeiro Amor (1996)N/A
Vidas de Sal (1996)N/A
Roseira Brava (1996)N/A
Filhos do Vento (1997)N/A
Ajuste de Contas (2000)N/A
A Senhora das Águas (2001)N/A
Um Estranho em Casa (2002)N/A
Father by Chance (2009)N/AAn unlikely love with a happy ending... At age 40, Miguel is at the top of his career as a plastic surgeon, having reached the fame and fortune he worked so hard for. He’s a hopeless bachelor, never committing to any real relationship. This is not just by choice, his situation is a result of never having met his parents and being raised in a children’s home. But, overnight, a simple phone call will change his life entirely, making him recall a point in his life that he’d rather forget. His best friend from the institution was just killed in a car crash along with his wife, but left written instructions behind stating that, if something should happen to him, Miguel should be given custody of his three children, 12-year-old Simão, 8-year-old Jaime and 6-year-old Beatriz. Initially, Miguel will try to dismiss himself from any responsibility but, after meeting the kids, he realizes that he has no choice but to bring them home.