The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Showcasing over 20 shows from 1956 up until 2022, RTP1 stands as a beacon of television excellence. Highlighting RTP1’s quality programming, Eurovision Song Contest and Já Está stand out, premiering in 1956 and 1987. Dive into our updated selection of RTP1’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of April 2026.

  • Tell Me How It Happened
    Tell Me How It Happened (2007)8.7

    Television 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.

  • Pôr do Sol
    Pôr do Sol (2021)8.6

    Love, passion, mystery, betrayal makes the days of the Pôr do Sol estate. The Bourbon de Linhaça family owns the Pôr do Sol estate, but not everything is rosy...

  • Taskmaster Portugal
    Taskmaster Portugal (2022)8.6

    Five public figures are challenged by “Taskmaster” Vasco Palmeirim and his assistant Nuno Markl to overcome a series of fun tests with a small dose of madness.

  • 3 Women
    3 Women (2018)8.0

    A historical fiction series that, from the biographies and cultural and civic intervention of the poet Natalia Correia, the editor Snu Abecassis and the journalist Vera Lagoa (pseudonym of Maria Armanda Falcão), recalls the last years of the Estado Novo (Second Republic) - 1961 to 1973 - from the beginning of the colonial War to the eve of the April Revolution.

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.2

    The 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 Herdade
    A Herdade (2020)7.0

  • Mysteries of Lisbon
    Mysteries of Lisbon (2011)6.4

    The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)

  • Filha da Lei
    Filha da Lei (2017)6.3

    Filha da Lei, a criminal series on a Chief Inspector, Isabel Garcia, and the investigation of the most important police case in Portugal in the last 20 years. Garcia is faced with the greatest challenge of her career when she is assigned to lead the Investigation of the violent serial murders that devastate the city. Samuel Lopes, Trainee Inspector with a degree in Criminal Psychology, joins the Garcia Brigade where he will have to earn his place and the respect of the most experienced inspectors. The interaction with the Trainee Inspector helps Garcia to better understand his daughter Sara, a 16-year-old teenager who was married to the implacable journalist Jaime.

  • Silent Cargo
    Silent Cargo (2022)6.3

    November 2019. A semi-submersible loaded with three tons of cocaine is seized off the Galician coast after having crossed the Atlantic. The captain, Nando, a promising young amateur boxer, travels accompanied by a Brazilian mechanic and a Colombian hitman. Three strangers locked up for almost a month in a claustrophobic handmade boat.

  • The Spy
    The Spy (2020)5.0

    The story of Shell, one of several spy networks operating in Portugal during the Second World War. Directed by the British who operated in Portugal between 1941 and 1942, it had a plan to destroy infrastructures and act as a counterintelligence unit in case the country was invaded by the Germans.

  • Já Está
    Já Está (1987)N/A

  • Passerelle
    Passerelle (1988)N/A

    The soap opera tells the story of two families: Cardoso and Guimarães whose bosses are, one of them, bank manager and the other owner of a textile factory, linked to the world of fashion.

  • Parabéns
    Parabéns (1992)N/A

  • Cinzas
    Cinzas (1992)N/A

  • Verão Quente
    Verão Quente (1993)N/A

  • Na Paz dos Anjos
    Na Paz dos Anjos (1994)N/A

  • Filhos do Vento
    Filhos do Vento (1997)N/A

  • Terra Mãe
    Terra Mãe (1998)N/A

  • A Senhora das Águas
    A Senhora das Águas (2001)N/A

  • Um Estranho em Casa
    Um Estranho em Casa (2002)N/A