The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of January 2026, we’ve curated over 20 of RTP1’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure. Notable series such as Eurovision Song Contest and Festival da Canção from RTP1 first graced the screens in 1956 and 1964. Across the timeline from 1956 to 2022, RTP1 has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A Minha Sogra é Uma Bruxa
    A Minha Sogra é Uma Bruxa (2002)8.0

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.3

    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.

  • Until Life Do Us Part
    Until Life Do Us Part (2021)7.1

    Three generations of a family living together in an idyllic villa juggle the demands of their wedding planning business and their own personal crises.

  • 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.

  • Festival da Canção
    Festival da Canção (1964)N/A

    Festival 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.

  • 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.

  • Cinzas
    Cinzas (1992)N/A

  • Nico d'Obra
    Nico d'Obra (1993)N/A

  • Verão Quente
    Verão Quente (1993)N/A

  • Sozinhos em Casa
    Sozinhos em Casa (1993)N/A

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

  • Vidas de Sal
    Vidas de Sal (1996)N/A

  • Primeiro Amor
    Primeiro Amor (1996)N/A

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

  • A Grande Aposta
    A Grande Aposta (1997)N/A

  • Terra Mãe
    Terra Mãe (1998)N/A

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

  • Father by Chance
    Father by Chance (2009)N/A

    An 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.