The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of April 2026, our compilation of RTP1’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Among RTP1’s finest offerings are Eurovision Song Contest and Parabéns, which debuted in 1956 and 1992, respectively. RTP1 has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1956 all the way to 2025.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Riscos
    Riscos (1997)5.0

  • Broken Spies
    Broken Spies (2025)4.2

    The world is at war. While Portugal seems like an oasis by the Atlantic, its glamorous casinos and secret hideouts become the stage for a network of daring women spies, trading information that could turn the tide of the conflict.

  • 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

  • Zona+
    Zona+ (1994)N/A

  • Primeiro Amor
    Primeiro Amor (1996)N/A

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

  • Roseira Brava
    Roseira Brava (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

  • A Lenda da Garça
    A Lenda da Garça (1999)N/A

  • Ajuste de Contas
    Ajuste de Contas (2000)N/A

  • Vila Faia
    Vila Faia (2008)N/A