The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Dive into our updated selection of RTP1’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of July 2026. Eurovision Song Contest and Festival da Canção represent the pinnacle of RTP1’s programming, launching in 1956 and 1964. Boasting a rich catalog, RTP1 features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 1956 to 2022.

  • Origens
    Origens (1983)10.0

  • Palavras Cruzadas
    Palavras Cruzadas (1987)10.0

  • Desencontros
    Desencontros (1995)10.0

  • A Banqueira do Povo
    A Banqueira do Povo (1993)9.0

  • Roseira Brava
    Roseira Brava (1996)9.0

  • Filhos do Vento
    Filhos do Vento (1997)9.0

  • Major Alvega
    Major Alvega (1998)9.0

  • Ajuste de Contas
    Ajuste de Contas (2000)9.0

  • 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.

  • Verão Quente
    Verão Quente (1993)8.0

  • Os Lobos
    Os Lobos (1998)8.0

  • A Lenda da Garça
    A Lenda da Garça (1999)8.0

  • 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.

  • Vila Faia
    Vila Faia (1982)7.0

  • Na Paz dos Anjos
    Na Paz dos Anjos (1994)7.0

  • Madre Paula
    Madre Paula (2017)4.5

    The story of the forbidden romance between Paula, a nun of the Convent of Odivelas, and King D. João V. A love without limits, which takes place in the eighteenth century, and made the King ignore common sense and take the nun as a lover, a confidant, and a counselor. Based on the historical novel by Patrícia Muller.

  • 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.

  • Vila Faia
    Vila Faia (2008)N/A

  • Old Friends
    Old Friends (2011)N/A

    Freedom is a state of mind... Carlos, José and Matias are three old friends who have known each other since childhood. José lives with his daughter, his son in law and his nine-year-old grandson Pedro. Being a grandfather is his only true source of happiness. Carlos is retired and spends most of his days tinkering. Matias, on the other hand, is a widower and lives alone and abandoned, as his son is living abroad. Each of them has a strong and contentious character of their own, but they are all joined by a deep friendship. When José is sent to a retirement home, Carlos and Matias set a plan to bust him out. They sneak into the retirement home and take him away from that depressing environment in which he was discarded. They know that they can’t come back home, so they decide to spend a while in Matias’ house up north. But, in the middle of their escape, they find José’s grandson snuck in there. Pedro doesn't want to leave his grandpa and insists on accompanying them in their journey.