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 February 2026. RTP1’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 1956 to 2025. Highlighting RTP1’s quality programming, Eurovision Song Contest and Festival da Canção stand out, premiering in 1956 and 1964.

  • 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.

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.1

    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.

  • Cold Haven
    Cold Haven (2025)7.0

    Maria is a Portuguese woman who emigrates to Vestmannaeyjar, a small and remote island in Iceland, in search of a better life for herself and her teenage daughter, Bela. Away from a past marked by domestic violence and deep secrets, she looks for freedom and a place to be herself. Six months after her arrival, Maria is found lifeless. Her violent death shocks the isolated community and exposes the secrets everyone is keeping. The investigation is placed in the hands of Soffía an Icelandic detective who, as she immerses in the investigation, faces her own crossroads, trying to balance professional duty and the ghosts of her past.

  • 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.

  • Got Talent Portugal
    Got Talent Portugal (2015)6.0

    The portuguese adaption of UK's original talent show Britain's Got Talent, a unique format that gives anonymous people, individual or in a group, the chance to show their artistic gifts in the most diverse areas with no age restriction.

  • A Rainha e a Bastarda
    A Rainha e a Bastarda (2022)6.0

    We are in 1320, in the newly formed country we call Portugal. Isabel, the Holy Queen, is the wife of Dinis, the king, and mother of Afonso, the heir, both involved in a civil war that affects everyone.

  • Dry Water
    Dry Water (2020)5.3

  • Duarte e C.ª
    Duarte e C.ª (1985)5.0

    An entertaining and comical detective series featuring over-the-top stories, spectacular chase scenes, and hilarious villains.

  • 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.

  • Verão Quente
    Verão Quente (1993)N/A

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

  • Desencontros
    Desencontros (1995)N/A

  • As Lições do Tonecas
    As Lições do Tonecas (1996)N/A

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

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

  • Esquadra de Polícia
    Esquadra de Polícia (1999)N/A

  • The Voice Portugal
    The Voice Portugal (2011)N/A