The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Among RTP1’s finest offerings are Eurovision Song Contest and Vila Faia, which debuted in 1956 and 1982, respectively. A broadcaster of distinction, RTP1 has aired more than 20 shows between 1956 and 2018. As of June 2025, we’ve curated over 20 of RTP1’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure.

  • 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.

  • 3 Women
    3 Women (2018)7.8

    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.

  • Os Contemporâneos
    Os Contemporâneos (2008)7.3

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Gato Fedorento  - Diz que é uma Espécie de Magazine
    Gato Fedorento - Diz que é uma Espécie de Magazine (2006)5.8

  • Vila Faia
    Vila Faia (1982)N/A

  • Ricardina e Marta
    Ricardina e Marta (1989)N/A

  • Verão Quente
    Verão Quente (1993)N/A

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

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

  • Desencontros
    Desencontros (1995)N/A

  • Primeiro Amor
    Primeiro Amor (1996)N/A

  • Roseira Brava
    Roseira Brava (1996)N/A

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

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

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

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

  • Vila Faia
    Vila Faia (2008)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.