The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from September 2025 that includes over 20 unique series. Notable series such as Eurovision Song Contest and Passerelle from RTP1 first graced the screens in 1956 and 1988. From 1956 through to 2022, RTP1 has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television 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.

  • 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)6.4

    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

  • 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

  • A Banqueira do Povo
    A Banqueira do Povo (1993)N/A

  • Verão Quente
    Verão Quente (1993)N/A

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

  • Desencontros
    Desencontros (1995)N/A

  • Roseira Brava
    Roseira Brava (1996)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

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

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

  • A Senhora das Águas
    A Senhora das Águas (2001)N/A

  • Vila Faia
    Vila Faia (2008)N/A