The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

From 1956 through to 2022, RTP1 has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. Our curated list, current as of September 2025, showcases over 20 of RTP1’s highest-rated series. Eurovision Song Contest and Passerelle represent the pinnacle of RTP1’s programming, launching in 1956 and 1988.

  • 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.

  • Mysteries of Lisbon
    Mysteries of Lisbon (2011)6.9

    The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)

  • 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.

  • 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

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

  • Roseira Brava
    Roseira Brava (1996)N/A

  • Primeiro Amor
    Primeiro Amor (1996)N/A

  • Nós os Ricos
    Nós os Ricos (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