The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, RTP1 has aired more than 20 shows between 1956 and 2020. Premiering in 1956 and 1982, Eurovision Song Contest and Vila Faia are among RTP1’s most celebrated shows. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of RTP1’s elite series, with our list refreshed for October 2025.

  • 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)7.3

    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.

  • The Spy
    The Spy (2020)6.5

    The story of Shell, one of several spy networks operating in Portugal during the Second World War. Directed by the British who operated in Portugal between 1941 and 1942, it had a plan to destroy infrastructures and act as a counterintelligence unit in case the country was invaded by the Germans.

  • Vila Faia
    Vila Faia (1982)N/A

  • 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.

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

  • 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

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

  • A Grande Aposta
    A Grande Aposta (1997)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

  • Camilo, O Pendura
    Camilo, O Pendura (2002)N/A

    After the passing of his wife, Camilo, an elderly man, goes to his son and daughter-in-law's house and starts living with them, to their great misfortune.