The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of April 2026, our compilation of RTP1’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Premiering in 1956 and 1992, Eurovision Song Contest and Parabéns are among RTP1’s most celebrated shows. RTP1’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 1956 to 2022.

  • 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.

  • Pôr do Sol
    Pôr do Sol (2021)8.6

    Love, passion, mystery, betrayal makes the days of the Pôr do Sol estate. The Bourbon de Linhaça family owns the Pôr do Sol estate, but not everything is rosy...

  • 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)7.2

    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)6.4

    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)6.3

    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.

  • Riscos
    Riscos (1997)5.0

  • Parabéns
    Parabéns (1992)N/A

  • Verão Quente
    Verão Quente (1993)N/A

  • Zona+
    Zona+ (1994)N/A

  • Desencontros
    Desencontros (1995)N/A

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

  • A Grande Aposta
    A Grande Aposta (1997)N/A

  • Filhos do Vento
    Filhos do Vento (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

  • Maternidade
    Maternidade (2011)N/A

  • Old Friends
    Old Friends (2011)N/A

    Freedom is a state of mind... Carlos, José and Matias are three old friends who have known each other since childhood. José lives with his daughter, his son in law and his nine-year-old grandson Pedro. Being a grandfather is his only true source of happiness. Carlos is retired and spends most of his days tinkering. Matias, on the other hand, is a widower and lives alone and abandoned, as his son is living abroad. Each of them has a strong and contentious character of their own, but they are all joined by a deep friendship. When José is sent to a retirement home, Carlos and Matias set a plan to bust him out. They sneak into the retirement home and take him away from that depressing environment in which he was discarded. They know that they can’t come back home, so they decide to spend a while in Matias’ house up north. But, in the middle of their escape, they find José’s grandson snuck in there. Pedro doesn't want to leave his grandpa and insists on accompanying them in their journey.