The Best TV Shows on RTP1

Every RTP1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Our curated list, current as of June 2025, showcases over 20 of RTP1’s highest-rated series. Leading the pack on RTP1 are Eurovision Song Contest and Vila Faia, with their initial broadcasts in 1956 and 1982. Boasting a rich catalog, RTP1 features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 1956 to 2018.

  • Sim, Chef!
    Sim, Chef! (2017)10.0

    Vítor Guerreiro, the authoritarian and eccentric Chef of the uber-chic Lisbon restaurant “Divina Comédia” hires Manuel, a bumbling interviewee from Braga, in order to irritate the manager Kika.

  • 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 Filhos do Rock
    Os Filhos do Rock (2013)7.3

    A series about the phenomenon of rock and roll in Portugal during the 1980's.

  • 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.

  • Excursões AirLino
    Excursões AirLino (2018)6.0

    A comedy through the world of excursions ... with a somewhat uncertain destination! Welcome to the world of cheap excursions.

  • Madre Paula
    Madre Paula (2017)4.7

    The story of the forbidden romance between Paula, a nun of the Convent of Odivelas, and King D. João V. A love without limits, which takes place in the eighteenth century, and made the King ignore common sense and take the nun as a lover, a confidant, and a counselor. Based on the historical novel by Patrícia Muller.

  • 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

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

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

  • Ajuste de Contas
    Ajuste de Contas (2000)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.