The Best TV Shows on RTS 1

Every RTS 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Our curated list, current as of August 2025, showcases over 20 of RTS 1’s highest-rated series. Eurovision Song Contest and The Written Off represent the pinnacle of RTS 1’s programming, launching in 1956 and 1974. Across the timeline from 1956 to N/A, RTS 1 has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • The Village Is Burning, and the Grandmother Is Combing Her Hair
    The Village Is Burning, and the Grandmother Is Combing Her Hair (2007)10.0

    Selo gori, a baba se češlja is a television series in Serbia. First aired in 2007, the show quickly gained national fame with episodes in its third season averaging approximately 2.9 million viewers. The show was aired on RTS1.

  • The Written Off
    The Written Off (1974)9.0

    "The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV miniseries, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia, originally airing in 1974. Due to its popularity, Radio Television of Serbia has shown reruns of the series ten times, the last re-run starting in 2012. The series has achieved something of a cult status among its audience and still attracts an estimated 3 million viewers with its last rerun. Idea of series derives from exploits of freedom fighters in Belgrade during World War II, and all the characters and events are fictitious.

  • In the Clinch
    In the Clinch (2022)8.5

    At the turning point of his life, 20-year-old Aljoša Kovač is trying to strike a balance between the expectations of his father Velja, the ambitions of his mother Mira, his own hard-to-achieve passion for music, and a love that is nearing its inevitable end.

  • My Father's Murderers
    My Father's Murderers (2016)8.3

    The action series begins when the main character, a young police inspector Aleksandar Jakovljevic, despite its problematic behavior, receives an important case - killed the daughter of a prominent man unit whose company is building the largest residential - commercial complex in the region. The investigation goes in that direction, or even torn Aleksandar their problems, nothing leaves the case and digging into every aspect of life of the murdered girl, unaware of the danger which is exposed because someone cares about is to cover up the killing as quickly as possible. Aleksandar tortured and personal pain of the never solved the murder of his father Mileta also a police inspector when he discovers that the murder may be linked both to him solve the murder of a young girl becomes a mission. he don't know who to trust along the way, whether your boss and best friend of his dead father, police chief Marjanovic, Mirko whether colleagues or two women in his life, Mary - the public prosecutor with whom he related, while in his heart does not pick up a young scientist Jelena. While all the risks and desperately searching for the truth, they will not know how it can be really painful.

  • Happy People
    Happy People (1993)8.0

    The intertwined lives of numerous characters set in 1990s Belgrade who all try to live happily during rather unhappy times.

  • The Roots
    The Roots (2018)8.0

    The story of fictional Katić family. Vukašin returns home from the studies in France to tell his father Aćim and brother Đorđe that he plans to marry the daughter of his father's political opponent and enemy. Aćim threatens to wipe him out from the will and intricate family relations come to light. Đorđe and his wife have problems, because after 15 years of marriage they still have no children.

  • Black Sun
    Black Sun (2017)7.9

    A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.

  • The Group
    The Group (2019)7.7

    Dragan Miletić Gaga, an experienced inspector of the third department for blood crimes, has specific working methods that many people do not like. Persistent, stubborn, thorough, he persists in his intention to solve an old case. The moment when a famous Belgrade criminal, who is his obsession, is killed, is not the end for him - on the contrary, everything is just beginning. Continuing his search, Gaga's investigation will lead to minors who have been dragged into a much more dangerous game by petty dealer jobs. This will open Pandora's box from which new problems, new entanglements and new unresolved situations will fly out.

  • South Wind
    South Wind (2020)7.7

    A young member of a gang in Belgrade puts his family in danger when he angers a mafia boss.

  • 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.

  • Morning Changes Everything
    Morning Changes Everything (2018)7.2

    Lack of money, inability to find a permanent job, living with parents or roommates, unsettled love relationships — this is how the life of most young people in Serbia could be described. Through the four friends' struggle with the life challenges, the series also tries to evoke the spirit of Belgrade today: it talks about those who live in it, those who leave it, but also those who return to it.

  • Open Doors
    Open Doors (1994)7.0

    Otvorena vrata, is a Serbian comedy television series filmed in 1994-1995. Broadcast on state television RTS, it ran for 2 seasons featuring a regular family living in Belgrade during the 1990s. The show was created by Biljana Srbljanović and Miloš Radović, starring Vesna Trivalić, Milan Gutović, Bogdan Diklić, Nikola Đuričko, Sofija Jović, Bojana Maljević, Olivera Marković and Zoran Cvijanović, with guest stars such as: Mirjana Karanović, Nikola Simić, Seka Sablić, Branka Katić, Mira Stupica. The show had many reruns over the following years, and acquired a cult following. In spring of 2012, after the Serbian presidential election results were announced, Bojana Maljević announced on her Twitter account that she and Biljana Srbljanović were thinking about doing another season of the show. In the following days the idea of the third season was officially confirmed and members of the original cast started announcing that they would take part in the project.

  • Underneath
    Underneath (2020)6.2

    Facing his own past, an investigator unravels the mystery behind three cruel, ritualistic murders.

  • Operation Sabre
    Operation Sabre (2024)6.1

    Belgrade, 2003. When Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is assassinated, the country plunges into chaos, and the authorities' response is to introduce a state of emergency. A turning point in recent Serbian history through the perspective of a journalist, a police officer, and a criminal.

  • White Ship
    White Ship (2006)6.0

    The story is about funny experiences of a politician named Srećko Šojić, played by Milan Gutović.

  • The Bootmen
    The Bootmen (N/A)5.5

    A powerful lyrical story about the sergeant of the former Yugoslav Army Zika Kurjak, from childhood in miners' home, through military days, to severe depression, imprisonment and the metropolitan madness. Kurjak, the personification of human kindness, who is impaired and disturbed, as an old and ornate in the hospital, speaks in detail about his life. Through this searing story of sergeant Zika Kurjak and his life, some of the crucial historical circumstances of the 20th century are being blunted, as well as the fate of the heroic Serbian army, which becomes part of the new system after unification, and which the system is gently destroying leaving individuals individually fighting for it and prevent inevitable decay.

  • The Family
    The Family (2021)5.0

    The story takes place around 2001, which follows the last 48 hours of Slobodan Milošević's life together with his family at large until his arrest and subsequent extradition to The Hague.

  • The Nemanjić Dynasty: The Birth of the Kingdom
    The Nemanjić Dynasty: The Birth of the Kingdom (2018)N/A

    Story about the most influential Serbian dynasty of the Middle Ages.

  • The Heroes of Our Time
    The Heroes of Our Time (2019)N/A

    A well-educated family man realizes that his life is in crisis. Could the next generation do better?

  • Beovizija
    Beovizija (N/A)N/A

    Serbian music festival used as the national selection for Serbia's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest.