The Best TV Shows on Rai Play
Every Rai Play Show Ranked From Best To Worst
From 1951 through to 2025, Rai Play has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. Notable series such as Sanremo Music Festival and Le donne del Tenente Sheridan from Rai Play first graced the screens in 1951 and 1965. Our curated list, current as of February 2026, showcases over 20 of Rai Play’s highest-rated series.
Topo Gigio (2020)8.1
Sanremo Music Festival (1951)7.8The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Tutto può succedere (2015)7.8
Bangla The Series (2022)7.7Rome, nowadays. Phaim and Asia are two distant worlds and, at first glance, incompatible. He is Muslim and rooted in Bengali family traditions, she is an atheist and the daughter of separated parents. Yet, despite everything, they love each other. The series is taken from the homonymous film "Bangla", which continues the story.
Caro Marziano (2017)7.5
L'altro ispettore (2025)6.7
Off Grid (2020)6.5Claudio and Silvia Caruana have money, respectability, a 20-year marriage and two children who have never given them trouble. But when Claudio is engulfed in a financial scandal, and the main suspect in his colleague's murder, the family has no choice but to flee, to save themselves and discover the truth.
Redemption (2020)6.5In a nocturnal and hostile Rome, Valerio must investigate the death of his son, an apparently suicide. An investigation that's also a last chance to restore a bond with that son he hadn't seen in years, facing the ghosts of the past.
Lea (2022)6.4
Le donne del Tenente Sheridan (1965)6.0
Spike Team (2010)6.0
Mental (2020)3.8Nico is a 16 year old girl who has in her head a chaos in which she can no longer orient herself, made of anxiety attacks, visions and voices that speak to her. After a hallucinatory episode, she is taken in charge by a psychiatric clinic with the diagnosis of schizophrenia and there she meets Michele, Emma and Daniel. The four boys form a group and face together a difficult, but fundamental, path towards self-knowledge and self-acceptance.
Puccini (2009)N/A
L'Oriana (2015)N/A
The Enchanted Village of Pinocchio (2021)N/AIt follows Pinocchio's adventures in the Enchanted Village with his friends. Their group includes an ogress' daughter, the offspring of an elf, Sleeping Beauty's daughter, Prince Charming's son, and the Big Bad Wolf's son.
Ossi di Seppia - Il rumore della memoria (2021)N/A
Vostro Onore (2022)N/A
Mord mit aussicht (2023)N/A
Non me l'aspettavo - Il basket di Matilde Villa (2025)N/AAt just nineteen years old, Matilde Villa is already a phenomenon in Italian and international basketball: the youngest Italian ever to be drafted by a WNBA team directly from the Italian league, without going through college. Her passion and dedication light up every game, making the power of this sport truly tangible.