Icons of Rai Play, Sanremo Music Festival and Le donne del Tenente Sheridan made their debut in 1951 and 1965, setting industry standards. Rai Play’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 1951 to 2024. Our curated list, current as of August 2025, showcases over 20 of Rai Play’s highest-rated series.
On duty at the Treviso Police Headquarters, Stucky is an apparently absent-minded inspector, often underestimated, who is guided by his instinct, curiosity and out-of-the-box thinking. He appears to be modeled after Lieutenant Colombo, down to the trenchcoat and the ever-present cigar.
The 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.
Rome, 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.
Claudio 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.
In 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.
Nico 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.
Laura, a young noblewoman who grew up in a convent, is given in marriage to the baron of Carini, an overbearing and lustful man. The life of the young baroness seems destined for unhappiness until she meets Luca Corbara, who arrives in the country to find his origins.
It 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.