The Best TV Shows on Rai Play

Every Rai Play Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, Rai Play has aired more than 20 shows between 1951 and 2024. Sanremo Music Festival and Le donne del Tenente Sheridan represent the pinnacle of Rai Play’s programming, launching in 1951 and 1965. Dive into our updated selection of Rai Play’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of February 2026.

  • Topo Gigio
    Topo Gigio (2020)8.1

  • Tutto può succedere
    Tutto può succedere (2015)7.9

  • Sanremo Music Festival
    Sanremo Music Festival (1951)7.8

    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.

  • Bangla The Series
    Bangla The Series (2022)7.7

    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.

  • Caro Marziano
    Caro Marziano (2017)7.5

  • Hot Ones Italia
    Hot Ones Italia (2024)7.5

  • Redemption
    Redemption (2020)6.5

    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.

  • Off Grid
    Off Grid (2020)6.5

    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.

  • Lea
    Lea (2022)6.4

  • Le donne del Tenente Sheridan
    Le donne del Tenente Sheridan (1965)6.0

  • Spike Team
    Spike Team (2010)6.0

  • Io non mi arrendo
    Io non mi arrendo (2016)6.0

  • Mental
    Mental (2020)3.8

    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.

  • Gli amigos
    Gli amigos (2021)N/A

    Series of promotional shorts for Parmigiano Reggiano.

  • The Enchanted Village of Pinocchio
    The Enchanted Village of Pinocchio (2021)N/A

    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.

  • Ossi di Seppia - Il rumore della memoria
    Ossi di Seppia - Il rumore della memoria (2021)N/A

  • Dragonero - I Paladini
    Dragonero - I Paladini (2022)N/A

  • Mord mit aussicht
    Mord mit aussicht (2023)N/A

  • OGM Travels
    OGM Travels (2024)N/A

  • Spooky Wolf
    Spooky Wolf (2024)N/A

    What if the Big Bad Wolf is neither big nor bad, but a teenage detective? So the sea has disappeared? So your mouth has been stolen? So it’s Christmas every day? Sounds like a case for Spooky Wolf, helped by three eccentric little pigs and Cherry, a very unusual Red Riding Hood. Together, they solve the craziest cases in the most improbable of cities, Fantaville. Fantaville is a city beyond the world of fairytales, halfway between reality and fantasy, where even the most improbable characters and plot twists are believable: a loser of a vampire, a thief of absurd things, a lamp genie who trades in all kinds of wishes… in Fantaville, anything goes. And Spooky Wolf can’t wait to solve its absurd mysteries and track down its weirdest and craziest criminals!